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freitasm: That's the thing with eco tank printers: you only refill. There is no parts replacement for years.

 

We bought our ecotank at the start of covid. It gets used daily and we are still on the original set of inks it came with - it did come with two sets of inks and we are on the second set. 

 

It’s a much better solution for home users than a laser printer IMO. 

 

We had a SME multifunction inkjet and I never fell in love with it; when it wouldn't print properly after spending many hundreds of dollars for new cartridges (and then lots of time trying to fix the problem) I sat on my hands for a couple of years before deciding what to replace it with - inkjet or laser. The one thing I knew was it wasn't going to be an HP, based on that printer and what I've read here and elsewhere!

In the end we bought a secondhand Brother SME multifunction laser; in perfect nick and with a set of new toner cartridges. Having purchased it s/h, we let someone else take the hit - RRP for the same printer is $2k, and we paid well under a quarter of that.

It just works. Every time. No farting about. No calibrating, no ink wastage.

Yep, when it comes time to buy new toner it'll cost a bit, but the amount we print that'll not be for a few years.