What do you think of the Epson Ecotank?
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Reygle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
15 years ago HP was among the best in the business. They made workhorse products that did millions of pages (and those old models continue to)
Today HP is a malware and telemetry company who won’t let the average consumer use their printer without a logged-in HP account slurping telemetry about every aspect of their lives. Any consumer who buys a printer with the letter “e” in the model number is paying money to be spied on. Anyone who buys a non-“e” model is still doing so, but in a less VISUALLY obvious, and obnoxious way.
This is not random assumption. I’m a tech. Anyone who buys an HP Printer today and asks me to install them gets a fast education on why they shouldn’t cut the packing tape on that box.
Buy Brother.
wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world 8 months ago
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I was looking to buy an ET. Then I learned about the sponge. While you’re free to refill the ink at little cost there’s also a sponge that cleans the heads or soaks up excess ink. I have forgotten the purpose, but it’s a 2 dollars sponge, you can easily get something like it and replace it. But the printer won’t reset the counter for the sponge. Unless you want to download sketchy stuff off of a Belarusian website, your only option is to ship the printer to Epson and pay them for the trouble.
That maneuver is about the same price as a new ecotank.
Since writing the above I did some late-night googling, and it seems that Epson US has caught enough flack for this, and now offers a one time key for a reset utility epson.com/…/epson-ink-pads-reset-utility-faqs.
If I buy a printer it’ll be a brother laser, or a professional inkjet… And I don’t see the latter happening.
Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have an ecotank and I like it a lot. It setup quick and works wired and wireless. The only thing I don’t like is the print quality feels desaturated. Although I don’t print for any art purposes so it doesn’t matter too much.
ThetaDev@lemm.ee 8 months ago
They look like good machines if you are printing a lot and need an inkjet (like for photo printing)
If you are only using a printer occasionally for letters or shipping labels, laser printers are probably a better option. Sure, they need more space, but they cant dry out and dont require cleaning programs.
Reygle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Have no experience with Epson outside of 1 complete trash-teir $50 inket, which was hot garbage which of course it was- sorry.
rambos@lemm.ee 8 months ago
We have one A3 format in the office for 8 months and its been amazing
stewsters@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, I have a network attached brother black and white printer. It’s pretty great. It handles 98 percent of my printing workload, no fuss, I honestly don’t remember the last time I changed any toner. Has a scanner on top that works if I need it.
If I want something big/nice and in full color I can always go down to the print shop. But for your common printing it’s great.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
15 years ago is almost 2009 now. I remember HP being shit back then already so maybe add another 10 years to that 15.
Reygle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe I’m misremembering when the old 4100 series dropped, but it was the last of the really great monsters they built.