I thought I’d buy a new inkjet printer since my old one either didn’t like the ink refills I was feeding it, or was knackered. I avoided the cheapest £20 HP down at PC World since that one came with ‘special’ starter ink cartridges that don’t last long. Thanks for the honesty, but I thought I’d pay twice as much and get a Lexmark which has a copier too. I didn’t notice anything about low reservoir tanks written on the box of the Lexmark and bought it half expecting the worst but hoping the ink rip-off situation had changed a little since I was last buying inkjets.
Got home to discover they only supply one cartridge, the colour one. You have to buy a new black cartridge if you want black, until which time the colour one will produce washed out black, presumably consuming vast quantities of each colour in the process. So I went to Rymans and tried to buy a new black cartridge. My model wasn’t listed in their book (perhaps because its new) but their best guess was a cartridge that was compatible with that range of Lexmark numbers onwards. It cost me £22 – over half the cost of the ‘king printer already. It went in the printer okay but the printer software rejected it.
Flip, I'm going to be shelling out more on ink than the cost of the printer before I even start to use it. The scams printer manufacturers pull with ink (possibly the most expensive liquid in existence) isn’t funny any more
Got home to discover they only supply one cartridge, the colour one. You have to buy a new black cartridge if you want black, until which time the colour one will produce washed out black, presumably consuming vast quantities of each colour in the process. So I went to Rymans and tried to buy a new black cartridge. My model wasn’t listed in their book (perhaps because its new) but their best guess was a cartridge that was compatible with that range of Lexmark numbers onwards. It cost me £22 – over half the cost of the ‘king printer already. It went in the printer okay but the printer software rejected it.
Flip, I'm going to be shelling out more on ink than the cost of the printer before I even start to use it. The scams printer manufacturers pull with ink (possibly the most expensive liquid in existence) isn’t funny any more
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