Website review: Study: Inkjet printers are filthy,...
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- eskimowarlord rated 7 months ago
- I miss dot matrix printers. Use them until the ribbon won't print anymore. No ink warnings, no CPU hoarding software.
thunderbay rated 13 months ago
Epson commissioned a study on inkjet cartridge efficiency and found that single ink cartridges are more efficient than multi-ink cartridges. They also found that on average, more than half of the ink from inkjet cartridges is wasted because users are tossing the cartridges when their printers are telling them they're out of ink, not when they necessarily are out of ink.
- parvez rated 13 months ago
- From the page: "The study by TÃoeV Rheinland looked at inkjet efficiency across multiple brands, including Epson (who commissioned the study), Lexmark, Canon, HP, Kodak, and Brother. They studied the efficiency of both single and multi-ink cartridges. Espon's printers were among the highest rated, at more than 80 percent efficiency using single-ink cartridges. Kodak's EasyShare 5300 was panned as the worst printer tested, wasting 64 percent of its ink in tests. TÃoeV Rheinland measured cartridge weights before and after use, stopping use when printers reported that they were out of ink. That's the first problem. Printers routinely report that they are low on ink even when they aren't, and in some cases there are still hundreds of pages worth of ink left. The second issue is a familiar one: multi-ink cartridges can be rendered "empty" when only one color runs low. Multi-ink cartridges store three to five colors in a single cartridge. Printing too many photos from the air show will kill your cartridge faster than you can say "blue skies," as dominant colors (say, "blue") are used faster than the others. Therein lies the reason Epson backed the study: the company is singing the praises of its single-ink cartridge approach, an approach which is necessarily more efficient in terms of wasted ink because there's only one color per cartridge, and thus only one cartridge to replace when that color runs out."
- tharglet rated 13 months ago
- Hence why I ignore what my printer says :)
- Draconis rated 13 months ago
- Inkjet printers are the biggest scams on consumers and the companies continue to put in countermeasures in both printer AND cartridge to not allow ink refilling. Look...I don't care if the images suffer a little, most of the stuff I print is disposable, for important stuff, I'll crack open a new ink cartridge. A good friend turned me onto laser printers which are still relatively easy to refill.
