[PCXL-Fan]

In one way the older printers are better. If you can get one used they don't have the anti-cartridge refill measures in place, and find a good source of black ink you can save lots of money.

Only use it as a secondary printer though for black and white draft text prints.

Then get a new modern printer for photo prints

 

[PCXL-Fan]

That's the only one thing I dislike about my Brother printer. Even if there's enough ink in the black cartridge to pump out at least 10 pages filled with text...it won't. It'll tell me to replace it before I can do anything.

So annoying

I think there are underground sites dedicated to finguring out means of bypassing certain of the modern printers.

someone did the calculation once, and found if you take the minuscule amount in the ink cartridge and multiply it enough to get a full barrel of printer ink it would cost +$200000 USD... while 1 barrel of oil costs ~$50 USD right now :lol: