That's it, I'm going back to the printing press.

I switched to laser years ago...cartridges are still expensive and I lose color but it's worth the money saved in the long run.

That is why I dumped my inkjet POS. I went laser. Not like that is a heck of a lot better... who knows how often/expensive its going to be to replace bits such as the fuser and who knows what else.

Planned obsolescence people that is all this is. Many modern gadgets are designed to fail in a relatively short time.. all to get you to 'go buy a new one'.

Now you wonder why landfills are full to the brim?

But laser is so expensive.

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But laser is so expensive.


If you can live with monochrome it's not really that expensive compared to inkjet. My Samsung ML-1710 cost me about $120 and came with a starter cartridge good for about 1000 pages. The replacement cartridges are about $75 and good for about 3000 pages. When I had an inkjet I was paying around $60 for ink every 6-8 months and that was even if I hadn't used it that much because the cartridges would clog up or dry out. I bought my last toner cartridge a couple of years ago and it's still going strong.

I have an LJ4 that I got for free when my company was sending it to the recycle center. My cartridge has lasted me for 4 years. And I have a spare already.