[Coco] Printing on cheap crappy printers with a CoCo was Re: Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[Louis Ciotti]

Your not the only one who has done that.  The one thing I have noticed is
that the ink included in those printers is actually a low capacity
cartridge, so it does not last very long, you might get 100 pages out of
that initial set.  The confusion I have is what they call the refills now.
 For epson the have moderate, standard and high capacity in that order for
capacity.  And depending on where you go sometimes the standard is cheaper
than the moderate, go figure.  I honestly wish they would flip the cost
model around.  I would much rather pay more for a printer that would built
to last and has lower cost ink/toner.  The last laser printer I had I ended
up tossing because the toner was 3x the cost of the printer itself, and
having it refilled was 2x the cost.


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 11, 2014 12:23 AM, "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Yup, but it comes with a 17,000 lb bull elephant too.  In the form of
> once
> > fired up the first time, you don't dare let it sit for a week else those
> > submicron sized nozzles are plugged, often forever.  I managed to keep an
> > older Epson ink squirter going for quite a while, several years, but it
> had
> > its cost because to keep it from plugging up, I had to run a full page
> > color output daily.  That added up to about $300 for ink a year.  Way
> more
> > than the $10 for a ream of paper.  I solved the lack of exercise problem
> by
> > using it to print the nightly amanda backup report which at that time
> also
> > use some color in its column headings.  Sadly, someone took the color out
> > of the raw template so its all B&W now.  I didn't even notice at the
> time.
> >
>
> Since we're miles from the topic anyway, here's something I always find
> funny..
> I don't print things hardly at all, so it takes a couple years to use up
> the ink a printer comes with.  For all I know I'm not even using it all,
> it's just drying up or evaporating.
> Anyway, the last 3 or 4 times that I've run out of ink, I go to an Office
> Depot or Max or whatever and they will have brand new printers for sale
> cheaper than a set of cartridges for the printer I already have.  So I've
> ended up with new $30-$40 printers (with ink) instead of ink each time.
> Seems bizarre, but I guess the profit model is all geared towards selling
> the ink, not the printers.
>
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