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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4 years ago I spent 250 on a proper color laser and never looked back.
Toner lasts for an ungodly number of pages and never dries up. It never needs any magic “cleaning cycle” that delays my printing for 5 minutes and consumes half the cartridge. It’s up and running in seconds. And the only problem I’ve ever had with it is the occasional beeping in the night and some stacks of paper in the output in the morning because my cat likes to walk around on the keypad.
The problem is most consumer level devices need to be as cheap and small as possible so quality is as low as humanly possible while lasting just long enough to rope you into ink purchases which you can then throw away because they’re not compatible with whatever you buy when this one craps out.
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