Printers! Cheaper than diamonds
 

Well, my fancy inkjet printer is about 6 months old and needing new cartidges. Epson R220, a full set will cost $80. A new printer will cost $90. That's nuts!:shifty:

Well yea. Thats the scam. Every printer I've own have been only around 10 bucks more than a single cartrage. In some case the printer came with two cartrages and was still only a few bucks more! :down:

I bought a Samsung color laser printer, and haven't looked back since.

Toner refill for all the colors + black runs a little over $200. I actually bought HP 8500 toner. Used about 2/3's of a bottle for an empty cartridge, and you don't even have to use the heat gun for the cartridges; Samsung puts a little plastic plug on each cartridge, I guess just for the ease of refilling them. :D

You get 5000+ sheets at 5%, per cartridge. The upfront cost might be a little "steep", but if you're using the thing, you definately come out on top where consumables are concerned. I'd guess the first refill breaks even with inkjets. If you replace your cartridges and imaging drum every 15k sheets, you're still money ahead.

$500 for the printer.
$230 for the all the toner
$5 for a pair of pliers from Target.
$3 for a roll of paper towels.
$.10 for the water to wet the paper towels.
3 minutes of time per cartridge, if you're being careful to keep the dust down (1min if not).

check out www.carrotink.com they have great prices and the ink works perfectly, and it is a lot cheaper, shipping is pretty fast too. if you were to buy from them you are looking at about 60 dollars for all of the cartridges, and shipping is only 5 or 10 bucks.

I've had a brother laserjet since the late '90s and the darn thing is unstoppable. I think I've only refilled the toner a few times. Every once and a while somebody comes out with technology that does last!:up:

I guess you never bought razor blades

:rotfl:

I have my trusty old HP Laserjet 6P. Every few months I have to buy a new toner cartridge (refilling is possible, but, oh well, dirty). Reworked quality cartridges cost you around 25Euros and give you absolutely clear prints, not difference to the original HP cartridges. And Laserprints don´t smear when they get wet, in contrast to most inkjet prints. Did I mention that I have printed over 190K (yep, "K"!) Pages with that printer? And it never ONCE gave me problems.
Of course I need another printer for making colour prints, so if my 6P dies (if ever), i probably buy a colour laserprinter to save deskspace :)

In some cases, such as when a store is having a sale, it IS cheaper to buy a new printer rather than new cartridges. That's just ridiculous.

PD

I think this is simply a reflection of our modern "disposable" society.

And just imagine, in a few years' time it'll prolly be cheaper to buy a new car than refill the one you've got (OK, fundamentally a different argument, but you get what I mean)...

:lol: :lol: :lol: Yes another example of the customer being screwed. :nope:

True men use a knife anyway.

True men don't shave ! Sissys use electric razors !

I remember as a kid watching the film Dr Dolittle, the original 1960's version with Rex Harrison and being highly impressed with a novel way of shaving. I distinctly remember Rex Harrison (Dr Dolittle), standing on a piece of his own ships wreckage and shaving using a broken glass bottle whilst peering over the edge into the sea and using the reflection as a mirror. So forget all those triple blade technology razors and be a real man. :lol:

Aren't we already quattro bladed with microvibration stimulating? What's next? Five X-scissor-doublettes with semi-automatic single-hair-laser targetting device and accoustic confirmation when a hair successfully got cut?? Whenever I am at work and see some non-thinker buying a blister with four super-blades and pays 24 bucks for that, I smile to the outside, but inside I burst with laughter.

:lol: :lol: It really is marketing gone silly isn't it?