The breaking point for me was going in to buy a replacement cartridge and seeing that a brand new printer was cheaper than a cartridge.

it is outrageous, someone needs to sue the printer companies

I used to work at HP in the early 2000s and even at that time the product line with the highest profit was ink (it was so absurd for everybody that the second biggest tech company in the world at the time made more money in such low tech item than in servers or storage). There were rumors that management wanted to provide free printers for life...the first ink cartridge refill would more than pay for the printer, then almost 100% constant profits after that. Same thing happens with all tech products that need consumables, the money is in the refills, the syringes, the catheters etc., the original product (the printer in this case) is a sunk cost.

I used to work for a Printer company tech support. Inkjet printers are a scam because of the Ink cartridges and now that you have the tank printer you will have to worry about the waste ink absorber that is not user replaceable. at some point it will give you an error saying the the waste ink absorber is full, replace printer. it's a sponge that collects ink when the nozzles clean themselves out on startup and before printing. They could make it user serviceable, but they wouldn't sell as many printers that way.

I worked with HP, and got to see the sheer depths of depravity when it comes to screwing the customer. 1. They have one of the harshest cartridge ID systems, to the point that each cartridge knows the batch it was made from. The reason for this is so the printer can reject single-cartridge replacements, forcing the customer to replace them all. 2. They have multiple layers of detection to ensure the cartridge was never unsealed. The printers immediately break the seal on cartridges as a part of entering them, and it also knows if part of it has been peeled open because a customer attempted to open a secondary entry point. They do this to screw people that misaligned the cartridge or attempted to refill it. 3. They have detectors that err on the side of caution when determining ink levels. They use this to shut down the printer until new cartridges are added, which is to intentionally waste ink and force the customer to replace them all. 4. They have been "enhancing" your black ink with cyan, and there is no option to stop it. They do this to intentionally waste one of the smaller cartridges to force the customer to replace them all. 5. They intentionally slash quality assurance for cartridges. This means the IDs and detectors can randomly fail, which they've programmed to always deny access. This is because some people don't return faulty cartridges, which means they get a double sale. 6. This system creates a lot of ink-filled trash. Not only is the plastic going to last a few centuries, but the ink is highly toxic and has been proven to poison groundwater if allowed to seep. They know this is happening, and are simply trying to keep quiet to not draw attention to it. There's a lot of other ways they're hurting their customers, but I'll keep it to the ink side of things. If an Epson actually lets you refill the cartridges, I recommend shouting it from the mountaintops, because I was led to believe the printer industry had a gentleman's agreement amongst each other to keep ink artificially scarce by any means necessary.

After nearly $200 dollars of ink, over a year, I could only printed 15 pages. It's infuriating that it would dry up in less than 2 weeks. Yes, this sbould be giant lawsuit to stop these criminals.

I remember someone who helped my family with computer stuff, since I was a kid, he will connect ink reservoirs to the cartridge and it would be amazing, and that was yeaaaars before companies like epson finally join the "printing black market". Rest in peace Gustavo, you insane smart ass, love ya!

For inkjet printers, nothing beats the eco tank. I bought one from Costco a year and half ago, printing around 40-50 pages a week. I haven’t even finish the original ink yet. The print heads do not clog up as long as you print a sheet once a while. This ecotank IS the solution. The startup cost is much higher to buy the printer but it’s definitely worth it.

As somebody who has worked in a Walmart photo department and told people often that cartridges were scammy, this level of scam even surprised me.

Also to mention, if you’re not using the printer often enough, the cartridge will dry out. So you still have to continuously buy new ones if you’re printing a little or a lot

I am always amazed that no-one has taken the printer manufacturers to court over such a blatant rip off. I changed to a mono laser much better suited to childrens homework printing.

