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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Who Knows Hardware?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:55:23 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-12-18 à 14:19, rbowman a écrit :
>> 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.
>
> The Epson 440 inkjet I bought in 1999 or so managed about three prints 
> before it ran out of ink. I never bothered to buy another ink cartridge 
> for it.

These Espons I'm talking don't have replaceable cartridges. You just buy the 
ink. They're called EccoTank printers. Basically the same system we used to 
print signs and banners at the print shop where I worked, except on a much 
smaller scale.

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“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