I feel like I'm doing a lot of ranting lately, maybe I'm getting cranky in my old age?
To sum things up, let me put it this way: InkJet printers are a SCAM!
So I'm trying to print something off on my computer, and low and behold the damn thing's out of ink; after printing off less than 100 pages on the thing. I can shake the cartridge and hear ink sloshing around, but it refuses to even try to print. It's a Canon R220 for those of you who care, but now it's in the dumpster; so you see where this thread is going already.
I figure I might begrudgingly go buy some ink for the thing, since I've had to print a thing off here and there for the past month, and couldn't because the damn printer's out of ink. I've been avoiding/putting it off because I know ink is pricey.
So I go to the local Radio Shack to look at ink prices, and to my dismay, this is what I find:
- 5-pack color inks (magenta, yellow, cyan, light yellow, light magenta) $65.00
- Black ink cartridge, $25.00
So getting replacement ink for the printer costs $90!!!! PLUS TAX!!! Disgusting thing is, I bought the entire printer for around $70 from Best Buy about a year ago. So *******?! I sure as heck am NOT going to buy ink when I can get a whole new printer, and I'm not buying a new InkJet of any brand because ink is RIDICULOUS expensive, probably because they're trying to make some money back after selling their printers for under cost.
So I say screw it and drive down to Best Buy in Santa Fe. I knew there were laser printers out there that you could buy for about $100, and low and behold I find an HP LaserJet 1020 for $99... It prints at 15ppm, and cranks out 2000 prints per toner cartridge! Plus, the toner won't run if it gets wet, and it has an incredible first page out time of 10 seconds (not too shabby for such an inexpensive option). Toner cartridges cost around $70, but if I'm getting 2000 sheets out of each one I don't care...
So I bought the LaserJet, tossed the Epson pile in the dumpster, and am never going back. I'll buy a color laser printer before I go back to InkJet... I mean the HP Color LaserJet 1600 is only $225! And it does more than 1000 pages between fillups...
On another topic, what's with the billions of all-in-one units at Best Buy now? They literally have twice as many all-in one units as they have stand-alone scanners and printers combined!
So there's my rant for the day. That is all.