Yeah the Canon has been pretty good. I’ve had it for around a year now. I sort of print in batches, like I’ll have a week where I print a few photos then nothing for a month or so. When I had a long break once (2-3 months), the printer started printing streaks so I had to run some sort of fixing cleanup cycle which fixed the issue although it wasted some ink. I haven’t had to buy any replacement ink yet because again I don’t print a lot, but I’m sure if I was using a traditional inkjet I would’ve had to buy replacement ink cartridges a few times already.
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BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoEpson seems like a great choice, until you learn about the ecotank sponge issue.
You can buy a new waste ink sponge for next to nothing, but the firmware counter needs to be reset. That requires either a sketchy piece of software from some Russian hacker, or shipping the printer to epson and then paying epson for 5min of work and return shipping. The latter is rumored to be about the same price as a new ecotank.
But you’re happy with your megatank? I might look into that… I stopped looking at inkjets after hearing about the ecotank.
somethingp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Wait, I thought the counter can be reset with some specific button presses only. I’ve seen the video guides on YouTube.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
w00t? I will really have to look into that. There’s a reasonably priced 2nd hand A3 ecotank in my vicinity, and I’ve been avoiding it because of this.
Do you have sources?
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Dang, I can’t find it anymore. I swear I watched a video about an ecotank counter reset once, since I was also interested in buying it one time. I’ll have to dig into my YouTube history.