My personal printing at home history has always followed the same patterns:
- Buy a printer (with scanner, copier, fax!)
- Buy the over-priced, proprietary ink.
- Use the printer.
- Enjoy a small window of time for when the printer actually works.
- Don’t use printer awhile until I need it again.
- Run an urgent print job I need immediately.
- The printer does not work.
- Waste time trying to get the printer working.
- Take the copies I need printed somewhere else and over-pay.
- Get rid of the printer.
- Buy a printer.
- Buy the over-priced, proprietary ink.
- Get rid of printer.
This planned obsolescence is maddening for almost everyone who owns one of these damned things. It isn’t one brand, it is the market and no one is willing to help you. Guess what, Hewlett Packard/Brother/Epson? Piss off enough people and they won’t buy your crappy products anymore. This printer is my last home printer.
Oh, does anyone want an Epson printer/copier/scanner/fax? Only used a few times. Free to a good home. Or a bad home, I don’t care.