• patatahooligan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    but they’re a different kind of hassle

    Can you elaborate on this? I thought they would be straight up better to work with and I was thinking of buying one in the future. Is it just about the drying up issue you mentioned or are there other drawbacks?

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      2 days ago

      I mean yeah, most systems with a reservoir are going to use some kind of feed tubes to get the ink to the print head, and tubes just clog; basically, they only have 2 states of existence and one of them is “clogged”. If you do very regular printing, like a full color page at least twice a week, then they aren’t going to clog, but very few people actually print that consistently.

      Truth be told, I’m just done with inkjet printing all together. At this point I can’t recommend anything but a laser printer, you tend to pay more up front, but then it actually works and it keeps working for a decade or more.