Re: Who Knows Hardware?

On 2024-12-18, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:47:55 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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And, when the pritner does this again, I'll pay $10 for the reset code
because it's a good printer. Epson has turned into a crappy company.

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Epson always was a crappy company. They embraced the Kodak principle of
selling the printer at or below cost and rape you on the ink. I don't
print often enough so ink jet printers have always been a problem for me.
After a few episodes with ammonia and a toothbrush every time you want to
print something you give up. My Samsung CLP-315 solved the problem. It
says a lot that I haven't replaced the toner. Either I really don't print
much or the Samsung came with full toner cartridges rather than Epson's
usual test drive filling.

That's what really ticked me off about this printer. They sold it at a
higher price, specifically emphasizing the value of the cheaper ink. I
assumed they did this because they were tired of losing supply revenue to
generic ink makers. And their ink is relatively cheap. We've always bought
OEM ink with this one because the price is reasonable and the quality is
good. What they didn't tell us is that they have a meter that shuts down
the printer down at a certain number of printed pages.

We had a Brother color laser printer, but we couldn't keep the heads aligned
worth a dang. I like Brother b/w laser printers, but not that color one. The
toner was also very expensive. My wife prints colored charts (and laminates
some of them) for her students. The ink jet does a better job with these
than a color laser printer. So the Epson ink printer works really well for
what she needs. I'll pay the $10 to fully reset the meter when the time
comes that it quits on us again. It's been going for quite a while on the
partial reset. I still don't like this tactic, however.

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