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Why Is Printer Ink So Expensive?
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this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
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Because they've become kinda the standard and people don't know any better; I may be wrong, but for the average user there's the 'printer' which uses ink, and thern there's the copier which uses toner. About them "always been kind of awful".. I dunno, looking back it was harder for them to clog, they were cheap and simple; then they started the race to the smallest nozzles, realized they could upcharge the ink 1000x.. and here we are.
Well, my laser printer jammed once in >10 years of ownership, and it's because the paper was loaded weird. My parents' inkjet jammed all the time as a kid, so much so that we ended up replacing it with another when my mom started working from home, and it still sometimes jammed.
Maybe things got way better since I was a kid, but inkjets always kinda sucked.
That's just a problem of the feeding mechanism. Laser can do that just as much. It may just be dirty, something may be broken, or it was just terribly designed.