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other people
Jun 27, 2004
Associate Christ
If I must buy an inkjet printer then which brand has the least lovely cartridges and ink prices and poo poo? I don't want to pay a monthly subscription to make the thing work.

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other people
Jun 27, 2004
Associate Christ
Sounds like a yes to me

other people
Jun 27, 2004
Associate Christ

redreader posted:

I want a printer so I can print the very occasional form, sign it, and email it back. Or so that I can print RMA package slips sometimes. I really don't need a built in scanner but I suppose it would be nice to have.

There are services like dochub.com which let you upload and "sign" a PDF and save the results. I use this all the time when people email me poo poo to sign. No printer or scanner required.

Doesn't help for your RMA use case but surely you're not doing that too often.

other people
Jun 27, 2004
Associate Christ
Welp I bought an epson ecotank (ET-2750) last month and after printing maybe 80 pages it now displays an error code and refuses to print.

Shows code E-01 and then below that the first time it included a number 000041 and after turning it off and back on it shows E-01 again with 034004.


We've already tossed out the box/packaging. I'm looking forward to the joys of the warranty process. god drat it.

other people fucked around with this message at 12:07 on May 20, 2020

other people
Jun 27, 2004
Associate Christ
I bought an epson inktank printer and it broke within a month and now it is at the warranty repair shop and I hope I get it back before Lockdown 2 Electric Boogaloo because we'll probably need to print poo poo for the kid's online learning.

The printer was totally fine before it broke though!

other people
Jun 27, 2004
Associate Christ
God drat it I hate printers.

We have an Epson ET-2750 and it is brimming with ink but now whenever I try to print something or do a nozzle cleaning or whatever it seems like everything is going fine but it produces a completely blank sheet of paper. It's like a lame prank.

Other than banging and shaking it I have no idea wtf else to do. God drat it I hate printers.

other people
Jun 27, 2004
Associate Christ

other people posted:

God drat it I hate printers.

We have an Epson ET-2750 and it is brimming with ink but now whenever I try to print something or do a nozzle cleaning or whatever it seems like everything is going fine but it produces a completely blank sheet of paper. It's like a lame prank.

Other than banging and shaking it I have no idea wtf else to do. God drat it I hate printers.

Turns out it still prints colours fine. just not black.

So I'll start jostling the black ink tank now I guess.

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other people
Jun 27, 2004
Associate Christ
All printers suck poo poo but at least the current epson ink tank models don't have cartridges so that whole stupid dance is done with.

If one of the ink tanks is empty does the scanner still work? I actually have no idea because after ~2 years of ownership all the tanks on ours are still pretty much full. I can't imagine how many tens of thousands of pages you would have to print to drain it.

It is sort of annoying because if you don't print for a few months then you have to print a few head cleaning pages to get it back up to speed but that uses so little ink it hasn't been a big deal for us.

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