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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Who Knows Hardware?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:50:55 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-18, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:47:55 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> 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.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien