re: I hate Printer Companies

The problem with ink jet printers is that they waste ink to try to keep the nozzles from clogging. This makes them horribly expensive to run except for high volume printing, where you can keep ahead of the automatic cleaning cycles. I gave up after tracking my usage over a year and finding my 6 color HP printer was costing me $.30 per page to run. This was for printing only a few pages a week on average, mostly black and white documents, with the rare photo thrown in. I replaced it with a Brother laser in 2010 or so, and I'm still on the starter toner. I would have spent literally hundreds of dollars on ink to keep running the HP.