the cheap wifi lexmarks ar walmart seem to hold ink, mines been in my garage for a year and a half and atill prints
On Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 11:06 AM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > We have two printers, which are relatively old. > > One is a positively ancient HP 2035n laserjet. It's about 15 years old, > and has been amazingly reliable. Toner cartridges are about $70 to $100 > and they last quite a while. Maybe 2 or 3 thousand pages. Strictly black > and white. > > The second is an HP 8600 officejet. Not as old as the laserjet, but at > least 10 years old. It's also been very reliable. Occasionally one of > the print cartridges will clog from dis-use, but running a cleaning > cycle clears it up at the cost of a sheet of paper or two. Ink > cartridges are ridiculously expensive at about $30-$40 per cartridge, > which only hold a few grams of ink. There are 4 cartridges (black, cyan, > magenta, & yellow), so a full set runs up to $160. > > Recently the laserjet has been experiencing a problem where it will drop > offline for no apparent reason. Power cycling it will revive it for a > little while, but it's becoming a PITA. > > So we are looking at tank printers, which can be had for around $300, > and often a lot less depending on what you want from it (print, copy, > scan, fax). We need all 4 of those, so we are looking at one that can do > all 4 for about $300. The bottles of ink only cost about $20, and they > last for nearly 8,000 pages. According to the makers, the ink does not > dry out because it's thermally activated. > > So we are considering replacing both with an HP 7602, which does it all, > print, copy, scan, fax, auto sheet feeder, 2-sided printing; the whole > ball of wax. They are telling us that the included ink will last 2 > years; probably more based on what we use it for. It only prints about > 15 pages a minute (half the speed of our laserjet), but that's not an > issue for us. The cost of ink/toner should make up for it, and we'll > only have one printer to deal with. > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 7/23/2025 8:28 AM, Nate Burke wrote: > > I'm looking for a (hopefully cheap) printer/scanner to leave at my > > Mom's house. It will only be used every couple months make 2 or 3 > > copies of documents. I'm guessing that Ink jet printers will dry out > > with that long between uses. Do laser printers have the same issues? > > I haven't had a laser printer just sit idle for that long. > > > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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