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I've joked with my friends how it's cheaper and easier to just buy a new printer than new cartridges but I've just found myself in a situation where it seems completely out of proportion.

Since we have several hp m553's I bought a new one when an older 551 broke. Cost roughly 300 euros. Cartridges with 9500 prints cost about 250 euros a pop so 3x250 for the colors and another 200 euro for black for 12500 prints.

Another 553 is beginning to run out of a few colors but for the sake of it I printed out the status of the new printer. The cartridges that came with it says that it still got 4700+ of each color. So it seems it came with about 5000prints worth of colors.

So 300 euro for a new printer + 5000 prints or 950 euro to completely restock the cartridges.

Even if we go through with a deal to get new cartridges for 30% cheaper it seems almost economical to just keep buying new printers...

I thought printer companies had started to change this because of all the flack I've seen thrown at them, serves me right. Java | [Coffee]
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