Let's see.
Samsung 2150 worked great, for 5 years. Replaced one cartridge with refilled, and new chip, and got through that. At the end, messages wrong cartridge, etc. Had to pull the cartridge, replace, and reseat. Trashed it. Not worth repairing.
Xerox 130 is still going strong, 11 years old. Big, awkward, but cartridges aren't absurdly expensive, and, it just works.
HP 4000N is going on 11-12 years old, bought a new cartridge about 6 months ago, and, the HP software has been telling me it's out of ink, and I should replace the cartridge for about 12 months. Have a new cartridge sitting there, but, no need yet. It's over 75K pages.
Panasonic printer for Challenged Client. It's gone on 3-4 years, 60 bucks from Costco. First cartridge replacement was around 50 bucks, needs another, around 3-5K per cartridge. A long way from 17k for a 70 cartridge for HP 4000N.
C.C. has run through the second refill, and wonders what to do. Printer has a bit of a line in the middle of each printed page, a line caused by not printing. Don't know what it is, but, it's kind of noticeable.
I can't find a cheap Laser printer, anywhere near 60 bucks, that even comes close, that doesn't include a 'starter cartridge' then requiring another cartridge that is twice the cost of the printer.
On a side note: My cat just managed to hit the keyboard, highlight and blank half this page in less then a second. Had to use restore to replace the deleted stuff.
How did she do that????
