If you really want to pay less for printer ink you have to buy recycled ink cartridges which cost less and are way better for the environment. Go Inkpal!
Google "Lexmark printer counter reset", you can find a solution, then you have 5 working printers! donate to schools, or community service centers, and take the full deduction.
Oh, and stay away from Lex, they are number one on my s*it list.
What you describe is one of the "kill switch" techniques the printer boyz use, there are some whose counters are as low as 12,000 copies, and one I saw two years ago, stops at 5,000. Of course, after resetting the counter, they were both as good as new.
to Kaiyo4u, I'm really sorry to tell you this, but they all do it, the worst offenders, IMHO, being lexmark, epson, hp, and canon, in that order.
Never tried a Kodak printer, but I don't believe they would willingly buck the trend by offering something that is well made, without planned death sequences built in.
Try this one, actually there are thousands of pages, nearly all inkjet manufacturers do this, they insert a memory chip onto their cartridge that counts pages. At a certain number (different for each) they say "out of ink", even if the cartridge still contains a good anount (up to 20%) of ink.
The nastier companies' chips simply shut down your printer, and won't allow it to sense the cartridge, even if you refill it, this is where the count reset programs can save your printer.
Of course, the printer boyz are trying to sue you for refilling the cartridge rather than buy a new printer (which in many cases is less expensive than buying replacement cartridges)
www.techdirt.com/articles/20070619/101003.shtml
This just one page, I assure you there are thousands, many run by respected techs in the business. Also, I could, if I wished, admit to using the programs to "repair" printers for people.
Glad someone finally picked up on this. These ink carts are little more than robbery by the printer companies, and it is in fact as cheap to buy a new inexpensive printer than it is ink. How do you think these crooks earn their golden parachutes, duh, by robbing us blind.
Wow!!! But listen%u2026 There is also another little known fact. Through personal experience I learned that Cannon and Epson printers come with a counter that lets you print something like 50,000 pages regardless of content. Then the printer stops and gives you a message to the effect that your printer needs servicing through one of their authorized service centers. If you take the printer to the service center you will find that a new printer is a lot cheaper than the fix. But if you insist on getting ripped-off by having it fixed, they will run a utility that simply resets the counter back to zero and you go on your merry way. Such utility is available for free download at several www.whaaatever.org%u2019s that you can Google to find.
I needed to buy an ink cartridge for my Lexmark printer awhile back. $29.99. The exact same printer was being offered by a discounter for $28.99. The whole printer, with a new ink cartridge for $1.00 cheaper! If this doesn't tell us we're getting ripped off, I don't know what does. I now have five of these printers bought over a five month period because the printer was cheaper than the cartridge. I'll sell the printers for $5.00 each in my wife's next garage sale and make some of my money back. They're still in the box, just missing the ink cartridge.
Why not recycle your cartridges for a good cause? The Douglas County Dental Clinic in Lawrence, KS is a nonprofit clinic that serves the low-income, uninsured population of Douglas County, KS. We will gladly accept your empty cartridges and a company recycles them for us and gives us a donation of $4 per cartridge. Contact us at dcdclinic.com for more information on how to get a postage paid bag to donate your cartridges!
"Larry Magid On Ways To Stop Paying Thousands Of Dollars Per Gallon?" No, not really. He doesn't cover buying recycled cartridges, refilling your own cartridges, what works well, what doesn't, and printer software that balks at third-party cartridges (I believe Epsons do that). What utterly disappointing journalism. Perhaps we should blame bad headline writers. "Larry Magid Reviews Kodak EasyShare Printers" is accurate. Skip the deception, please.
I tried the Kodak printer, at Best Buy-er's Remorse, their exclusive distributor. It's output looked terrible. I'm willing to assume it was due to poor maintenance by the store, but I wasn't going to bet my money on that.
"That's not a typo. A Hewlett Packard 22 Tricolor Ink Cartridge holds only 5 milliliter of ink %u2013 one 757th of a gallon. Multiply that $17.99 price tag by 757 and you're paying $13,619.91 a gallon for ink. "
Wrong, $17.95 is not JUST the ink, there is a cartridge, and on HP those come with new print head nozzels. So you buy BULK ink, refill kits and save. My Canon Pixma is great and I get good prices on inks at re-inks.com 866-512-7162 including complete color kits for a special discount.
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Google "Lexmark printer counter reset", you can find a solution, then you have 5 working printers! donate to schools, or community service centers, and take the full deduction.
Oh, and stay away from Lex, they are number one on my s*it list.
What you describe is one of the "kill switch" techniques the printer boyz use, there are some whose counters are as low as 12,000 copies, and one I saw two years ago, stops at 5,000. Of course, after resetting the counter, they were both as good as new.
to Kaiyo4u, I'm really sorry to tell you this, but they all do it, the worst offenders, IMHO, being lexmark, epson, hp, and canon, in that order.
Never tried a Kodak printer, but I don't believe they would willingly buck the trend by offering something that is well made, without planned death sequences built in.
Like I said before, can I have Larry Magid's job?
Try this one, actually there are thousands of pages, nearly all inkjet manufacturers do this, they insert a memory chip onto their cartridge that counts pages. At a certain number (different for each) they say "out of ink", even if the cartridge still contains a good anount (up to 20%) of ink.
The nastier companies' chips simply shut down your printer, and won't allow it to sense the cartridge, even if you refill it, this is where the count reset programs can save your printer.
Of course, the printer boyz are trying to sue you for refilling the cartridge rather than buy a new printer (which in many cases is less expensive than buying replacement cartridges)
www.techdirt.com/articles/20070619/101003.shtml
This just one page, I assure you there are thousands, many run by respected techs in the business. Also, I could, if I wished, admit to using the programs to "repair" printers for people.
I tried the Kodak printer, at Best Buy-er's Remorse, their exclusive distributor. It's output looked terrible. I'm willing to assume it was due to poor maintenance by the store, but I wasn't going to bet my money on that.
Wrong, $17.95 is not JUST the ink, there is a cartridge, and on HP those come with new print head nozzels.
So you buy BULK ink, refill kits and save.
My Canon Pixma is great and I get good prices on inks at re-inks.com 866-512-7162
including complete color kits for a special discount.