@cengland0 2 stepper motors, some gears, lots of hardware like rods and rubber rollers, maybe some optical sensors, momentary switches. pretty good deal for just those parts really.
@thismyusername This is to both people who posted the printer videos. Someone took the time to do this and you both took the time to post them. Thank you. I needed a good laugh and you both provided it. Great job to everyone involved.
@bsci87@thismyusername@mrkenneth And to think I sold my dot matrix printer years ago… What a missed opportunity. Ironically while I watch these videos the ads coming up are for Cannon Printer drivers. LOL
@thismyusername Holy moly, that’s amazing. I love the ridiculous setups that people have come up with for disk drive choruses, but I didn’t know dot matrix printers were in on it, too. That fade-out at the end…!
Literally had to push the back button to stop purchase as the flash of it not having ink processed in my mind to catch up with only $10 for a printer insanity!
@kuoh Plus the remanufactured ink online stores (SuperMediaStore & LDProducts) don’t offer any non-OEM cartridges, which may be a Canon restriction. I’ll stick with my Brother printer and its $4 ink cartridges (remanufactured)!
Printing money is not illegal unless it’s with the intent to use it. Ask me how I know, hint, the Secret Service told me. Then yelled at my brother… And arrested a kid.
OK, so in hindsight, don’t print money, the “excitement” is not worth it.
I have a wireless Canon color inkjet printer that has been working perfectly for 7 or 8 years now. Best printer I have ever owned.
However, it does kind of piss me off that when only ONE COLOR of ink tank runs out the entire printer shuts down until it is replaced. In other words, if my wife printed some photos and ran the cyan empty, I can not print my black page of text, even though it is a completely separate ink cartridge. The marketing strategy works though, we keep about $90 worth of spare ink cartridges in the house as a result.
@Steve7654 you are the reason this model still works! Get a color laser and have Walmart print the things you actually need (not 99% of what you print ) in high quality (better than ink Jets quality).
@edgriebel My ancient HP printer will print black if the color cartridge is dead. I still have it, but I have a laser printer I just love now, $60 at Quill. I bought it mostly because I hate buying cartridges!! This Canon is everything I despise in a printer.
@edgriebel My HP has been running for a year with an empty color cartridge. Well, the last month the pages have been streaky, but still. It was probably built before they did the math on ink.
I’m still running the Canon S750 inkjet I bought in 2002. That’s right, it’s 15-years-old. Even has a parallel port. Best part is compatible ink cartridges are $3 online.
@dashcloud The Dell was marked $60. Nobody bought it. Then it was 50% off. Nobody bought it. Then 75% off. And I had a 50% off any one item coupon. So I bought it.
The Brother was $20. It was still there at 50% and I had a coupon.
Canon?! This isn’t Meh, it’s Gaahhh!!! My last Canon ended up in the middle of the back yard unsuccessfully fending off my sledgehammer. Yes, it was that bad, the only piece of equipment I’ve ever smashed.
There is alot to be said about Cannon. They’ve been around longer than I have been on this earth, great customer service and support. Now about the ink issue there are several places online that sell ink refill kits and cartridges. I just searched the info on the printer with the word ink cartridges and several places I have used came up with very good price points. I have 2 new primers now that just sit around looking sad because I have hardly ever used them. Needless to say that I worked several places that sold printers and made them also. I think that for 10 dollars you can’t go wrong no matter how you work the math. So all I can say is the printer even without ink is a great price. It doesn’t hurt to have an extra one that you can keep in case of problems arising with the printer you have and they also make great gifts for any type of holiday. O.k. now I have put my foot in my mouth it’s time to say farewell until the next time we meet.
Aw, nuts. I totally didn’t notice it’s not wireless. Oh well- in for a thousand pennies, in for a pound of eloquent-madly-tank, I guess. I’ve been wanting a separate printer for the mailing labels for my shop.
@Felyne Our house printer is difficult for me to get to because my walker won’t fit through that end of the room. I use a laptop on a hospital table (the kind that fits over the bed) and having to have a cable hanging off will be less than ideal. Still doable, but not as easy as wireless. “good exercise” is a matter of perspective when you’re disabled.
@FightingMongoos LED printers? Are they still around? I’d think with the laser print engines so cheap (anyone remember the original $7k Apple laserwriter?) that there’s no market for LED-based printing.
@brhfl I have fond memories of “OKidata” - growing up, our first printer, dot matrix of course, came from them. Printed thousands of pages of carbon invoices, inventory, and financial statements on that tank of a printer.
