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When printer ink is more expensive than buying a new printer (leminal.space)

submitted 9 months ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 35 points 9 months ago

STOP FUCKING BUYING INKJETS. Listen I've worked in retail for a few years now. I constantly have motherfuckers ask what they should get, I point to a $150 laser printer with much better print quality, toner can't dry out, gives you thousands of pages instead of a couple hundred, and bitches will STILL pick up the fucking $50 printer with $80 ink refills instead.

Laser printers are orders of magnitude better than inkjets in so many ways. Stop buying fucking inkjets.

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

It really depends on your needs though. Yes, if you are printing documents, then laser is the only way to go.

But if you are printing pictures, then inkjet is by far the better choice.

Though in most people's situation, they could probably just use laser for 98% of their needs, and then go to Walgreens for picture printing.

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

It's often more economical to get pictures printed from a professional place anyways. Most people don't have a use case where being able to print bulk pictures makes sense. Usually it's a "just in case" feature that people use twice a year.