Keeping printer ink cartridges good

T18skyguy wrote:
There is no debate that lasers are faster and more quiet. I love mine. I personally have never experienced clogging heads on any of my ink jets, but it obviously happens. Buying 30 dollar printers with $40 dollar cartridges is a constant hassle, and you are quickly above the price of the tank models. Here's what the tank models will actually do "4000 pages of black ink, and 6500 pages of color" How much would you spend on a laser to get that? Plus Epson threw in another bottle of black in for a total of 8000 pages. So of course we have the issue of how long will the printer mechanically last, plus think of all the wasted time and gas going to buy cartridges. I was seriously considering a color laser, but for the limited amount of color I need I decided to give the tank a go. We'll see what happens and I'll give you an honest report on that.

Obviously if you have more ink the printer will print longer. The problem is what do you do with all that ink when the print heads get dried out and clog up? That is the issue discussed here. If you print a lot, it's not a problem, but if you only print a few pages every month or two... We gave up on inkjets because most of the time we didn't print enough to keep the print heads clean and unclogged. Then when we needed to print we got nothing. It wouldn't matter if we had 55 gallon drums of ink, if you can't get it on the paper what good is it? Our laser printer can sit for 3 or 4 months and print just as good as it did the last time we used it.