Also recall loving my first fully formed character daisy wheel Panasonic KX-P3151 (a highly rated printer at the time):
And as well, my first inkjet, the monochrome Canon BJ200:
Still have both of them, buried in cold storage, along with my IBM PC (original) and Commodre PET. (Somebody stole our 128K Mackintosh (original) from storage.)
@brhfl hah! As I recall that BJ200 was the printer to get if you didn’t want to go broke. And didn’t take up much desktop space.
Sieko was basically Epson wasn’t it? Had a bunch of those in narrow and wide variants. FX, MX, etc… models. And used the software “Sideways” to print really wide spreadsheets perpendicular.
@RedOak I still have my KX-P3151 in storage in its box. Until we got a later higher resolution 600dpi laser that could print closer to impact quality I used it for all formal prints (like resumes and applications). I had special daisywheels that had to have AppleWorks preload a binary config to the printer to handle the ‘nonstandard’ kerning and characters, but the print quality was beautiful.
First printer was an MPI 99G, which came with its own Apple-][ interface card or worked with a Grappler-][ card. It worked well, but what a shrieker that thing was… it went to charity about 15 years ago.
We still have customers with Okidata Microline dot matrix printers for multipart forms. Some of those printers are 15 or more years old and still work fine. Truly tanks.
@duodec yah, I can almost hear that 3151 - unlike other daisy wheel printers, it had a more musical, subdued sound - perhaps due to having decent noise isolation.
I have an older pixima but the difference is the single cartridges for each color and two dye/pigment black cartridges. If Meh were to sell a model similar to what I have I would buy it just to have a spare as it’s worked so well.
I always hear pitches for LaserJet printers over InkJet printers for people who print a lot, but I’m here to tell you LaserJets are the way to go for people who print hardly anything.
I mean, sure, if you don’t print much, why even own a printer? Why not just go to FedEx Kinko’s and use theirOH, RIGHT! That place is awful.
But owning an InkJet printer is a wholly unsatisfying experience. Nothing like printing concert tickets on a full tank in September, only to have the rest of the ink dried up when you go to print your taxes in April. (“Why are you printing your taxes? Just e-file, man!” “Your ink cartridge replacements could be write-offs.” Shut up, voices I have assigned the most annoying amongst you in my head.)
If you insist on owning a printer, get a LaserJet. And if you’re not particular about which one to get or don’t know where to start, get the same one your place of employment uses and enjoy the new “toner replacement program” you just added to your benefits package.
Tempting price, but the thought of plugging in a “wire” (wtf is that anyway?) just to print something out sounds like a lot of work.
So, in the interest of laziness, and at the direction of the person who usually ends up throwing out the junk i buy, I have generously decided to let someone else get this great deal!
I hope they at least print out a “thank you” card…LOL
@beachhead ‘wire’ = more reliable, more secure, less flaky, consistently fast, more difficult to tap, more difficult to interfere with outside of contact damage, unlikely to be used by passerbys, script kiddiez, nosy neighbors, or FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN-11443…
etc
etc
etc
No ink! Lame-o. Got a great Canon print/scan/copy/fax machine, wireless, for about $40 a couple years ago. Came with ALL SIX ink tanks. Excellent, though a tad slow to start and somewhat noisy. I don’t print much, but the replacement Canon tanks are $95!!!
@JohnSchubert might be good for others and they’re not the ripoff like the office stores. But Amazon does a lot better for our (beloved) Brother MFC printer.
@PlacidPenguin yah, although we buy singles since 8,000 pages goes along way.
In a crunch, SAMs club pricing isn’t as good as Amazon, but beats the office stores.
Do you use the black electrical tape trick to fool the optical sensor? I haven’t measured how much more life we get but have heard folks claim they doubled the life of the toner cartridges.
Bought one, oily-loveable-plant. Here’s how you find ink.
Black cartridge: PG-245XL or PG-245
Color: CL-246XL or CL-246
The XL versions print 300 pages, the normal ones print 180. It’s -probably- worth it to get the XL, since they’re not much pricier and print almost double.
This package is an OK deal if you want genuine black XL, color XL cartridges and 50 sheets of decent 4x6" photo paper, $55 with Prime. Here are prices I found for individual cartridges, including shipping:
As far as I can tell this printer will refuse to print anything unless it has both a color and a black cartridge, so you’ll spend at least $26 (for normal = 7 cents per page) or $33 (for XL = 5 cents per page.)
Okay, I have to chime in. I find ink for other printers from Inkjet Willy, at http://www.thefrugals.com/ Let the jokes begin. I also buy all my gift cards from Gift Card Granny.
