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Originally Posted by wodin
It would seem that Epson is abandoning the Gillette model of monetizing the consumables in favor of taking the profit up front. That might be a good thing for high usage customers, but for the average home user who might print ten to one hundred pages per month it's not very economical
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This seems to be a trend. Two years ago I have purchased HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One Printer.
Due to my previous experiences with ink printers I was very reluctant, but my very good friend that sells printers persuaded me to try it and I am very satisfied. The printer is more expensive than those very old inkjets with tiny, insanely expensive cartridges [ink+printhead] that kept clogging or drying up when you did not print regularly. Yet, it is economical even for a household that prints only occasional homework for kids or rare piece of official paperwork.
This Epson eco-tank looks very interesting if you print high volumes.
HP Officejet Pro 8600 seems to have a bit more expensive ink, but the price for printer was a fraction of what they ask for those eco-tank business models. The ink is separate from printhead.
I do not know how the 8600 series perform with W10, but with older windows they work perfectly - apart from the fact that you need to install insanely huge drivers from HP - hundreds of megabytes. They can also print through Internet when registered on HP servers, which is great for people with chromebooks or tablets. I have never tried that. Setup in Linux, even in wired or WiFi network mode, is very simple and easy [no hundred of megabytes of HP drivers] and they can scan to USB or print from USB if you need to use them in emergency.