Grrrrr! Finding a good home printer boils down to ink choices, I guess
Unless you’ve got some business need for a thermal printer like the epson tm-t88iv or some other cash-register-like options, you probably struggle with finding a good home printer, just like I do. And after YEARS of relying on good old HP printers, I’m about ready to throw my current HP out the window and look at Kodak, Epson, or some other inkjet brand printer.
Grrrr — as in growling with anger. We have an All-in-One style printer that prints, scans, and copies. We bought it so my wife could scan some family photos. But from the end of the first month we had the thing, it has always messed up with feeding paper. If you print more than one page at a time, the darn feeder fails to pull the sheets out properly. You end up printing the first two lines of a page at the bottom of the page before.
Unfortunately, the printer itself was dirt cheap, so it isn’t worth trying to repair or exchange it now — it’s cheaper just to buy a new one. But something about that rankles me: Why toss out a printer and just buy another?
My major pet peeve about printers, however, lies with the ink, not the printer. It’s absolutely incredible to me that printer manufacturers have made the machines so cheap that it ALMOST costs less to toss the printer and replace it than it does to replace the printer ink cartridges!
Anyhow, I’ve had my little rant now. I suppose I feel better. Anyone else out there think it’s outrageous to pay $40+ for an ink cartridge to put into a $60+ printer??
