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So, you may or may not know: when I bought my desktop I bought a printer from Dell. This was in retrospect a bad life choice. It's wireless but can only find the network about 10% of the time, and the cartridges liteally print 8 pages and die, I wish I were joking.
I've been meaning to get another one, but in the meantime, labs gotta get printed, so I've been using my ancient HP Photosmart. It's 10 years old. The color was dying a bit (I wasn't getting blues), so I decided to go get new ink for that one. Eventually I'm going to return the Dell one and buy a new one, right, but for right now, I need a working GD printer like a grownup.
So I go to OfficeMax and cartridges for my old one total at $60. Damn, I think! They didn't used to be that expensive! Maybe they're trying to force people out of the old models. Whatever. So I pick them up, and I decide to go browse the printers, to see whether there's a new model that uses the same cartridge. If I'm putting $60 into ink only to buy a new printer, I want it to use my ink, you know?
But as I browse the lines I find a HP wireless printer/scanner for $60.
Hmm, sez I. So I could pay $60 for the ink for an old printer I'm going to replace anyway... Or I could pay $60 for a new printer/scanner PLUS ink, one that will do everything I want the new model to do (wireless is a must). For the same price.
While dithering, I go to check the ink for the *new* printer thinking, if the ink's still $60 for black+color, I'm not really making a good choice here. I find the cartridges. The black is $13 and the color is like $15.
Sold.
So I walked into the store to get ink and left with a new printer.
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I've been meaning to get another one, but in the meantime, labs gotta get printed, so I've been using my ancient HP Photosmart. It's 10 years old. The color was dying a bit (I wasn't getting blues), so I decided to go get new ink for that one. Eventually I'm going to return the Dell one and buy a new one, right, but for right now, I need a working GD printer like a grownup.
So I go to OfficeMax and cartridges for my old one total at $60. Damn, I think! They didn't used to be that expensive! Maybe they're trying to force people out of the old models. Whatever. So I pick them up, and I decide to go browse the printers, to see whether there's a new model that uses the same cartridge. If I'm putting $60 into ink only to buy a new printer, I want it to use my ink, you know?
But as I browse the lines I find a HP wireless printer/scanner for $60.
Hmm, sez I. So I could pay $60 for the ink for an old printer I'm going to replace anyway... Or I could pay $60 for a new printer/scanner PLUS ink, one that will do everything I want the new model to do (wireless is a must). For the same price.
While dithering, I go to check the ink for the *new* printer thinking, if the ink's still $60 for black+color, I'm not really making a good choice here. I find the cartridges. The black is $13 and the color is like $15.
Sold.
So I walked into the store to get ink and left with a new printer.
This entry was originally posted at http://seventhe.dreamwidth.org/56836.html, which has
comments. Comment there (with OpenID) or here, it's all good.