Printers - Are In-Cartridge Printheads Better?

koelpien asks: "I am a tightwad geek who likes to print photos without spending lots of money on OEM ink cartridges. Both Epson and HP have let me down; HP doesn't have a lot of third party cartridges available, and refilling the OEM's is a pain, especially resetting the ink level counter. Epson is just as bad, with cheap low-cost cartridges available, yet using them will often clog the heads, needing multiple ink-depleting cleaning cycles to restore proper flow. I am on the market for a new printer, and want to know which technology most Slashdot users happy with, in relation to printer brand and the use of third-party or refillable inks. Is one technology superior to the others, or are printers mostly the same?"

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Re:Tightwads ought to know

[fm6]

That's very interesting... but nobody mentioned photo printing.

You fucking queer

[FrogAlarmClock]

Fuck, where do you get off on all of this? You people have willingly tossed your very humanity into the swirling abyss just so you could obtain the knowledge of printers of all things? What force compelled you to throw away your life on computer printers? While you may not be the most attractive or witty of people, it's not like using Linux was ever going to improve your odds. Think, you people may have once had the chance to get married, have kids and actually live a happy life, but instead you just had to go to the high school's computer club and destroy your life right then and there. You are ghouls, nonhumans, living piles of trash which only serve to deplete our natural resources faster. I hope your parents kick you out of your basement and force you to at the very least start paying rent. Maybe then you will start to adopt concepts such as responsibility and hard work that the rest of us picked up during high school while you were arguing with your friends about open source.