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Originally Posted by OtinG
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.
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We print a lot. We have two lasers and an inkjet plus a dedicated wallet-photo printer (my wife does paper crafts). And I STILL don't see anything of interest to me in this feature. :-)
BTW, long ago we switched to cheap third party inks. $45 is like a two year supply. Haven't had a problem with it drying out in the packages, even being stored in a file drawer for a year, and with printers being so cheap and cheaply made anyway, the risk of damaging the printer (which has so far never happened) is not a deterrent for me.
BTW, with the color laser acquisition, our inkjet use is dropping off sharply. When we want good photo prints in any sort of quantity, we order them from Costco for 1 hour pickup. We're basically keeping the inkjet as a scanner and fax at this point...not sure if we'll ever buy ink again.