Originally posted by wizard10000
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My laster is an HP LaserJet P1606dn, which I've had for over five years. I've gone through three toner cartridges so far, and it is printing like a champ.
My old HP 5610 Series multifunction printer is holding down the floor of my garage. I can still use its scanner IF I ever need it, but as far as color printing is concerned ....
When I first got it I also purchased some photo paper for it, with plans of printing my own photos from jpg files. I burned an entire set of color cartridges trying to get it to print something that was passable, but failed. It burned through the black cartridge in days, even though I had it on "draft" for most print jobs. And $28 for the black and $58 for the color was too much to suffer.
Cannon, my printer before the 5610 is also bad about that as well. To minimize the cost of black ink standard printing I purchased reloading injectors to replenish the ink in the cartridges after they were exhausted. That worked great until Cannon followed LexMark's lead and added electrical circuits which sensed the ink level and burned out the drivers in the cartridges when the level was low, making them impossible to reuse. That's when I stopped using Cannon.
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