Posted: 1/10/2010 6:42:45 PM EDT
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I have a Brother MFC240 all-in-one printer, and I am going to shoot it soon.
The damn thing eats thru printer cartridges like candy, even though I don't print but 20 pages a year. I never print in color, and those little shits just empty themselves automatically. And then, I go look on Brother's site, and it says to use up the ink six months after you open it! The damn color set is something like $50, and the black is $30. Fuck this piece of shit!!! So, what "all in one unit" out there is under $200, has long lasting ink, and has cheap refills? |
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Photo printer + CIS system = win.
I had an Epson R300 with a CIS (Continuous Ink Supply) system, but the printer ultimately died (after several resets of the built-in "you need a new printer because we've counted the sheets you've printed and decided you've gotten your money's worth"). I now have an Epson R1400, with another CIS system. #79 Epson cartridge at Staples: $24 for 11ml cartridge. $2.18 / ml. CIS system from www.inkjetfly.com = $124.xx shipped, for 600ml. $.21 / ml. You can buy systems for roughly half that, but most of the photography boards I visited spoke highly of the ijf.com ink. As my GF wants to print a bunch of pictures, I thought the extra $ would be worth it. At those prices, the $124 I spent on aftermarket ink bought me the same quantity as $1,308 worth of ink cartridges from Staples. My ink costs literally 10% of what OEM's charge. Now the GF can print all the photos she wants, I can print documentation, the kiddo can print off coloring books, etc without me seeing $ on every sheet of paper. 
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Quoted: This is my only experience with Brother printers, and it is a bad one. Am I going to have problems with future Brother products, or did I just learn the hard way about inkjet printers? You learned the hard way about the economic concept called "loss leader." Buy a lazer printer. I have had same issues with all-in-one by HP since 1996... My relatives love them sense they only need to buy one thing. Problem with all-in-ones is they try to do everything for everyone and end up doing nothing well for any-one. Like the F-111. I have a separate scanner and printer and everything just fucking works with no special software or other jump-thru-hoop-shit from the vendor.  |
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This is my only experience with Brother printers, and it is a bad one. Am I going to have problems with future Brother products, or did I just learn the hard way about inkjet printers? You learned the hard way about the economic concept called "loss leader." Buy a lazer printer. I have had same issues with all-in-one by HP since 1996... My relatives love them sense they only need to buy one thing. Problem with all-in-ones is they try to do everything for everyone and end up doing nothing well for any-one. Like the F-111. I have a separate scanner and printer and everything just fucking works with no special software or other jump-thru-hoop-shit from the vendor.
But do you have a seperate copier as well? That the scanner, and printer gets used more than the fax, which I never use. |