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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
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The problem I encounter with printers is that I so rarely use them that the ink dries up between uses, and/or clogs up the ink ports. I got so tired of buying new ink cartridges for $45, printing three pages, then not using the darn printer for a few weeks or even months, then finally trying to print a few pages just to find that the ink cartridges have become useless. Paying $45 to print a handful of pages just isn't cost effective. So for someone like me who rarely uses a printer these days, this is a useless feature.
Five years ago when I bought my house, all the paperwork was done, and exchanged, electronically, including signatures. There was no need for a printer on my part. And as anyone who has ever bought a house knows, it requires a ton of paperwork. The title company of course had to have one so they could print out the gillion and one pages I had to sign at the closing, but I never printed a thing.
I rarely find that I need to print out anything these days, hence the reason the ink dries up way before I get much use from the cartridges. For me a better feature would be to ask Alexa to have Amazon print out a document and ship it to me, preferably same or next day delivery. Currently I just find a friend with a printer and go that route, or find a Kinkos. I would rather pay a few dollars to Amazon to get a few pages printed once every few months (at most) than to pay Office Depot $45 for new printer cartridges that will get used once or twice then dry up and or plug the ink ports.