I just print my color photos at walgreens. You can just upload them to their site and go and pick them up at your local walgreens. It's phat.
The laser printer totally pays itself off really quickly because the cost of ink is so prohibitive. I have a cartridge in mine that I have had in for about two years. I print alot of scientific papers too.
I used to babysit the son of a guy who worked at HP. One day I toured the site for some reason, and hung out with him for a little while. He said his current project was trying to figure out how to get people to print out 5% more, because they make their money on the ink.
Jay made sure we bought a canon printer that takes relatively cheap cartridges and then he buys them in a huge bundle off ebay. I think he said it ends up being $2 a cartridge.
I share in your pain as yesterday I couldn't print stuff out due to cartridges being out of ink. You'd think there'd be an emergency mode, where whatever colors you DO have would use to print in whatever grayscale, bluescale, redscale that worked. Of course not. hrmph.
Our printer is nice. It's also got fax, scanner, and photocopy functions, all for $200. Of course the reason it was so inexpensive is because of the amount of money we have to spend on ink to use the damn thing.
We just got back from Best Buy. Grabbed cyan and magenta cartridges and looked at printers. Dale's going to do more research online and decide if we'd be better off getting a new printer, but for the immediate future, we needed the ink.
Take away D's geek card. A real man would hack that stuff w/o whining that its in the printer memory. I thought the boy had some black arts... Gib-nada
Dale's a geek, not a hacker. And you really think we haven't looked into various ways to overcome this? There is apparently a set of drivers for Mac and Linux that can do true grayscale printing, but it costs 50 Euro and it's not available for PC anyway.
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The laser printer totally pays itself off really quickly because the cost of ink is so prohibitive. I have a cartridge in mine that I have had in for about two years. I print alot of scientific papers too.
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I used to babysit the son of a guy who worked at HP. One day I toured the site for some reason, and hung out with him for a little while. He said his current project was trying to figure out how to get people to print out 5% more, because they make their money on the ink.
Jay made sure we bought a canon printer that takes relatively cheap cartridges and then he buys them in a huge bundle off ebay. I think he said it ends up being $2 a cartridge.
I share in your pain as yesterday I couldn't print stuff out due to cartridges being out of ink. You'd think there'd be an emergency mode, where whatever colors you DO have would use to print in whatever grayscale, bluescale, redscale that worked. Of course not. hrmph.
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We just got back from Best Buy. Grabbed cyan and magenta cartridges and looked at printers. Dale's going to do more research online and decide if we'd be better off getting a new printer, but for the immediate future, we needed the ink.
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