The first step in buying ANY printer is to look at ink costs. That probably means looking at third party cartridges, refilling and if there is chip to prevent refills like HP has.
thanks JK At 11:31 PM 10/27/2016, you wrote: >Russell Senior wrote: > > The subject line is partly a joke. I have an HP Deskjet 932c, probably > > 10 years old or something vaguely like that. The ink cartridges are > > about shot (currently blue instead of black, morphing into a red). A > > replacement set of ink (HP 78/45) is about $80, which is close to a new > > printer. The printer is attached to an Ubuntu box, printing occurs > > through CUPS. > > > > Advice? >Advice? ... no, maybe not ... my hp officejet 7310 broke beyond repair >(>5 years old) ... bought (on sale) an hp officejet pro 8710 for $109 >CAD, but the ink (4 separate cartridges) is priced at $30 CAD/cartridge >(total $120 CAD) ... sigh > >_______________________________________________ >PLUG mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
