Keeping printer ink cartridges good

I have Samsung M2020 B&W laser printer thats awesome, and I refill the toner myself(check on youtube). For color I bought an Epson Ecotank on sale $279.00 (Costco) with the big tanks of ink, and they also included an extra black tank of ink. Works real well, not as fast as a laser, but faster than I expected. The tanks are suppose to provide thousands of pages. We'll see. But as far as inkjet goes, I can see they will all go to the tank model idea. The per page cost is a small fraction of the cartridge types. I can't see people sticking with cartridges.

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time2roll wrote:
My Dell 1355 still working great but stays at home. I can't imagine there would be any harm to go on the road unless it fell off the table during a panic stop. I will not own another inkjet.

Thanks for the reply. I have a laser all-in-one at home, and an ink jet for photos, and I will not have an ink jet in the camper. I am just a little concerned about all the bouncing.

My Dell 1355 still working great but stays at home. I can't imagine there would be any harm to go on the road unless it fell off the table during a panic stop. I will not own another inkjet.

This is resurrecting an old post, but for those of you using laser, what printer do you have? Does bouncing during travel have any negative effect?

DiskDoctr wrote:
For lasers, keep in mind the power surge and draw ;)

Very good point for someone who plans on using them while boondocking or hooked up to questionable power sources. They do draw a lot of power when starting.

For lasers, keep in mind the power surge and draw ;)

jcpainter wrote:
For those of you that are using B&W laser printers, a couple of questions.

• Do they scan and copy like the all-in-one ink-jet printers?
• If you are printing a document that contains color in it, will the B&W laser print the portion that is in color as B&W, or does it just not print that part?

Yes my Dell color laser scans, copies, prints in both color or B/W.
Yes a color image gets fully printed in a grayscale if B/W is selected.

Toner is still expensive but lasts seemingly forever. I pay the extra to get new from Dell but refills are available. Refills did not indicate the remaining toner so I stopped using them.

Mine has black and three separate color cartridges so you only replace what is needed. I go a couple years on some cartridges and they print fine.

I believe the model is Dell 1355 and it is old but working fine for a decade or more now.

jcpainter wrote:

Almot wrote:
There is another very good reason NOT to use inkjet. In RV you don't usually have a designated office. Put an inkjet printed page on a wet counter or dinner table and see what happens. OTH, laser print dries out with no consequences.

I understand occasional need in color (at home) to print photos of grandchildren etc, but not in RV.

There are LOTS of other needs for printing color besides pictures.

I'll have to take your word that you need color, but we've never needed anything but black/gray for 7-8 years. Peggy prints out some photos using a small photo printer, but that's it for color. They could give me a color inkjet printer and I'd dump it first chance I got.

Almot wrote:
There is another very good reason NOT to use inkjet. In RV you don't usually have a designated office. Put an inkjet printed page on a wet counter or dinner table and see what happens. OTH, laser print dries out with no consequences.

I understand occasional need in color (at home) to print photos of grandchildren etc, but not in RV.

There are LOTS of other needs for printing color besides pictures.