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November 22, 2011 at 9:38 AM #19311November 22, 2011 at 10:01 AM #733348
CoronitaParticipantBTW:
It’s ridiculous that now printers include the print head on the cartridges forcing you to have to replace the cartridges every so often
at $40+ for a b/w and color…So…..rather than spend countless time refilling ink cartridges and having to buy new ink cartridges anyway when the print head goes bad on them, or dealing with paper jams when cheaply made parts in HP printers starts going bad…
I’ve decided to toss my printer every year and buy a new one for about $50-60, which will include a starter ink cartridges with a good print head…I’ll refill those starter cartridges as many times as i can I can (probably 7-8 times) until they go bad…And when the cartridges go bad, I’ll toss the entire printer and get a new one with starter ink cartridges with good print heads… Actually, better yet, I’ll donate the printer to the goodwill and get a tax writeoff.
Welcome to the new throwaway consumer model.
November 22, 2011 at 10:31 AM #733351swave
ParticipantThe price of ink for Kodak’s inkjet printers is only $10 for a black cartridge and $15 for a color ink cartridge. Still a lot for colored water, but much less than other companies.
November 22, 2011 at 10:33 AM #733352CoronitaParticipant[quote=swave]The price of ink for Kodak’s inkjet printers is only $10 for a black cartridge and $15 for a color ink cartridge. Still a lot for colored water, but much less than other companies.[/quote]
I had a kodak printer before… They jammed like crazy. And the rollers went bad after a year. Very few printers these days are built to last for a very long time.
November 22, 2011 at 10:36 AM #733353Participant[quote=flu]Oh my…. talk about big brother watching….
I never knew…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
Printer steganography is a type of steganography produced by color printers, including Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson, HP, IBM, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Lanier, Lexmark, Ricoh, Toshiba and Xerox[1] brand color laser printers, where tiny yellow dots are added to each page. The dots are barely visible and contain encoded printer serial numbers, as well as date and time stamps.Color laser printers appear to be the type mostly involved, the measure being brought in during the 1990s by companies such as Xerox seeking to reassure governments that their printers would not be used for the purposes of forgery. The identification is by means of a watermark, often using yellow-on-white, embedded in the printout of each page, and in conjunction with other information can be used to identify the printer which was used to print any document originally produced on a wide range of popular printers. It may be actual text, or a repeated pattern of dots throughout the page, more easily visible under blue light or with a magnifying glass, and is intended to be very difficult to notice with the naked eye.
In 2005, the Electronic Frontier Foundation cracked the codes for DocuColor printers and published an online guide to their detection.[2] Most printers’ codes have not been decoded, although the coding system framework and printer serial number encoding is the same on both DocuColor and the Epson Aculaser C1100/C1100N/A.
[/quote]This was done initially to help to identify counterfeiters. It is probably used for more than that now.
November 22, 2011 at 11:36 AM #733358SK in CV
ParticipantCan I borrow your printer? I have a nasty letter I need to send to the IRS.
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November 22, 2011 at 1:05 PM #733359briansd1
GuestI still have my 10 year old b&w HP laser printer. Never breaks.
For color photos, I just send to Costco or some other service.
BTW, I know that Costco is not the best printing service but it’s good enough, IMO. At 13c per picture, free ship to your house, it’s cheaper than buying ink and paper. A 4×6 pic gets me 6 passport pictures. It can’t get any cheaper than that.
Black laser for business letters is just fine.
November 22, 2011 at 6:39 PM #733363
svelteParticipant[quote=flu]Oh my…. talk about big brother watching….
I never knew…[/quote]
thats why i go to Kinky’s to print my money….
November 22, 2011 at 7:18 PM #733364GH
ParticipantI suppose if I really find myself needing to knock off some 20’s I will have to buy a used printer on Craigslist…
Seems to me this kind of monitoring is useless.
November 22, 2011 at 9:21 PM #733365moneymaker
ParticipantJust remember to pay cash for your printer and you will be ok. By the way the ink although expensive is really special I think it has to be magnetic or conductive for the print head to spit it out. HP is looking to use their printer heads to inject accurate amounts of drugs into the body,isn’t that special.You think the current refills are expensive wait till they are filled with testosterone,dopamine,cocaine, or whatever. You’ll be able to have a tattoo that keeps you from getting pregnant, imagine that!
November 23, 2011 at 4:39 PM #733381paramount
ParticipantMost popular inkjet printer cartridges can be refilled at Costco for around $10.
November 24, 2011 at 9:34 AM #733392CAwireman
ParticipantExactly – don’t use your printer to send subversive, anti-establishment letters….
Printers have been a great forensic tool for law enforcement and the gov for a long long time.
We have an all in one Brother printer (huge!) Paid a lot for it via Costco online and its a great fit for us. We have it hooked up on our network and can print to it from any internal wireless or wired computer. It scans, faxes, copies, prints.
We’ll cut letters/words out of magazines and paste them onto paper purchased in Montana before we send them to the presidential candidates to complain about replublican brain lock during each debate. That’ll show ’em, and they’ll never know it was us!!!
[quote=SK in CV]Can I borrow your printer? I have a nasty letter I need to send to the IRS.
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