Comment on Has HP printers always been this bad?
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months agoMy problem is I only need a printer maybe once or twice a year so it’s a bit difficult to justify spending hundreds of dollars for a device that will probably only pay for itself back in about a decade.
It may honestly just be worth the hassle I’m going to the library when I want to print something. Not they they don’t have crap printers as well.
It’ll pay for itself the first time your shitty inkjet has one cartridge dry up from not being used in a while, so then the software won’t let you print anything at all until you replace all 4 of them with proprietary OEM replacement cartridges.
That’s one of the main reasons I decided to bite the bullet and spend a few hundred bucks on a color laser. I print so rarely that I wanted a system that wouldn’t dry out from infrequent use.
Then get yourself a basic black & white laser printer. Brother is usually pretty good for that. The cartridges don’t expire and it’ll be ready instantly when you need it, whether that’s tomorrow or next year.
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 11 months ago
Get a Laser then… Inkjets dry out if not regularly used, which on the cheaper printer often means ‘throw it away and buy a new one’ because they don’t have replaceable heads. A laser will happily sit for months idle then spring into life.