- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.ml
In this video, a Canon print cartridge is opened up and revealed not to contain the meagre 11.9 ml (0.4 fl oz) of ink it is advertised. The proposed solution is to buy a printer designed to be manually refilled with bottles of ink (such as the featured Epson EcoTank ET-2850), though it has only been tested briefly.
An ecotank printer is the best printer I ever bought. I rarely print anything. Like a few times a year. My biggest problem with the cartridge printers wasn’t that I would run out of ink, they would just dry out and not work after extended periods of non-use. So to print my few pages every now and then I would have to spend $50 on cartridges. Not really worth it. The ecotank has a flush option that clears out the printing head. So if it did have an issue it would clear I out. Usually it was just fine after sitting 6 months. And a refill is like $30. 3 years in I have yet to have e to refill it. And the printer was only like $70
I’m also using a brother with ink tanks. So far, very happy. I noticed it auto cleans the heads every other day around noon or so, without asking. So far really happy with its performance, although the Linux implementation for the scanner leaves to be desired, and the windows version is also hit or miss.