The best cheap printer with cheap ink... Advice needed.

[AlexGT]

This might be helpful

Ink Refill Kit For Brother LC203, LC205, LC207, LC209 Cartridges

[raccoon]

I ordered some ink off of eBay.

The Brother ink costs about double that of the Canon ink for the old printer.

It's still reasonable, but I hope it lasts longer.

[raccoon]

I can't believe this...

The Canon I was considering is now $32 on eBay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-PIXMA-MX922-Wireless-Inkjet-Office-All-In-One-WiFi-Printer-CD-DVD-Printing/183345455677

That's a tremendous deal if you want that popular model.

EDIT: Nevermind.

It looks like a scam.

[UDO]

I hope you didnt order this last one as is 99,9% a scam. Only 6 feedbacks as a seller and the last one was more than a year ago…The price is simply to good to be true.

[raccoon]

No, I didn't order it.

I'm going to stick with the Brother printer I bought.

[sp5it]

Cheap “ink” printer is laser printer. End of story.
Mike

[pennzy]

@raccoon city

I ordered some ink off of eBay.

The Brother ink costs about double that of the Canon ink for the old printer.

It’s still reasonable, but I hope it lasts longer.

The inks for mine come in low and high capacity.Maybe you bought the high.

[Lightbringer]

@raccoon city

A lot of manufacturers do make little money on the printer, and plenty of money on the ink.

“Give away the razors, make money on the blades.”

That’s been around for centuries.

Razor and blades model

[Lightbringer]

@Joshk

If you buy a new printer for the new ink cartridge, check the fill. Usually the cartridges it comes with new printers are full sized… but only filled 10% full!

Yeh, “starter” cartridges.

Don’t even get me started on chipped carts.

[Lightbringer]

@UDO

I hope you didnt order this last one as is 99,9% a scam. Only 6 feedbacks as a seller and the last one was more than a year ago…The price is simply to good to be true.

Maybe it’s the p-p-p-printer that goes with the P-P-P-Powerbook.

[raccoon]

@UDO

I hope you didnt order this last one as is 99,9% a scam. Only 6 feedbacks as a seller and the last one was more than a year ago...The price is simply to good to be true.

I think you're right.

Sorry everyone!

I sometimes don't recognize scams very well.

[raccoon]

@Lightbringer

“Give away the razors, make money on the blades.”

That’s been around for centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_and_blades_model

What's really sad is that I use a Norelco electric razor.

Once the blades become dull, you'd think that buying Norelco brand replacement blades would be a good idea.

But I have read that even the real brand's replacement blades are greatly inferior to the blades that come with the electric razor.

So I am forced to buy an all new electric razor!

Luckily I am happy with an older model that is dirt cheap on eBay.

[raccoon]

Now the Brother MFC-J480DW is $30 at Office Depot!

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/274381/Brother-Wireless-Color-Inkjet-All-In/

[pennzy]

Ordered, thanks.

[raccoon]

I forgot to mention...

If you intend to use third-party ink in a Brother printer, then do not update the firmware.

And if the printer asks to go online, tell it no.

Otherwise you may have to use only expensive Brother ink.

[Joshk]

Raccoon, I was curious if you decided on refilling or buying 3rd party inks for your Brother?

[raccoon]

@Joshk

Raccoon, I was curious if you decided on refilling or buying 3rd party inks for your Brother?

I bought third-party ink.

[pennzy]

@raccoon city

I forgot to mention…

If you intend to use third-party ink in a Brother printer, then do not update the firmware.

And if the printer asks to go online, tell it no.

Otherwise you may have to use only expensive Brother ink.

Does that mean the new ones can only use Brother inks?

[sb56637]

@mattheww1950

The higher end Epson Printers that use the ‘eco-tank’ technolgoy are reasonbly good, and use ink that comes in bottles and goes into a tank. The bad news is these start at about $240. Because the printer price reflects the real cost of manufacture, there is no need to recover the cost via the cost of ink cartridges so on a per page bases, they are much less expensive to use than any of the ink cartridge printers… However none of the inkjet printer work very well unless they are used frequently. None of the color lasers can produce photo quality images, but none of them care very much whether you use them daily or monthly, the ink jet printers generally don’t work well with only occasional use. So I have an Epson that I use for photos, but understand I am going to need fresh cartridges almost every time. I only use it on rare occasions. For things that don’t need photo quality is use an HP laserjet Pro. High initial cost, but pretty low per page cost. Any printer that uses a cartridge and drop on demand technology are going to be expensive per page. Drop on demand cartridge have very finite life compared to ‘pump’ driven ink jet printers.

I would second this recommendation for an Epson EcoTank printer, I prefer to pay a bit more up front for the printer instead of getting gouged for ink. The newer models come with a full set of ink bottles that are good for like 7500 pages, and from there refill bottles only cost like $10 - $15.

[raccoon]

@pennzy

Does that mean the new ones can only use Brother inks?

As far as I can tell, the new Brother MFC-J480DW's are fine.

I did not research other models.