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    Depending on the frequency of your printing, they can suck as well. Chronically clogged nozzles are maddening.

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      You can run a power clean cycle which should help, then just replace the foam pads they saturate with ink for the cleaning

      They’re not perfect but they’re still the most consumer friendly option on the market at this point

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        After talking to support 15 times, they never suggested replacing anything, and power clean wasn’t enough. I’ve long since destroyed the thing out of malignant rage and turned to libraries and copy shops, but it’s good to know that there might have been a solution.

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          Wait until copy shops start raising their prices cause nobody has printers anymore and you have no choice but to use them

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            Still cost me less than a new printer every two years if they multiplied their prices by 10.

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              Not for me, 40€ toner cartridge gets me 10k pages, already have over 80k pages printed so the printer paid itself multiple times compared to a copyshop

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      Yeah, that’s true. That was a pain in the ass when my wife needed good color accuracy.

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      This. My partner’s office is stuck with “it has to be inkjet and not toner", and on January their printer got clogged…

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      I have the 2850. Been using it for a couple years now. Print maybe once a month. Nozzles get clogged periodically but you run the automated cleaning process and it’s back to working again.

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      I don’t print that often but I do have a calendar event to tell me to print something monthly. This could be a nice side project for someone to write a program that sends a print to your printer on a schedule to keep the heads clear. Wastes paper but at least the heads won’t dry out.