Ink costs more than the price of the machine

>Ink costs more than the price of the machine
>Machine is DRM'd and will report its out of ink when it isn't to make you buy more
>Downloading drivers will install adware that shows ads telling you to buy more int
Jesus christ why are printers so awful?

Printers, the Jew of the computing world

Printers are awful but don't buy HP printers, they're garbage.

Print mostly black and white? Get a laser printer
Print mostly colours? Get a CISS inkjet printer

Apt

You are right. But as far as I remember, inkjet printers came long after normal printers

Here in Brazil we just say fuck it and recharge the printing cartridges ourselves. There's one computer repair shop near my house that does it, it costs less than 1/6th of a new cartridge/toner.

Don't buy an inkjet
Use off-brand toner cartridges. $5 for the one in your pic.

Tbh printers are fairly complex machinery you get what you pay for. but who even uses them anymore just print at work/school/or library

Why do you have to have a printer?
I just print at work if I need to print something.

>don't use the thing for a few months and the dried up ink blocks the printing heads, making the whole thing useless
that's doesn't always work, there are some that have a memory on the cartridge that only allows X amount of pages printed with no way to reset the coutner

just write your own drivers

btw off-brand ink increases the chance of blocked print heads

Why do you use suicide showers there? I was once, and this shit felt like electrical chair. Or it helps to kill bacteria and shit?

Refill toner usually comes with formatted chips you can replace.
Never buy a printer where printhead is separate from the toner cartridges

>Never buy a printer
Loud and clear

>the jew of the computing world

apart from a couple operational systems and assorted software, who isn't?

>Refill toner usually comes with formatted chips you can replace.
I had covered chip with tape and printer started printing without any refilling...

recommend me a good cheap printer.

You can do this with samsung color laser printer drum as well

HP P1005

I did on Samsung. Very strange printer, but it works.

no hp, no epson

Why arent you just extracting the .inf file and using device manager to install just the driver for your printer instead of using their shit installer.

Only idiots buy $100 inkjets that break every 2 years. Spend little more and get a laser printer that will save you more money in the long run.

Helps regulating the heart's electrical signals

Printers are so awful that I'm really considering buying a typewriter

Actually the printer on your pic is good printer for a basic black laser printer. Cheap compatible cartridge are available, and you should use the minimal driver install to not have to deal with the HP bullshit.

The biggest scam in computing are inkjet printers for the consumer market. Companies shit them out for cheap and people buy them and they get fucked up in a few months because the average home user doesn't print very often so the ink dries inside the printer and fucks it. All the average person needs is a laser printer that won't fuck itself because it's not printing every week and will last years printing black and white. The average normalfag is uninformed and will be buy 5 $50 inkjet printers over 3 years rather than buy 1 $100 and use it for the next 10 years or more.

>rather than buy 1 $100 laser printer and use it for the next 10 years or more***

I have an industrial sized printer I use for photography. The ink cost more than the machine, despite the fact that it came with free ink.

inkjet printers around here cost $40. the cartridges cost $65.

Anything brother.

>always bitching about ink/muh 6 million
>expensive to keep around
>will choose to fuck you over at the least opportune time
>speaks archaic tongue which sounds disgusting (postscript/hebrew)
>doesn't play well with other components of a computer, but demands you use them anyways

Why are you such a retard?

Brother are the only good manufacturer

don't buy HP Epson or Samsung

Only get Canon if you want higher print quality

Used laser or business printers with less drm are pretty good though

Whatcha gonna do about it, stop printing stuff?

Yeah, thought so bruv.