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Laser printer would be nice if you can afford one or have your company write it off. But for some people the cash is just not there.

I know that may not dawn on many of you upper middle class types that don’t live on have to live on ramen. To afford the 3.45 a gal gas. To run you to work because the town live and work in have no concept of public transportation.

But i can tell for many of use on SSI,SSDI & Minimum Wage. A $30 used Dot Matrix with $6 ribbon. Is a lot more economical then a used or new laser printer with a $50 Cartridge.

Ya it may look nice but for something as simple as printing out text. It is overkill.

Better still, I found instructions to reset the counter within the printer. Believe it or not, the printer doesn’t tell you when the reservoir is full, it tells you when it thinks it might be, based on how many times you turn it on and off. If it’s on and off daily (what, you’re trying to save electricity, you planet-hugging dreamer?), it thinks you’re filling up the reservoir faster. Also every time you have it “clean” the print heads.

It’s all a crock of…well, let’s say ink, since if there’s anything wrong ever, the tech support people tell you to clean the nozzles several times. But when you buy it, no one tells you that you’re buying something that’s deliberately disposable.

Of course, at some point that reservoir might actually be full, and then I’ve got to suck it up and try to get the whole thing apart to replace the pad. You can replace them for practically free, all you need is in the “women’s needs” section of the pharmacy, one sack of pads should last your printer your lifetime. Come to think of it, I really ought to try doing that some time BEFORE the reservoir overflows and oozes ink everywhere.

I don’t really care about the wasted ink, that might be necessary for it to function…but surely it’s a deliberate design feature of these printers that you can’t get to the waste pad without entirely taking the printer apart. Clearly, they WANT you to buy a whole new printer, since that’s what they’re selling…but it’s a total waste of money and materials. I’d definitely switch printer brands next time if there was a printer that had as good output but also had a little tray I could periodically swap out.

laser printers FTW

(pew pew)