On Wednesday 27 June 2018 10:52:04 deloptes wrote: > William Morder wrote: > > When one has literally no money to spend, one must make do with what is > > available. I hear what everybody is saying about laser printers, but that > > is not an option. > > then go to the copy shop, you can print for about 5cent > > > There are refillable cartridges, and refill bottles. I doubt that they > > can dry up. My old HP cartridges dried up because they sat in a storage > > space for a couple years. These won't dry up (at least, not so fast), > > because I will use them now. > > This is BS. Just compare cartridge price/printer price for ink and you'll > see that in 2 years you spent more on cartridges > > > I'm only asking if anybody else has tried these refillables. I don't want > > advice that I *ought* to buy a laser printer, when I cannot do so. > > Yes, they are complete BS - forget it! > > Alternative could be dot matrix printer (it is a bit noisy), higher price, > but low material cost. I bought one in 1996 and it is still working. > > I bought HP 5L LJ in 1999 and I threw it away last year - it was not worth > repearing. I bought two cartridges for €70,- each - makes 7€ per year for > the cartridge. Just calculate total cost + material cost per intended > period of use. You'll notice that prices have gone high in the past year, > but most people can not calculate any way. > > I now bought a HP 402dn which prints 40 times faster than the 5L and cost > 200,-. The cartridge would cost 100,- in 5-10y, so I guess I will have avg. > cost of 30,- per year - this is definitely not much. There are also cheaper > LJ printers, but I like HP and can write it off anyway. > > If you don't have money - earn money and buy something good instead a cheap > sh*t that will give you headache - or just leave it. > > regards > The only way that I can earn money (real money) is by writing, which means that I need to be able to print out. I hear what you are saying, but I guess we can stop this thread now, because what people are saying is irrelevant to my situation. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