In India, there are these refill kits that most people use. You basically fill ink into a syringe and moist the depleted foam in the cartridge by putting the needle through a hole in the cartridge. Using the kit, you can refill the cartridges in about 5-10 minutes. Here, the kits cost about 4-5 usd(converted) and you get about 100+100 ml of ink... Plus the tools. About the reliability: I have printed over 2000 sheets using this method and my printer(that I bought for ~$40) still works fine. I calculated the cost per print and it came out to Rs. 0.8 for b/w print and Rs.3 for colour prints. That's about 0.25 cents and 3 cents respectively. Of course it will be higher in the US. There are also conversion kits that can be used to convert inkjet printers to ink tank printer. I haven't tried it but it's pretty popular too.

I sell printers in a retail electronics store. I always thought printer cartridges were a scam and guided my customers to laser printers. Glad that my suspicions were confirmed.

I used to work at Staples and customers would REGULARLY ask why their cartridges get used up so quickly. We almost always had to default to "Well, it could have dried up if it was too hot or you wren't using your printer enough." since we weren't allowed to directly tell them that there's really not a lot of ink.

At the beginning I was thinking, why didn’t he get an epson eco tank? Those last for over a year. 2 minutes into the video, I am now happy

There must be a lawyer who sees this. Someone PLEASE start a class action lawsuit. My Canon color ink cartridges recently need replaced because they're "empty" and I barely print anything in color. It's insane.

The chip on the cartridge also counts the number of pages printed and tells the printer not to print any more when it estimates you're out of ink. This is why sometimes your printer says you're out but you're still getting sharp, clean printing and other times, you get faded printing before it tells you you're out. More often than not, your printer will lock out and tell you to replace the cartridge before it's even empty.

Nothing new here, the scam of these printer inks has been around for 30 odd years.

I'm a computer repair technician that goes onsite to houses and fixes issues with their tech, printers for the longest time were a nightmare until I learned ALL OF THE STUFF YOU SAID IS SO TRUE. About the Epson Eco Tank, as long as you are constantly printing and pretty much never give it a week or 2 break it will function flawlessly, but the second you stop printing for a week it dries on the print heads and they are a nightmare to clean, I just last week had a customer who had two of the same model you showed in the video. One she kept printing from and one she stopped printing to and it dried up, took me an hour and a special kit with an eye dropper that had a similar nozzle to the printhead and I was able to get ONE of the four print heads working again. Laser printers are expensive up front but will save you the most money I have found and they don't care if it's been 4 months or 4 years toner will just work.

The saddest part is that if you print every couple of months and only a few pages you aren't saving anything because the cartridges dry up when they are in the machine. Not only that but they contaminate the ink head with dried on ink as it evaporates. Then you get to buy a new printer as it costs more to clean or replace the head than a new machine. Where is the government when this kind of theft is institutionalized? They could actually do something for the consumer...... yeah we all know how that goes.

It’s crazy how it’s basically cheaper to buy a new printer than it is to buy Ink 😂

I knew ink was overpriced, but I didn't know it was this bad of a scam

Back in 2000 or so when a chick became the CEO of HP she is the one that came up with the concept of an expiration date on cartridges. A year timer starts when the cart is activated and after it expires a high voltage signal is sent that melts a connection within the cart causing it to stop working. She devised this as a selling point to her shareholders to guarantee recurring sales each year, thus increasing profits for them.

Love how the printer industry solved a problem it created

OMG! We should do a nationwide class action suit against printer companies, because that is totally unacceptable.

HP deserves a mention of honor here for being the scammiest of them all. After the first Deskjet printer I got, I decided that it deserved no love at all. After using an Epson printer at my colllege office and seing that those bottles worked way better, I bought one for my house as well. My suffering has lightened because although some argue that there is a difference in quality, for printing some reports, you barely notice that.

I used to work at a school and we'd need to print out exam questions. We really had syringes popped into those prime heads to fill them with ink. The ink were locally made ones you could get in shops. Watching this just made me realize we escaped that rip off.

I have an ink jet printer. I only print on rare occasions. Between prints, I remove the ink cartridges, put plastic tape over the heads, and seal them in a plastic bag. This keeps them from drying out. I've been able to use the same ink cartridges for several years. They do eventually run out of ink or dry out.

