Gave in to disposability
Dec. 17th, 2008 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyI gave up and ordered another Brother color laser printer last night. At $200, I'll be saving money even if I just take the toner carts out and throw the printer away (the 4 carts it comes with are $270 by themselves). In reality I'll find somewhere to stash the thing as a backup. At our level of use, two carts of each color plus refills when they are available (soon I think) should last us a lot of years.
If you're interested, it's a nice printer for $200, though it's a bit large. I took that as a plus personally; the tiny little printers probably have tiny little gears to break, tiny underpowered motors, and tiny, tight-turned paper paths that are prone to jam. Also the really small ones have ridiculously small toner cartridges; the little Samsung I looked at prints less than 1000 pages per set of cartridges.
And if anyone has a Canon inkjet printer that takes the type BCI-6 carts, I've got a whole box of refill ink and supplies you can have, just ask. Our printhead finally failed after a number of years.
If you're interested, it's a nice printer for $200, though it's a bit large. I took that as a plus personally; the tiny little printers probably have tiny little gears to break, tiny underpowered motors, and tiny, tight-turned paper paths that are prone to jam. Also the really small ones have ridiculously small toner cartridges; the little Samsung I looked at prints less than 1000 pages per set of cartridges.
And if anyone has a Canon inkjet printer that takes the type BCI-6 carts, I've got a whole box of refill ink and supplies you can have, just ask. Our printhead finally failed after a number of years.
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Date: 2008-12-19 07:34 pm (UTC)