Let me first say that I do NOT have a horse in this race but over the years I have paid a ton of $$ for not only InkJet printers but ink cartridges. I don't need to tell anyone how expensive ink cartridges are. Let's face it ... the printers are relatively cheap but the ink cartridges are not.
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I'm not going to badmouth HP cause I've owned and used their products (PCs, monitors, printers, etc) for years. For the most part they have performed great for me. I have however gone through quite a few of their inkjet printers. Of course most if not all of their printers use different ink cartridges so when a printer failed I usually wound up with expensive ink cartridges I could not use.
So last week when another printer failed (print head issue this time) I decided to search and see what printer options are available these days. I was skeptical when I found an all-in-one (printer/scanner/copier) WiFi printer that has Cartridge-Free printing and comes with up to 2 years of ink in the box. Comes with enough ink to print up to 4,000 black/6,500 color pages ... No way I said ...
Way!! If you're in the market for a new inkjet printer or if and when your existing printer fails you might want to take a look at the Epson Expression ET-2550 Eco Tank All-in-One Supertank Printer. It has refillable ink tanks and the refills for every color (black, cyan, magenta, yellow) are about $13 each.
I've been using the printer for a little over a week now with wonderful results. For our printing needs this printer does the job and I really like that I can refill my own ink and not have to pay a ton of $$ for new cartridges.