William Morder wrote:
When one has literally no money to spend, one must make do with what is available. I hear what everybody is saying about laser printers, but that is not an option.
then go to the copy shop, you can print for about 5cent
There are refillable cartridges, and refill bottles. I doubt that they can dry up. My old HP cartridges dried up because they sat in a storage space for a couple years. These won't dry up (at least, not so fast), because I will use them now.
This is BS. Just compare cartridge price/printer price for ink and you'll see that in 2 years you spent more on cartridges
I'm only asking if anybody else has tried these refillables. I don't want advice that I *ought* to buy a laser printer, when I cannot do so.
Yes, they are complete BS - forget it!
Alternative could be dot matrix printer (it is a bit noisy), higher price, but low material cost. I bought one in 1996 and it is still working.
I bought HP 5L LJ in 1999 and I threw it away last year - it was not worth repearing. I bought two cartridges for €70,- each - makes 7€ per year for the cartridge. Just calculate total cost + material cost per intended period of use. You'll notice that prices have gone high in the past year, but most people can not calculate any way.
I now bought a HP 402dn which prints 40 times faster than the 5L and cost 200,-. The cartridge would cost 100,- in 5-10y, so I guess I will have avg. cost of 30,- per year - this is definitely not much. There are also cheaper LJ printers, but I like HP and can write it off anyway.
If you don't have money - earn money and buy something good instead a cheap sh*t that will give you headache - or just leave it.
regards