The Secret of Ink Jet Printers.

[Gregoshi]

screw the legal system, i felt really betrayed by those heads company named epson, ! Im gonna modify my printer and start to use non original, cheaper inks from now on.

CW, when I searched the web earlier today to see if I could find out more information about this, my search results were totallly dominated by Canon inkjets, while Epson printers showed up here and there. I didn't see anything from HP, Kodak, Lexmark (used to be King of Wasted Ink - don't know if that is still true today) or any other brand of printers.

[Tuuvi]

I remember my Canon inkjet printer that I got as a graduation gift, the ink ran out really fast and I didn't even print that much, just my English assignments. The printer lasted me about a year, year and a half or so when for some reason the paper wouldn't go in straight anymore so it kept jamming; I freaked out and took it outside and threw it against a wall until it was smashed to bits.

[rajpoot]

I remember my Canon inkjet printer that I got as a graduation gift, the ink ran out really fast and I didn't even print that much, just my English assignments. The printer lasted me about a year, year and a half or so when for some reason the paper wouldn't go in straight anymore so it kept jamming; I freaked out and took it outside and threw it against a wall until it was smashed to bits.

I did that to my toaster one hot summer afternoon when I was really hungry and the toast got stuck in the bloody thing. It was kind of counter productive though since I couldn't eat that toast after that anyway.

[Cute Wolf]

CW, when I searched the web earlier today to see if I could find out more information about this, my search results were totallly dominated by Canon inkjets, while Epson printers showed up here and there. I didn't see anything from HP, Kodak, Lexmark (used to be King of Wasted Ink - don't know if that is still true today) or any other brand of printers.

well, tried opening some of the other ink-jet printers (in the laboratory office I was worked on, by curiousity - and working night shift help), and found this:
1) cannon printer had the similar things under their cover, but the ink wasn't that much wasted, but still much
2) HP printer is, put aside some understandable ink spots, relatively clean and there wasn't any ink wasted in noticeable ammount rather than few, dried spots
3) epson printers had the worst problem, that much ink wasted

there's no others in the office, but I came into conclusion that next time I have the money to buy quality printer, I'll bought HP

[Hosakawa Tito]

We used to get cheaper ink cartridges from 1ink.com. The pics that were printed with the cheap stuff faded/washed out/turned funny colors after a few months time. I just replaced our old HP Officejet 4100 because it stopped working. We bought an Epson WorkForce 840.

Guess we should invest in a scribe instead.

[gaelic cowboy]

Think I posted this before but it's relevant to the thread, it's all about planned obsolescence

http://dotsub.com/view/aed3b8b2-1889...3-ad85f5572f27

Basically it's a docu on printers and lightbulbs and why they purposely fail etc.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Think I posted this before but it's relevant to the thread, it's all about planned obsolescence

http://dotsub.com/view/aed3b8b2-1889...3-ad85f5572f27

Basically it's a docu on printers and lightbulbs and why they purposely fail etc.

Haven't watched the documentary yet, but I am skeptical about "crappy" products being a planned obsolescence. When you try to compete in a global market with countries like China, US companies have to resort to the same kind of cheap labor. In the process of pushing their products cost down, quality must be sacrificed. No one wants to limit themselves into the "high end" market, they want as many potential customers they can get. In order to do that nowadays, you gotta get the costs down.

[gaelic cowboy]

Haven't watched the documentary yet, but I am skeptical about "crappy" products being a planned obsolescence. When you try to compete in a global market with countries like China, US companies have to resort to the same kind of cheap labor. In the process of pushing their products cost down, quality must be sacrificed. No one wants to limit themselves into the "high end" market, they want as many potential customers they can get. In order to do that nowadays, you gotta get the costs down.

Then I suggest you watch the documentary then and see.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Then I suggest you watch the documentary then and see.

I watched the documentary. And I think they got their facts right, for light bulbs and printers. I still don't think that my theory and the planned obsolescence are mutually exclusive. Planned obsolescence is a good way to stay competitive against cheap chinese manufacturing. The end of documentary has the guy saying he wants us to go back to the 1960s. Planned obsolescence it said earlier has been touted and introduced since the beginning of the 20th century. I don't think that companies wanted to go down that route until the world stage got more competitive.