These companies need to be held accountable. Why are so many companies continually ripping off their customers and trying to bleed them dry?

I was shocked when I moved to Thailand and walked into a computer shop and found that you can buy gallons of ink for your printer for a couple dollars and you could buy conversion kits that would run tubes into your printer from huge containers that you pour the ink from the gallon into. It made me furious that I was paying $50 for a tiny HP cartridge back in America.

What really annoys me is that cannon sells different size cartridges for your printer, the thing is the cartridges are all the exact same dimensions, but they don’t fill the ‘standard’ size with much ink.

I am a student that usually relays on printers to do my homework and assignments. And i am really annoyed on how the inks are not really much for long use and constantly buying with that cost would make me broke. Never realised i am paying for cartridges and not much for inks man they are quite expensive and now i am looking forward to that epson printer

I had a professor who would just buy a $20 printer when she would run out of ink. I think she would literally just throw it out. She said it was cheaper than buying new ink

It's hard to wrap my head around how much plastic waste is created for fraction of ink.

Something needs to be done about this. Thank you for raising awareness.

I just recently bought the Epsom printer and was thrilled with how easy it was to fill up the ink. Just turn it upside down above the color you need. You can see the actual amount of ink in the front.

For anyone wondering, the reason they use sponges is so you can't make a legal case because you can't get an accurate measurement on the ink

If any of you recall, there used to be an ink refill service at walgreens photo booth. Those cartridges that I would get refilled would work so much longer than the original fill, and I would assume, the company doesn't do it anymore because they lost a fortune.

Decided to sell off my canon printer and that was one of the best decisions I have ever made. I went to purchase an Epson EcoTank and it's way better! At least we don't get ripped off like a sucker! Thank you Epson for saving us!

I had HPs for years. I went through ink so fast. I thought something must be wrong. Than I purchased the EPSON eco tank. I fell in love. I have one for regular printing and sublimation.

What Epson did was brilliant. They struggled to beat HP and Canon in their own game, so they started a new game! In a rare corporate move, they understood what we consumers need, and agreed to earn less per customer, in order to gain a ridiculous number of loyal customers. I switched to Eco-Tank this year and I'm not going back.

Deciding to buy a laser-jet printer was one of the smartest thing's we've ever done. We bought an HP one at least 6 or seven years ago and had to replace the toner ONCE a few months ago. ONCE. We don't print tons, but we use it quite regularly, so it was totally worth it!

I switched to a laser jet in college.. 1 cartridge of toner lasted me a year while printing out my source code.. like 20-50 pages at a time Never went back to ink

I've been wondering about my job's HP All-in-One inkjet. It likes to make us replace multiple cartridges sometimes, but never simultaneously. It goes through the priming cycle, using ink, to only make us change another color and start the cycle again until there is enough ink to continue printing ...something that was black and white to begin with!

I literally work in an electronics store and I keep on trying to urge customers to go for the Epson ecotank over the cheaper canon ones for this exact reason! But seems like not many people wanna spend 400 dollars on a printer but rather spend double that a year on ink 🙃

I remember printing coloring pages for my classmates when I was in elementary school over 35 years ago. I printed over three hundred pages before my dad put a stop to it.... I only used up one printer ribbon in all that time. Dad complained about me using up his printer paper, not his ink. The ink for the printer was dirt cheap in comparison to the cartridges of today. You can buy bottles of ink for just a few dollars. It would take nothing to make a formula that would work in the printers. There is no doubt that the cartridges are a rip off.

I bought a refurbished printer online that promised 1 year of free ink, only for the setup cartridges to arrive damaged because of the packaging. I bought cartridges to use it in the meantime to wait for replacement setup ones, but since I had already started the printer I was no longer eligible for the year of free ink.

I got the Epson on the advice of my brother in the industry- finally did right!!!! Had it almost a year & do a lot of color printing - photo quality 🤗

As a small business owner I realized this years ago and switched to tank printers. Fun fact, the first tank printer was created by Epson.

