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What an f'in rip off these things are. Where do you guys order yours from? I don't want to do that refill deal though.
 
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I don't think there is any way around it other than getting a laser printer which doesn't need to change ink as often (but it costs a bit more)
 

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All laser here and we buy the plain wrap from Staples. The refilling of ink cartridges killed the last two machines.
 

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There are places you can get the TCO reports on almost every printer out there. It's a great resource to use before you buy a printer. I bought an Epson CX4200 for home a year and a half ago, one for my office last summer and one for our church office last year. They're all dead now. So I replaced my office printer with a Canon MF500. I won't buy an HP inkjet because they rake you over the coals for ink.

I should also add that we have several HP & Epson high end inkjets at the school and they go through tons of ink.
 

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I've been happy with my HP 5550 although I do such a small amount of printing. I might use two cartridges a year so I guess I shouldn't really care.
 

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Seems to print in a green hue when printing in gray scale. Think I will go back to the good ones and not save 5 bucks
 

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Yea, I'm not sure what it is...maybe a dud, something wacky with the printer

it prints pages fine but pics, even in grayscale come out weird...I think it might be the color so im gonna swap that out
 
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The sales clerk at Staples recently talked me into buying the Staples brand black ink cartridge for my Lexmark at a slightly lower cost than the Lexmark brand, claiming theirs had much more ink and would last longer.
I put the new cartridge in the night before last and it ran out last night right in the middle of a batch of coffee bag labels, ruining about half of them (since I wasn't paying attention). I'm pissed. Granted, I was doing some heavy duty printing between labels and brochures but no more than I'd been doing the past week or two with the Lexmark cartridge.
The brochures eat a lot of ink so I got a price for Staples to print them for me. .78 cents apiece for two-sided color trifold! I think that comes out to much more than Lexmark ink cartridges. I need to find a good print shop.
 
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