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InkJet Printers Lying, Or Just Wrong?
akkarin writes in about a study reported at Ars Technica on how accurate ink-jet printers are when they report that cartridges are empty. Not very, it turns out. Epson came out on top of the study (and Ars rightly questions how objective it was, given that Epson paid for it), but even they waste 20% of the ink if users take the printers' word for when to get a new cartridge. On average, the printers in the study wasted more than half the ink that users bought.
So you do know that laser printers dont use 'ink' and that toner is a dry powder right?
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
Oh My Fucking God. What a fucking surprise that is ripping us off.
Couldn't /. just have a big list of companies, the products they sell and then have a cron job that spews out posts about how company X rips off users with product Y?
Is this even news any more?
monk.e.boy
Open source, flash charts
I have a Canon i550 printer. One day the printer prompted me to change catridges as the ink has ran out. I ignored the warning and continued to print. I did it several times over different occassions because I believed the catridge was not completely empty. Then one day when I printed some stuff, the ink head moved but nothing was printed. I thought it had really ran out of ink so I bought another original ink catridge.
To my horror, nothing was printed, even though the printer driver reported a full ink catridge. I did several rounds of ink head cleaning but it still couldn't print.
I sent it to Canon for repair. The checked and told me my ink head was DAMAGED. I asked how the hell could the ink head got damaged when I used original Canon catridges? They eventually found out that I had forced forcefully used a depleted catridge on my printer, and they attributed that to be the cause of the damage.
In the end, I paid for a new inkhead, which cost more than 3 packs of new catridges. If only I had changed the catridges earlier!
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