My favorite was when years back they introduced the "XL" tanks under the guise that suddenly printer ink is cheaper. What they did was filled them halfway and called those the standard cartridges, which now only cost half as much.... so you think "wow, printer ink is finally affordable!" but really all they did was rename the "full" ink cartridges "XL" and then charged the same price as they did before.

I agree that the cost of inks for inkjet printers were exorbitant. I bought a Brother black and white laser printer (DCP-L2540DW) 6 years ago for this very reason. I can also confirm that even unused for weeks on end it has not clogged yet and still on its original toner. This has been a most dependable PC accessory for my home use, copying documents, printing and scanning. I haven't checked yet, but if the cost of color laser printers has gone down today, I may invest on it as well.

I regret I had bought a new cartridge printer before I saw your video on my page. I'm not that tech-advanced, so I haven't even thought that printer can be tricky. Even more, several years ago I had a similar Epson printer like you have in the video, but now I specifically bought a cartridge printer, because the dirty process of refilling the tanks annoyed me. Now, after changing a 3rd or 4th cartridge in TWO MONTHS, I miss my old Epson and the refilling. However, yesterday I bought an ink bottle like I used to, drilled the hole with the help of some polish guy on yt, and refilled it with the ink and syringe, and it miraculously worked! For now I managed to print some test pages and it work just as fine as I've bought another cartridge. I think I can recommend that method, it's not that hard to do and doesn't require special knowledges or equipment. Thank you Mr Fstoppers for educating me on this.

I worked tech at staples for a long time. I tried to push ecotanks as much as I could, but due to their HP partnership, I was forced to push HP printers as an extreme priority. It got to a point where they were sending us to HP sponsored events to train us to push more HP printers. Their tech department as a whole got to be such an ethical problem I ended up walking out.

They tried to scam us but here in the UK we had shops selling knock offs for a full set of inks for less than a fiver saving us like 80% of the retail price. Usually it was for Epson printers. Canon/Lexmark somehow continued to have a system in place to screw their customers.

I manufactured ink for the recycling industry , and actually wrote the book on refilling (it is in Portuguese, my company was based in Brazil) and I agree on the high price problem , hey that was the core of my business, selling ink for companies that recicle and offer 1/2 price cartridges, yet there is more to the cartridge than ink keeping. Your Cannon Printhead has about 400 holes that are each a 10th of a hair thick, that for Cannon is individually linked to a resistor that achieves temperatures above those of the surface of the sun 6000K (for a tiny fraction of a second) and has to self refill for every single drop (and Epson does that with a micro Piezo physical pump). Controlling ink flow, stability, not drying in storage (but drying in paper) , non toxic water base micro pigmented or ultarpurified dyed ink In a package that is light weight so it won't have high inertia a real mess, that is why the cost has to be high for a profitable business, you see for your use you needed probably 50 Cents of paper and less than 5 cents of ink., not bad at the end of the day. for your Cannon see if you can find a good remanufactured cartridge, for Epson ink needed a code to refill , I don't know if that part was solved.

I learned about printer ink in my high school economics class, these “cheap printers” were hundreds of dollars to make. While the ink cartridges took like 1 or 2 dollars to make. They pull customers in with a cheap printer, and then sell ink thats worth more than gold.

Well when the ink is more expensive than the printer, then yeah, it’s a obvious scam. It’s like when companies put less food in their product. Consumers are always getting scammed somewhere!😂

I bought an Epson ecotank around five years ago. It still works great and I've saved a fortune in ink cartridges. Yes, the heads do need cleaning from time to time but this is not a problem. Thanks for telling the world about this wicked ink cartridge scam. Andy B.

I ditched inkjet’s years ago. Sporting a laser at home and clogged heads and crappy carts are no longer an issue.

I have an Epson ET-2720 that you refill the tank with. The only problem is that if you don't use it every day, you get clock heads and you have to run the cleaning several times.

