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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Because every home printer you’ve ever purchased was a “loss leader”.
It was a machine priced *way* under the cost to manufacture it, but also manufactured to be as cheap as possible, because quality printers cost more than any average consumer would ever be willing to pay.
Would you pay $2000 for a printer?
No, you wouldn’t.
And that’s why the printers you buy are garbage.
Printer makers are incentivized to screw you over as much as possible. That’s why they just refuse to print a black and white page when the cyan is low.
Stop buying home printers. Stop falling for the grift. Just pay 20¢ a page to print at Staples (or cheaper, maybe free, at your local library, which is what I do).
If you think you’re saving money buying a home printer for $120, you’re not. You’re paying out the ass for ink/toner.
If you’re not printing at home enough that the cost of a *good* industrial printer makes financial sense, you’ll save money printing at Staples.
I haven’t owned a printer in about 20 years. I print… more than the average person needs to (I’m a private music teacher) and I’ve probably spent less than $20 a year on printing.
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