Originally Posted by
Ancient Observer
Does anyone know of a brand of inexpensive printer that does not pull this nasty trick?
I've been out of the Ink jet thing since moving onto laser years ago, & the same may not be true of of ink jet, but typically with a cheap laser you pay through the nose for consumables, with a dearer laser you may pay less for the consumables.
I got that tired of shelling out for colour cartridges on ink jets (which either lasted the blink of any eye, dried or otherwise failed) that I tipped the home ink jet for a B&W laser - it's cost a fraction of what the ink jet did & nobody has moaned about the lack of colour.
It's all nonsense - wife recently needed 4 toner carts & an imaging unit for her about 1 year old printer at work & it was cheaper to buy the same printer new (with high capacity toners) - planned obsolescence / capitalism / craziness.......