The brother printer my spouse has had for ages is finally running out of ink and a quick chedk shows that they don’t make cartridges for it anymore, you cant reset them, and you can only buy dubious 3rd party options on amazon for $150 each. For that kind of money id rathet find a printer that let’s me put of the scam, but im not finding a lot of options there. Does anyone have advice?
EcoTank printers. I bought one (an Epson) 7 years ago (maybe 8), and filled it up with liquid ink. I’ve refilled it once since, and that refill cost me under $50 total. It has some quirks, but it just keeps printing. Don’t know if the tech has changed, but I don’t see how you can DRM liquid.
I looked at these when replacing my HP, but they’re still inkjets, right? We don’t print often enough to keep inkjets operational–the ink dries and permanently clogs the head. I tried manually clearing that on my last one and was completely unsuccessful. It’s been lasers ever since then.
This one seems to work even with weeks of no printing.
Laser printers are far better all around, if you can stomach the up front cost.