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OT: Dell printer cartridges

Ladies and Gents,

There is a Dell 922 inkjet printer/scanner all-in-one thingy in the lab that is over a year old now and gets little use. Maybe 20 color pages (mostly text) and 50 B/W pages. Now it shows that the color cartridge is almost empty. The B/W still runs but with deplorable quality, it's never been that good anyway but B/W gets printed on the laser next door. So let's see, that would come to around $1.50 per color page. Ouch!

Is this normal? Do they have some kind of sales timer built in that lets them expire? I did not find much about that on the web.

Regards, Joerg

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Joerg
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A year old, that your tithing.

:-)

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Donald

Hi Jörg,

here in germany it is totally normal, that a new ink-printer is delivered with a nearly empty cardridge. The orginal is only for demonstration purpose. You have to buy a new one. So the Cost for nwe devices sounds less than real. Wellcome to capitalism.

Marte

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Marte Schwarz

I think I have you beat. I bought a Xerox inkjet a couple years ago for $105 and printed exactlly 5 pages on it and did not use it for a while. Cartridges were all dry, so a bit over $20/page

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seymour-shabow

Hello Marte,

Capitalism is fine with me, else I wouldn't live in the US. But this stuff borders on the unethical. HP did not do that in the olden days.

Regards, Joerg

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Joerg

Hello Seymour,

To me that either sounds like less than ethical business practice or flawed technology. They should not dry out. Sure, my old HP stuttered a few times when it wasn't used for a couple months. But a swift wipe with a damp cloth across the print nozzle assembly always brought it back.

Regards, Joerg

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Joerg

Flog it on eBay, then go out and buy a Canon Pixma IP4000 or IP5000!

Those are network printers. They look after themselves - i.e. they will not dry out because the computer they were connected to is shut down unexpectedly - and they come with fully loaded cartridges too!

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Frithiof Andreas Jensen

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