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To: Joe NYC who wrote (77830)4/20/2002 4:32:27 PM
From: Jim McMannisRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
RE:"I have had both, Epson and HP, and over the life of both, Epson cartridges ended up a lot more expensive, since I had to dump the printer after using up about 2 cartridges. HP is still working fine"

I used HP for years. It was costing a fortune. I even tried filling my own. No more than a few fills and the print heads went bad.
Then I bought a new Canon 630, later a 750, greatest things since sliced bread. Cartridges are easy to fill. Just buy the bulk ink, pull the plug, fill and tape. Filled the same cartridges 20-30 times saving hundreds even thousands of dollars vs HP cartridges. You can easy see the level of the ink as the cartridges are transparent. Canon uses 3 color ink tanks as well where as if you run out of one color in an HP color cartridge you are done.
OEM Canon cartridges are 40% less than OEM HP cartridges but unlike HP there are aftermarket Canon cartridges for as little as 3-4 dollars per color.

HP literally fibs about the amount of ink you have left. I pulled a HP black cartridge the other day when it said...low 10% left. In fact the cartridge had 40% of it's capacity left! What a rip!

If you are h*ll bent on HP and do a lot of printing there are retrofit, continuous feed systems for about $100.
Same for Canon but as easy as they are to refill dunno if it's worth it.

Each Canon printer is chugging along at about 2000pages
per month.
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