They sell you the first half of the printer cheap when you buy it. You then buy the second half at significant cost each time you run out of ink. I wonder if the cartridge has a software counter which switches it off after a certain number of prints? - wouldnt be too hard to do.
R Quoting Greg Twyford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Horst Herb wrote: > > > just don't buy any cheap toy inkjets - the initial price is comparable to > > equivalent Lasers, it's the running costs that are so much cheaper with > > inkjets > > Horst, > > Only if you're prepared to refill ink cartridges, which most of us won't > or can't do. > > I had an old Canon portable inkjet for ten years. The last cartridge > lasted 5, then the printer died. Increasingly inkjets have chips on the > cartridge which won't let refilled cartridges work. I dumped an Epson > for this reason a couple of years ago. > > How much time do you spend filling ink cartridges each month? > > Greg > > -- > Greg Twyford > Information Management & Technology Program Officer > Canterbury Division of General Practice > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ph.: 02 9787 9033 > Fax: 02 9787 9200 > > PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL > *********************************************************************** > The information contained in this e-mail and their attached files, > including replies and forwarded copies, are confidential and intended > solely for the addressee(s) and may be legally privileged or prohibited > from disclosure and unauthorised use. If you are not the intended > recipient, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, > modification, distribution and/or publication or any action taken or > omitted to be taken in reliance upon this message or its attachments is > prohibited. > > All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by > law. > *********************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