I've been aware of the printer ink scam for multitude of years I took one of those things apart when I was a teenager and then again in my twenties But seeing how we are in the minority of awareness there's not much we can do about this, but I'm glad somebody's finally protesting about it. So thank you for putting up Your video.

We've known about this for so long, why we still don't have consumer protections against this is a mystery to me. It's like a benchmark for seeing how many years behind law makers are when it comes to the tech industry.

I have that same printer, its amazingly efficient for the ink cost. The 2 problems are the print heads do clog up over time and so you do waste some ink cleaning them. Also apparently the cleaning process has a tank that stores the used ink (its pretty large but eventually does fill up). I think theres videos on how to replace it when full but just something to watch out for in the future

I confirm this to be true. Used to remanufacture ink cartridges for a living and the money the owners made was scandalous compared to what they spent on new ink.

As someone who has worked on and sold a variety of printers. The ecotank will do fine so long as you print at least weekly, and leave it plugged in so it can run cleaning subroutines. Worked at the store selling them for like two years, never had a report of failure that didn't involve it being unused in a closet for months.

And people called me crazy when I said they were scamming with the ink! I remember in the 90’s one cartridge would print a book darn near. Late 90’s early 2000’s hit and u can’t even print your syllabus without needing a new cartridge!

We had a Canon and were buying cartridges every couple months, and it was a pain to setup wirelessly. Got an Epson about 3 years ago and have filled it ONCE!

3 months later and I still remembered this video. I have just moved into my own home and now I've ordered an eco-printer. Down with cartridges! Thanks a lot for this video, you are a hero!

Epson EcoTank owner over here, too. I'm also a teacher who always prints worksheets and presentations in full color for my students. It has been 7 years with my L395, and it's still printing without any problem at all. A BIG plus is that you don't need to refill the tanks with the ink that they call "official", I've got ink bottles that where Brother and Canon, used them on my printer, and it keeps on printing. You just made me appreciate my machine a lot more, thanks.

It would have been good to weigh the cartridge before opening it, then rinse out the ink sponges completely with isoalcohol then put them back in once they were dry and re-weigh it. Then you could see exactly how much ink by weight was really in there.

Certain companies also adopt other shady tactics with their Ink - Tank printers as well. I had mine "conk out" within six months. Turns out that that particular model has a kind of failsafe that makes the printer show an error, forcing you to replace the printer/take it for servicing (it's understandable to an extent: since printers are rated for a certain number of cycles. But to have perfectly working printers which are practically new bricked automatically without any fault, seems dubious.) I was able to overcome this by following steps on a KZfaq tutorial that actually sent a kind of "counter reset" to the printer and it worked absolutely fine after that. It seems that particular model is known for prematurely and erroneously activating the failsafe in a number of units.

The print head is actually integrated into the printer, NOT the cartridges. The cartridge communicates with the printer through a chip just shoots out ink.

One thing to keep in mind is that you should print at least one page per week (with all colors) if you have an ecotank. Otherwise the ink will get dry and clog the header, which will require you to pay maintenance. So, if your print very little, create a weekly task in your computer for it to print a page with a bit of every color.

You just gave us solid evidence of what we suspected all along 👍🏼 They sell us printers at a loss, just to rip us off on ink cartridges.

My family got a new HP printer last year. I was surprised when it ran out of ink 2 weeks later, so I went to a nerby tech store. The man who is working there explained the connection thingies which require you to buy new cartridges. Thankfully though he has a lot of experience so he is able to refill it every time the ink runs out so that the printer doesn't notice.

Companies usually get these printers in order to raise the amount they spend per month as a company. But as a person who just uses it, it doesn’t make sense. Unless you scan more than you print, the purchase of the canon printer doesn’t make any sense.

I've been using an epson printer L110 since 2010, it's a tank based printer as well. Working perfectly till date. Can trust epson blindly as long as you're using original ink bottles

Just an hour ago I went to office depot for 3 toner cartridges. They cost about $100 more than the original printer.

