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Originally Posted by RMarkland
Be cautious, when buying a printer the first cost is not the only factor. You will be using many, many replacement cartridges during its lifetime. When looking into printers, also some have one cartridge which has the colors and black. When one of the colors or black is used up, the rest of the ink goes to waste. Suggest you look for a printer that has threee sepereate cartridges for the color, and a fourth for Black. I have had a Brother printer for 5 plus years. Their service of any issues via telephone is fantastic. The cost of ink is reasonable. Be cautious of the low initial price printer, they get you on the cartridges.
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Re: inks in all one cartridge.
I think my earliest printer Canon? was like that. The last ink jet that I had was HP and it was designed to not only do normal printing but photos as well. It took five separate inks. Typical of ink jets they used the ink to clean the heads. The ink was like $30 each.
It is sort of like cleaning the spray heads with gold. If I recall the printer cost me like $100 or $150. The companies likely lose money on every printer they sell. Not only the product but a fancy four color sell box. They make money on the ink. That HP, even if not used would eat up 30x5=150 a year in ink. Cost to print a photo on that machine you could send the picture to one of the labs, a drug store or one of the stationary stores and get a print that is far more water proof, better quality and cost less.