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  • For real, an HP nowadays is even worse at that. They have a setting now called true black that instead of just using the Black Ink that comes with a printer it uses the black ink and a little bit of every color to make it so it’s a darker shade. The result is a darker tone however it blows through your ink even faster because it’s also using your color at the same time.


  • Everyone keeps raving about ink tank but I feel I need to specify, don’t buy this style if you don’t print at least once every few weeks, the lines will clog and it’s a royal pain in the ass trying to remove a clog on these styles!

    They look amazing if you do a lot of artists stuff and you use it frequently but if you’re the college student or someone that may have to print out a report every other month or something like that, you are far better off going with a laser Printer. Less headache for similar pricing

    note: this isn’t a diss on the person I’m replying to, I acknowledge that tank printers are amazing at what they’re good at, I’ve just had so many people bring me their ink tanks because they’re clogged because they only use them maybe once every other month stating that the reason they went with the printer in the first place because it was supposed to not have the penalties that standard inkjets had, so I feel the need to clarify



  • This didn’t used to be the case, starter cartridges used to be the same size if not a little bigger than standard cartridges because the expectation was they wanted you to buy the printer be impressed with how efficient it was and buy more ink.

    The problem with that was, printers were too reliable, people weren’t buying new printers anymore they were only buying the ink so what they did in return was lowered the price of the printers to try to incentivize buying a new printer.

    But then people realized well the ink is so expensive that I can just buy a whole new printer which would be the upgraded form and not have to worry about buying ink, which meant no one was buying their ink anymore

    So as such they made it so starter cartridges have Jack crap for ink to try to disincentivize the same thing that they incentivized in the first place.

    Then of course like every good thing in the world, some executive realize that they could just lower the reliability of the printer and make it a piece of junk, which will accomplish the same effects. But by that time the consumers were used to having nothing for ink and printers anyway so why would they go out of their way to add more ink in the starter cartridges when people were buying it with little to no ink in the starter cartridges, which is how we got to where we are today. Thankfully the laser printer company is while our starting to go in that direction haven’t quite become as bad.

    TLDR? ; inkjet companies are greedy cash hogs, and was willing to lose a little bit of face in order to make some money. Buy a laser printer, the base cost is quite a bit more, but the toner cartridges last forever and they are significantly more reliable








  • The counter argument on this is, you need to be an authorized person on the account to enable and considering authorized people are the people who are paying the bill they have full control. In the eyes of the Telecom the authorized user owns every device that’s on the account so they say they want to track it they’re allowed to track.

    If you’re worried about privacy and someone tracking you that’s part of your plan, you need to isolate into a separate plan. You lose so many areas of privacy by being on someone else’s plan, like the saving money is nice but they can look up your call history, some carriers allow you to look up SMS history it’s not good