Comment Re:Printers, feh! (Score 1) 1025
And slow doesn't begin to describe it. The way it appears to recalibrate every time I start a new print job appears to indicate they knew it would run into problems eventually and try to correct itself.
It's actually priming the ink. There is no automatic calibration with your printer. The only calibration is the manually aligned page you can print.
This was ~$300 printer when I bought it. An equivilent printer off the shelf is about $124 now. Total cost of a set of carts, from a discount seller, $55-$60, YMMV.
This is true of almost anything, though. Prices drop when technology moves forward. Your printer, compared with today's, is not top of the line. When you bought it, it was right up there with the best. Ink will always be expensive. :)
It's actually priming the ink. There is no automatic calibration with your printer. The only calibration is the manually aligned page you can print.
This was ~$300 printer when I bought it. An equivilent printer off the shelf is about $124 now. Total cost of a set of carts, from a discount seller, $55-$60, YMMV.
This is true of almost anything, though. Prices drop when technology moves forward. Your printer, compared with today's, is not top of the line. When you bought it, it was right up there with the best. Ink will always be expensive.
