On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:28:12 UTC, "dennis@home"
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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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BigWallop wrote:
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
I've got a Cannon i865 printer and the cost of the inks is
ridiculous.

That's true of just about all printer brands and models

It getting cheaper to fill the car up with fuel, than it is to buy ink
for
our printer. No Joke.

You're right.

My last bill for ink for a basic Dell printer was just north of £60.
The printer (an "all in one" Lexmark clone) came free with a PC, but
would normally have cost only about £40.

A warning came up within a week that new cartridges were needed, but I
kept them going until the ink ran out two months later, and only then
replaced them.


It was £58 to fill the car up and £62 (colour and black) to buy ink
cartridges for our HP all-in-one. The fifty eight pounds for fuel will
normally last me about 2 weeks, back and forward to work. The sixty two
pounds for ink will also last for about two weeks because we use the
machine
to fax, copy and print all our work stuff.

So it is actually cheaper to fill the car with fuel, than it is to buy
the
ink to refill the printer.

You need a laser printer.

£60 of new drum and toner on my 5MP will last about 4-6 reams of paper.

You need an old LJ4, they will run to 6 reams on a £20 cartridge.
And they never break (well not for 200000 pages anyway).

I've had ones with a much higher page count here! The rated life is, I
believe, 1Mpage.

I have two LJ4+ machines, and a few more for spares! Both have duplexers
and large paper trays. Last fault was a broken microswitch on the paper
tray - easily fixed.

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