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Atomic Shrimp - The Dirty Little Secret Of Inkjet Printers

alainjournalist rated 6 months agoFeatured Review
I hadn't realized just how the ink was wasted in inkjet printers, but I've always known they are way more expensive than a laser. I have never owned an inkjet printer for this reason. It's also way cheaper to bring your pictures in to some place like Costco to have them printed. Th...

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japroach rated 6 months ago
This is an epson inkjet, which are horrible at wasting ink. I'm sure others are not much better. But anyone who is using an inkjet to regularly print text deserves this.
andymid rated 6 months ago
This is unbelievable.
bobinator2000 rated 6 months ago
Wow. That's not wasteful at all. I'm sure they could come up with a different way of cleaning them.
BlkDragon96 rated 6 months ago
Why didn't we see this coming when we looked at the printer packaging and read 'INK JET' as in, THE THINGS JETS INK (out its print head to clean it, and therefore wastes alot of it)..?
cinrod1965 rated 6 months ago
OMG I'm never buying another injet printer! I'll splurge for the lazer printer for now on.
Dylian17 rated 6 months ago
My GOODNESS!! I have almost the same printer and I just get why my printer eats a lot of ink!! :'(
Gilman rated 6 months ago
another ink marketing technique
cholling rated 6 months ago
Sure, it sounds bad, and I certainly wouldn't put it past the printer companies to deliberately implement ink-wasting features (thanks to their cheap printer/expensive ink cartridge marketing strategy, and the fact that they've cracked down on those who offer compatible cartridges or refilling kits). But I'd like a little more research: do we know for a fact that the printer is deliberately wasting ink, or is this amount of head cleaning actually necessary? (I've certainly seen enough blocked nozzles in inkjet printers; another reason to prefer laser).
Rgon rated 6 months ago
I can't say I'm convinced that this quality of ink-jets is unnecessary as the site implies.
JohnShepler rated 6 months ago
Wonder where all your expensive ink went? Not as far as you thought.