The ink in bottles vs. cartridges is not the same. For documents, it doesn’t really matter, but for photos it is really important to understand that the longevity of your prints is different. I have an Epson Ecotank L805, and while it is cheap to use, the prints begin to fade within 2 years of printing. My Epson XP-15000 and P800 printers prints will last for decades, or even centuries before beginning to fade.

Thanks for the video. I have been eyeing off the tank printer for the last month, searching online for pro's and cons. I would be very interested to see how it's going 6 months or so later. Did the print heads jam up/clog like you thought may happen, or any other problems arise ? Thanks. 👍

The Epson is absolutely the answer. My wife is a teacher, we print a lot, daily. We have had this printer for at least 8 months and I am STILL using the original ink the printer came with. Absolutely amazing. I also had a Canon with the cartridges, but she was going thru a cartridge a week. Even buying knockoff ink on Amazon was still 30 bucks a pop. Not one problem with the Epson.

I always loved that Walmart sold printers that came with color and black for usually 15 bucks cheaper than cartridges themselves.

It's been 5 months how's the Epson holding up?

Yep that Epson eco tank is the printer for any small business owner. I have a business and I print something every single day. I've been printing everyday since like 2020 and I still haven't run out of the original ink that came with the printer lol. My black is just now getting a little low after all these years. it was really expensive up front. But it was worth every penny because I haven't had to do anything to it, change any ink or nothing. It just works every time. I've never been happier with a printer in my life.

As a former ink refiller in a photo center at Costco, I can confirm that cartridges are a scam. They don't have that department anymore, but they used to have an official ink refilling machine you could also find at Fry's Electronics that would literally drill 3 holes in the cartridge, and use needles with the correct tone of ink to refill the sponges. After that, we would put stickers on the holes and reset or replace the digital chip so the printer could see it as a new cartridge. It was always a 50/50 chance of working though because of how cheap that design of printer is in general and the different uses each person has with their printer. About 5 years ago, I first saw Epson's Eco Tanks come on the shelf. the 2800,3800, and 4800. I thought that is the solution! I've talked to many people who still have the original black ones and now the newer white ones that they are the way to go for sure.

Just changed the ink on my Ecotank ET-3850 yesterday for the first time. First use was Feb 4,2022 -2,142 pages of black printing on the usage report. Color ink is just at 2/3 capacity. Still have another black bottle - that's at least 5 years worth of ink that came with the printer. I have had all kinfs of cartridge based printers and while the printer costs $50 the ink is expensive and replaced every few months. Yes the Eco Tank costs 10x more than a cheap all in one from Canon or HP - but it is $60 of ink every 2 or so months. I find there is value in the EcoTank and have had zero technical issues except for occasional disconnecting from the wifi - which is most likley a modem issue on our end.

I had a fully functioning HP printer but after two ink cartridge replacements, I decided to ditch the printer. Instead, I use the printing service from my public library which charges 5 cents per page for black and white, and more for color. And I don't even need to buy printer paper!

I remember when ink cartridges were refillable, then they made them non-refillable but we(some of us) would still do it and they would work just fine but then they put those chips inside and it complicated thing but we found a way around to continue refilling them(well at least I did). It's good to see that Epson is giving a shit about the consumer. I just hope the printer actually lasts at least 3 years or five would be preferable.

Don’t forget that the little chips on some cartridges are programmed to give an “out of ink” message after some amount of time, regardless of if you actually used it or not. Yeah, they make their own expiration dates in some cases. And they will brick themselves.

These companies are so corrupt. I remember nearly 20 years ago my grandfather had a printer for business and only he had access to the computer and only ever printed black and still one of the color inks would also slowly run out.

