Do you know that #HP “Instant Ink” subscription that tries to get you to treat pages like limited cell phone minutes while locking you into their #DRM#inkjet cartridges that only work if the #printer can phone home over the Internet?
@beandev Why do people even bother with this shit?
There's literally no good reason to own an #inkjet - regardless if one prints one or one million pages a year!
The only reason I've not retired my #DeskJet6122 in lieu of a used & refurbished #XeroxWorkCentre6515 is because my DeskJet refuses to die and it's cartridges refuse to run out...
Because they used #Glycol-based #Ink instead of #Water-based ink that tends to crust up the printer heads.
@arstechnica I would never, in a million years buy an #HP#printer. Specially not an #inkjet printer. HP is an evil company and needs to go fuck itself.
#RightToRepair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than #apple whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of #ewaste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.
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Parts-pairing is bullshit, and Apple are scum for using it, but they're hardly unique. Parts-pairing is at the core of the fuckery of #inkjet#printer companies, who use it to fence out third-party ink, so they can charge $9,600/gallon for ink that pennies to make:
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket. Your car's digital infrastructure is a costly, dangerous nightmare - but for automakers in pursuit of postcapitalist utopia, it's a dream they can't give up on.
You've probably noticed the skirmishes with #inkjet#printer makers, who can only force you to buy their ink at 20,000% markups if they can stop you from deciding how your printer is configured:
@Aglaia89@njudah WTF!?
So people can't even sell their used ink??
Okay, that's it! #Inkjet printers are now 100% #Scam at best if not #ReducedLifecycle-based, intentional #eWaste and every retailer selling that shit in lieu of #Toner is complicit in the grift!!!
If we didn’t have #climateChange, laser printers are favorable for most non-photographic use cases. But I hate to say it: laser printers are substantially less energy efficient than #inkjet printers.
My solution: own no printer. Use a print shop or library. A lot of the energy waste is in powering on and charging up the drum. If you have to stand in line to use a #laserPrinter, that’s a good thing energy wise because high volumes is more efficient per page (but AFAIK still never as effecient as an inkjet… but perhaps reasonable enough).
Internet, do ink tank based #inkjet#printers suffer from the same problems that cartridge based inkjet printers have? I.e they dry out and then waste half a cart cleaning themselves?
I assume the ink isn't DRM protected and I can use 3rd party ink just fine?
I need a new printer, and also want to experiment with dye-sublimation printing, but don't want a printer that won't work half the time.
Does anybody have anything to say about #Epson printers as a whole? I had a nice 7 year old workhorse of a Canon printer whose Obsolescence Chip gave up the ghost today. Looking into it, Epson seems to be the only home office calibre manufacturer that still lets you use the same universal ink cartridges instead of a dozen different non-interchangeable and non-refillable ones?
We have an inkjet printer (I do not want to talk about that). It went from working fine to working not at all from one minute to the next. Error message was that the printer head is broken. I did not believe that.
We found the same printer online second hand. Took me an hour to go and get it, train and walking. Carried it home in a bag. Perks of living in a bigger city. There's so much second hand stuff.
Contrary to what the seller said, the second printer did not work. But it had another printer head. They are surprisingly easy to remove and replace. We put the second printer head into the old printer, and.. it worked!
Made one working printer from two broken ones! 😆🤩
Total effort around 2 hours and 25 Euros (and we got the ink that's still in the second printer)
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