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Spend the extra money, buy an eco tank, or tank styled printer, then buy after market ink and the refill kit.

This has been the answer to that particular scam for well over a decade now, there's just no excuse anymore and crying about it is dumb. "I wanted to buy a 49 dollar printer!", well, the reason they sell it to you below fucking cost is to lock you into their ecosystem because the margins on the ink carts are nuts and that's how they make money. Printers not stuck in that paradigm have been available for a long time, but yes they actually cost money today.
 
I always had HP printers, probably 25+ years, but when the last one finally died earlier this year, I switched to Epson EcoTank ET-5880. Cartridge prices were bad enough with HP, but I always thought that ink subscription thing they pushed sounded super scammy.
 
StormChaserBH said:
I always had HP printers, probably 25+ years, but when the last one finally died earlier this year, I switched to Epson EcoTank ET-5880. Cartridge prices were bad enough with HP, but I always thought that ink subscription thing they pushed sounded super scammy.
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The Canon mega tanks are good too, same idea as the Epson's. The only cartridge based printers I've used in ages are my Pro-200's and Pro-1000 that I use for my business. Expensive to run, but cheaper than sending out print jobs to the lab most of the time.
 
LeafGm said:
Whatever soulless evil sales/marketing hack that came up with this shit should be cast into the same depths of hell as the people who came up with the idea to physically install features in cars, but deny the end users access to them unless they sign up for a subscription to it.
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Hear me out though.....what if BMW would sell you a 335 for 20K, but it required an ongoing subscription to unlock the features that make it a 80K car? Because that's the parallel here. The manufacturers are just responding to market signals they received years ago from consumers.

I don't like the model either, but the complaints about the model are from people who don't want to be informed consumers. Printers are maybe the worst example of this from a profit margin standpoint, but printer manufacturers figured out 20 years ago that people didn't want to pay what the printers were actually worth and wanted a magic machine with all of the features for 89 dollars. So they said ok, here you go, this is how we can give that to you. The entire time the manufacturers have made more expensive machines that are free of that model. Just buy an eco/mega tank. But people want the 89 dollar magic printer with all of the features, they don't want the 300 dollar one with the more affordable ink.
 
mbow30 said:
Wtf is a printer
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You're going to love them. They even come in 3D now

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