Every home printer I’ve owned, regardless of the brand, has been difficult to set up in the first place and then will stop working from time to time without an obvious reason until it eventually craps out. Even when consistently using the maintenance functions.
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The fundamental issue is that the printers themselves are sold at a loss, and the ink is sold for huge profits. This gives companies zero incentive to make the printer actually good, instead trying to make them as cheap as possible while still having a competitive price point, while also making ink the most inconvenient thing ever so that you have to buy a lot of it.
I’ve found that if you’re willing to go for the higher end more expensive printers, at a price point where they actually might make some profit, then they aren’t nearly as bad.
I feel like things really went south for printers when they forced you to use WiFi and you could no longer connect them to USB.
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