this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2023
833 points (99.2% liked)
Technology
60082 readers
4271 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I was highly considering a Brother, now I definitely will get one.
Epson Eco Tank is the cheapest best printer I've ever had.
Do you use a model with pigment inks or dye inks? I currently use a pigment based hp inkjet. I thought about switching to ecotank but the pigment refills are comparable to hp pigment cost. I assume the ecotank would get a higher page count from the same cost of ink? The pigment based ecotank models I shopped around were quite a bit more expensive than the entry level dye based models.
I use the cheap Eko tank that doesn't auto feed...wish I had done the auto feed. It just takes a 15 dollar bottle of ink for each color. In 4 years I've used one black bottle and 1/2 the colors.
I've had two in the span of about 16 years. Only reason I got a new one was because I couldn't find decent drivers for it for Windows 8. Considering with HP and Epson inkjets they wouldn't even last 2 years, 8+ years is a good deal. Brother printers are excellent.
Mines been good. Light to medium duty use.