As many of you know, I work in printing and am surrounded by printers and printer-related problems for about 40h a week! Does this make me an expert on printers? No. However, I have noticed that a lot of students have printers (why!?) and, almost always, these printers are inkjet. I haven’t met a single person yet who owns a laser printer. So, I decided to get my thoughts together and write a post so that I can direct people here instead of exasperatingly saying things like “Do you know how much inkjet printers cost?!” Yes, I get it, you can buy an inkjet printer for $10 at Wal-Mart. The point is, you will to buy another one in 2 months because the ink cartridges are $40 because as this Consumerist article “reports”, inkjet printers require all three colours and a black & white cartridge before it even considers printing. Also, and this may just be my experience, I just don’t print often enough to use the ink up before it dries. When I was in Cegep, I had a little desktop printer and half the times I went to print it would go “teeheehee, I’m out of pink ink!” […]
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