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[Mad-E-Fact]

Well, so the cartridge still has full yellow and red, only blue (or cyan or whatever it is) is empty? how is that possible? I mostly print in black&white anyway, but shouldnt the colors be used up equally?

[Eagle of Fire]

The best printers are those you can change each color individually. Otherwise you just entered the strange printer cadridge racket, sorry for ya... :angel:

[Mad-E-Fact]

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Feb 13 2005, 09:55 PM
Otherwise you just entered the strange printer cadridge racket

Huh? I'm still not wiser than before :blink:

[Mardi-Gras]

I've used up all the vowels on my keyboard. Don'tcha hate it when that happens? :help:

[xoopx]

if your printer doesnt let you change the colours separately, and you use mostly black and white, then get another printer.
i have an ancient black and white canon bubblejet, and i just refill the cartridge with a kit

[Mad-E-Fact]

Nope, only 2 cartridges, one for colors, one for black. I was just wondering how it could have ran out of blue so fast, I hardly printed anything in colors, and the other 2 colors are still full. Oh well.

[auhsor]

Yeah it happens. It's only really the cheap printers these days that have the 2 cartridges. Mine does, but I only bought it very cheaply. If you want to spend a bit more you should get a printer with separate cartridges. If you do alot of printing this will be better in the long run.

I have found that most printers are pretty cheap - its the ink that costs alot.

[Ferna182]

yeah! aushor it's completly right! in argentina Lexmark it's selling really cheap printers... but the cartridges costs about U$S 50 ..... or more!

and a new Lexark costs about U$S 70 ...... if you realize, it's cheaper to buy a new printer (and get both cartridges new, B/W and colour) and sell your old one for about US$20 ....

[Mad-E-Fact]

Yea, mine's a Lexmark roo. It seemed a good deal, was cheap and it has a built in scanner, so you can make quick copies with it too. But after I got it a friend said the ink for lexmark is pretty expensive, but I don't print much anyway, so maybe it's no big deal...

[xoopx]

lexmark are definately the biggest rip off for ink. like someone already said.. its cheaper to buy the printer than the ink refill.

i wouldnt ever buy a printer that i couldnt refill with my own ink. or at least if it was a colour one, one that didnt have separate carts for each colour.