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On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 10:58:01 -0800 (PST), wrote:

D'oh. These days you can buy a monochrome laser printer for under $200.
It prints better than an inkjet printer, and the carts can be anywhere
from $50 on up for a cart that prints thousands of copies.- Hide quoted text -

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You can't print color pages on a $200 monochrome printer, but you CAN
on a $75 inkjet, photographic quality, too.

I have a Brother laser that is still on the first toner cart 2 years
later.
I have a photo quality inkjet in the closet but the few photos I print
end up being cheaper at the drug store on their printer than buying a
set of carts.


Brother makes first-class printers. The one my wife has in her home
office is at least five years old and gets a lot of use. Monochrome.

The cheap inkjets produce...cheap-looking output. For most users, that
doesn't matter much.

BAR wrote:
Tim wrote:
OK, so my printer cartridge dies. the little HP 45.

I went to the local "china-Mart" store and was shocked at how much a
little plastic cartridge with some kind of coal dust can cost.

I don't print much. I don't have much reason to, but dang!

Somebody said in the case of their older Lexmark printer the cartridge
was higher than getting a new printer with cartridges preloaded.

amazing.

Keep your eye on the ads and when you see a $69 printer, buy 10. When
the first one runs out of ink throw the whole thing away and open up the
box with the second printer.

Many budget printers are supplied with reduced capacity 'trial'/'get you
started' cartriges to preserve the price differential. Also most
cartridges have a use by date that if vastly exceeded can result in a
blocked printhead. OTOH there are plenty of people EBAYing printers
without cartridges . . .

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BAR wrote:
Tim wrote:
OK, so my printer cartridge dies. the little HP 45.

I went to the local "china-Mart" store and was shocked at how much a
little plastic cartridge with some kind of coal dust can cost.

I don't print much. I don't have much reason to, but dang!

Somebody said in the case of their older Lexmark printer the cartridge
was higher than getting a new printer with cartridges preloaded.

amazing.

Keep your eye on the ads and when you see a $69 printer, buy 10. When
the first one runs out of ink throw the whole thing away and open up the
box with the second printer.

Many of the printers come with the smaller ink cartridges. The $37
version is probably the high yield cartridge.

You can always get them filled at Walgreens.

On Feb 7, 7:05*pm, D K wrote:
BAR wrote:
Tim wrote:
OK, so my printer cartridge dies. the little *HP 45.

I went to the local "china-Mart" store and was shocked at how much a
little plastic cartridge with some kind of coal dust can cost.

I don't print much. I don't have much reason to, but dang!

Somebody said in the case of their older Lexmark printer the cartridge
was higher than getting a new printer with cartridges preloaded.

amazing.

Keep your eye on the ads and when you see a $69 printer, buy 10. When
the first one runs out of ink throw the whole thing away and open up the
box with the second printer.

Many of the printers come with the smaller ink cartridges. The $37
version is probably the high yield cartridge.

You can always get them filled at Walgreens.

Don't have a Walgreens, but do have a CVS.

hmmmm

Tim wrote:
On Feb 7, 7:05 pm, D K wrote:
BAR wrote:
Tim wrote:
OK, so my printer cartridge dies. the little HP 45.
I went to the local "china-Mart" store and was shocked at how much a
little plastic cartridge with some kind of coal dust can cost.
I don't print much. I don't have much reason to, but dang!
Somebody said in the case of their older Lexmark printer the cartridge
was higher than getting a new printer with cartridges preloaded.
amazing.
Keep your eye on the ads and when you see a $69 printer, buy 10. When
the first one runs out of ink throw the whole thing away and open up the
box with the second printer.
Many of the printers come with the smaller ink cartridges. The $37
version is probably the high yield cartridge.

You can always get them filled at Walgreens.

Don't have a Walgreens, but do have a CVS.

hmmmm


Tim: here's a source of decent cartridges at good prices:

http://www.abacus24-7.com/home.aspx?...2d nAodbUVx0w

I use their Canon equivalent carts on my Canon photo printer. No clogs
or failures so far after about two years of using them.