I have a Canon laser printer here. I purchased off-brand toner, even against my OWN feelings because the Canon toner is FOUR times the cost. Each of the cheap cartridges failed in some manner, besides not showing how much toner is left in them due to the "Chip" not reporting it. The cheap toner was being thrown all over inside the machine from the cartridges. My son is a tech with a large company that services commercial copiers. He warned me about the cheap ones. I thought it was not that big a deal. HA!! I gave in and purchased three NEW High-Capacity Canon toner color cartridges to the tune of nearly $600. Two of the actual ones came up and said they were "Invalid". I contacted the vendor about them. He told me that Canon has put "Time Stamp Technology" in the cartridges. He was VERY gracious and sent me THREE new ones AND refunded all my money because of the problem that was created. One point on ink printers to make. If you don't use them often, a few pages a week at least, then the ink can and probably WILL start to clog in the heads. Remember also.... Do NOT turn off the ink printer completely or pull the power supply to "save ink". That WILL spell disaster for you without a doubt. The head WILL for Sure clog up from lack of use. Trust me, I fix these things. My own Brother printer ate ink like a kid eats cookies. I printed 10 pages in one month and my ink was half gone already. The printer turns itself ON, then cleans the cartridges by itself to Keep YOU happy that it isn't clogging. I pulled the plug on my $300 Brother ink-Jet printer for a couple of weeks! That was the last time it ever printed correctly again. Head was clogged and no recovery. I tried everything!! Pulled the head out of and soaked it even. Nothing worked. I figured I would just purchase a new head. HA! They wanted $325 for it. It was then "Deep-Sixed". The Epson "Eco-Tank" printer you purchased is one of the greatest ones I have owned. It WORKS GREAT! I've recently filled the black reservoir for the first time after about a year and a half. Easy Peezy to do. One thing you DO need to replace occasionally is the "Maintenance Box" in the back of the printer. That's where the head dumps ink to keep the head clean. You can get that on Amazon for about $15, I think. You MUST use the printer just like you would any other printer to keep things working, but it is VERY cheap to use that printer, and no hassles! Got my Epson at Costco as well.

I bought my dad an Ecotank for his office. He's been printing dozens of documents a day for over a year and he still hasn't depleted the two black ink bottles that came with the printer. We expect it to last a couple months now before we have to buy new ones. Each bottle lasts almost a year. It made us realize how much we were being ripped off by HP.

I've worked at Best Buy and bought one of these for my mom who works from home but has to do a lot of paperwork. We've had it for over a year and we've only had to buy bottles of ink once and she does a decent amount of printing. Epson started to give a shit and it shows.

I gave up on ink printers and went with a laser printer. And after 16 years I have opened toner cartridge number 4. It is a black only printer and I use it for printing about 300 to 350 pages of varying types per year and some envelopes too. The thing has not let me down yet. It is an HP 1102w if you are curious.

I have been using an Epson ET-3760 for three years and I have only used one bottle of black and less for each of the colors. This is truly the most ink efficient printer I have ever seen. I have told several of my friends who have also purchased teh priinter and are delighted with it. My only beef with this printer is that it is significantly slower printing than the other ink jet printers that I have owned but I will gladly accept that in favor of all the money I have saved not buying ink cartridges. Kudos to Epson for being the manufacturer that has finally come out with a design that really saved the customer money. I highly recommend the ET (eco tank) series to everyone.

For black and white text, laser printers are by far the less expensive option in the end, when you factor in the price of ink and that it tends to dry out over time. I haven't owned an inkjet printer in over 20 years.

My favorite thing about printers and ink is when during the pandemic there was a chip shortage and the ink wouldn't work without a chip and they literally shipped ink without a chip. Hilarity ensues.

The epson printer in my family’s house has been here for atleast 10 years, we rarely need to fill it with ink. It lets you print black and white no issue when colors are out, doesn’t require connecting to servers, doesn’t have a chip to recognize if its name brand or knockoff ink. It’s been great.

My print heads on my Epson printer clogging up. The technician told me the reason for this was that I didn’t use it often enough and to stay away from inkjet printers unless I planned on using them more frequently.

Been a loyal Epson fan for nearly three decades. Had to send my previous all-in-one printer to the junkyard after Epson ditched cartridges, but my current tank-based unit is the most dependable model I've owned.