<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 7:38 PM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Quoting Michael Paoli (<a href="mailto:Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu</a>):<br>
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> More up-front, but cheaper long-term - get a decent laser printer.<br>
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And not even necessarily more up-front.<br>
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Last time this subject came up, and Bobbie was swearing up and down that<br>
the only possible thing she could buy is a hideously expensive to<br>
operate inkjet printer because it was 'cheaper' -- in response to<br>
which I spent 10 minutes looking on Craigslist and found a half dozen or<br>
more decent laser printers for far _less_ money than Bobbie intended to<br>
spend buying an inkjet printer.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hasn't the rule of thumb for all printers (and this may have come up already in this thread)</div><div>that most printers are cheap to buy but the cartridges will generally be really expensive? A friend <br></div><div>of mine had an HP printer that he had been able to buy third party cartridges for until HP sent <br></div><div>out an update that made it impossible for any third party cartridges to work on it. He has now <br></div><div>dumped that printer.</div><div><br></div><div> -th<br></div></div></div>
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