"HK" wrote in message
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Tim wrote:
On Feb 7, 7:05 pm, D K wrote:
BAR wrote:
Tim wrote:
OK, so my printer cartridge dies. the little HP 45.
I went to the local "china-Mart" store and was shocked at how much a
little plastic cartridge with some kind of coal dust can cost.
I don't print much. I don't have much reason to, but dang!
Somebody said in the case of their older Lexmark printer the cartridge
was higher than getting a new printer with cartridges preloaded.
amazing.
Keep your eye on the ads and when you see a $69 printer, buy 10. When
the first one runs out of ink throw the whole thing away and open up
the
box with the second printer.
Many of the printers come with the smaller ink cartridges. The $37
version is probably the high yield cartridge.

You can always get them filled at Walgreens.

Don't have a Walgreens, but do have a CVS.

hmmmm


Tim: here's a source of decent cartridges at good prices:

http://www.abacus24-7.com/home.aspx?...2d nAodbUVx0w

I use their Canon equivalent carts on my Canon photo printer. No clogs or
failures so far after about two years of using them.

I was using 'Staples' cartridges for my older Canon i470D inkjet printer but
stopped because they didn't seem to last very long.
Found out later I could have returned tham if I wasn't satisfied.

HK wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Feb 7, 7:05 pm, D K wrote:
BAR wrote:
Tim wrote:
OK, so my printer cartridge dies. the little HP 45.
I went to the local "china-Mart" store and was shocked at how much a
little plastic cartridge with some kind of coal dust can cost.
I don't print much. I don't have much reason to, but dang!
Somebody said in the case of their older Lexmark printer the cartridge
was higher than getting a new printer with cartridges preloaded.
amazing.
Keep your eye on the ads and when you see a $69 printer, buy 10. When
the first one runs out of ink throw the whole thing away and open up
the
box with the second printer.
Many of the printers come with the smaller ink cartridges. The $37
version is probably the high yield cartridge.

You can always get them filled at Walgreens.

Don't have a Walgreens, but do have a CVS.

hmmmm


Tim: here's a source of decent cartridges at good prices:

http://www.abacus24-7.com/home.aspx?...2d nAodbUVx0w


I use their Canon equivalent carts on my Canon photo printer. No clogs
or failures so far after about two years of using them.

I usually run out of ink when I need to print something now. I can't
wait for the FedEx guy to deliver the cartridge tomorrow afternoon.

"BAR" wrote in message
...
Tim wrote:
OK, so my printer cartridge dies. the little HP 45.

I went to the local "china-Mart" store and was shocked at how much a
little plastic cartridge with some kind of coal dust can cost.

I don't print much. I don't have much reason to, but dang!

Somebody said in the case of their older Lexmark printer the cartridge
was higher than getting a new printer with cartridges preloaded.

amazing.

Keep your eye on the ads and when you see a $69 printer, buy 10. When the
first one runs out of ink throw the whole thing away and open up the box
with the second printer.

That is sad but true. A lot of plastic goes to the dump. Just did that
with my HP C3140. Great printer, so was it's replacement and nothing at all
wrong with it. But needed a new set of ink and I was looking at $70 for new
ink. So I pulled out the one I got with the last computer for $29.

Looking at the cartridges, my guess is they cost HP about $1 to make. 3000%
markup. But the printer is subsidized knowing people need the cartridges.
Being a low usage user, they last quite a while. I think they also count on
people printing pictures, which eats them fast.

Wish there was a easy cheap way just to refill them without the mess.

On Feb 6, 11:06*pm, Tim wrote:
OK, so my printer cartridge dies. the little *HP 45.

I went to the local "china-Mart" store and was shocked at how much a
little plastic cartridge with some kind of coal dust can cost.

I don't print much. I don't have much reason to, but dang!

Somebody said in the case of their older Lexmark printer the cartridge
was higher than getting a new printer with cartridges preloaded.

amazing.

Yeah, it's a pretty good scam. I did the math one day and these guys
in some cases are getting over 5 thousand dollars a gallon for ink...
Sort of like gas inching up while the price for barrel is going down.
Where is Barakolypse on this corporate rip off?

"Tim" wrote in message
...
OK, so my printer cartridge dies. the little HP 45.

I went to the local "china-Mart" store and was shocked at how much a
little plastic cartridge with some kind of coal dust can cost.

I don't print much. I don't have much reason to, but dang!

Somebody said in the case of their older Lexmark printer the cartridge
was higher than getting a new printer with cartridges preloaded.

amazing.

Costco refills for about $9. Some other stores also.