I’ve suggested Gift Card Granny and Raise to people, in addition to cashback sites.
Some people look down at discount gift card and cash back sites which is a shame, as some nice savings could be made.
On a site used to use, there was a guy who did the purchasing for his company. His company gave him permission to make purchases through this site, and he was allowed to make a nice sum from it.
As for couponing in general, well, shows like Extreme Couponing show why it’s worth it. And yes, I know it’s more of ysmv.
bought it …
canceled it …
can’t afford the ink
can’t afford a $10 printer which will refuse to print anything unless it has both a color and a black cartridge installed
took the $10 and bought hot dogs and beer instead
We use black electrical tape to block the optical sensor from seeing daylight through our Brother laser toner cartridges. Works like a charm to get every last bit of toner out of that $75 cartridge. (Rated at 8,000 pages, but as a result, we go months and months past the warning popup.)
I’m thinking of getting this one for the kitchen. From what I have read it really excels at making jelly. Or, rather, it jams a lot. Either way, I love me some homemade jam!
y’all might think I’m crazy but I took a thermal receipt printer that a business was throwing out. took me a while to find proper drivers but now i just send out stuff in small strips of paper using no ink. concert tickets, plane tickets, sometimes I use Photoshop to reformat them. but it never fails and it’s tiny!
@Barney right…i get it…but in the box it says it ccomes with two ink cartridges…so they opened the box took them out…resealed and shipped. I got what was advertised on the site, just not what was supposed to be shipped in the box.
@heatedsauces@medz yea or a misprinted box… you know meh sells these sorta mistakes quite often… that’s why they are here and at that price (although I will agree that lately they have been pricing some things a bit more premium than they are).
But the real burning question… are the motors stepper motors?
@stuntdriver Just the power cable. You should have gotten that. No USB though. Ink was removed from the box (as stated in the sale) for your protection.
Just tried to install the new printer but the yellow light will not go out. Installed new Canon drivers but unable to get the printer to connnect. Can you send a replacement printer?
Never received it because for some reason it had to be signed for and I couldn’t get to the post office to pick it up that week so it was returned/refunded. But stupid me had also bought ink for it, so that was wasted money for ink I can’t use. I wish we could specify to let shipments be left at the door without a signature…frustrating!
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1x Printer
1x Power cable
1x Software CD
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Throwaway printers are good for ink, this one doesn’t come with any. Lame
@lichme I’m replying to you cause you’re the top comment.
I wrote about the options for ink, how much they cost, and where to buy them here: https://meh.com/forum/topics/canon-ip2820-inkjet-printer#589b51816c345300981bf89f
No ink? WTF?
@boc the ink costs more than $10…
@boc
@eeterrific Ya think?
@adamselby You are quick! No one can pull one over on you!
@boc I knew there was a catch…
@eeterrific not if you go to costco and refill your cartridges there.
Copy that
@AttyVette Over, Roger Victor.
Don’t bother with the headache, get a toner printer.
/giphy plump-fantastical-dirt
@rileyper agree, these days i hardly use my inkjet printer, seems like half the time i go to use it i have to clean the heads.
@thismyusername I am asking myself this very question
/giphy smug
Stupid but cheap.
/image pertinent-fallacious-stove
The razor/razorblade model. We’ll see ink tomorrow.
@norman8 you think they took all the ink out of the printer packages just to sell it tomorrow?
@sykl0ps Technically, just to fuck with us, but tomato tomato.
No ink stink
That’s what I’m talking about! More tech stuff!
@KDemo
Agreed. This is the first deal since I joined Meh which I’ve ever really seriously considered.
@PlacidPenguin seriously? A throw away printer with no ink is what you’ve been waiting for?
@jzmacdadd
I wouldn’t have needed this for printing. I’d have had a different use for it.
@PlacidPenguin ok, so now I’m curious…
@PlacidPenguin now I just want to know.
I actually need a printer- just not this one.
@sammydog01 Maybe this is the printer you deserve?
@djslack Damn straight, I do deserve it.
/image beautiful knobby minnow
Could use it for parts like the motors for any beginner arduino projects.
@cengland0 2 stepper motors, some gears, lots of hardware like rods and rubber rollers, maybe some optical sensors, momentary switches. pretty good deal for just those parts really.
@cengland0 shhh don’t tell them, but all I saw was stepper motors and parts…
@cengland0 …and no need to watch the curb for abandoned printers on garbage day. Yeah!
@cengland0 & @thismyusername, you sold me on one, but only cause I have vmp.
@thismyusername You would think that. But most inkjets now don’t use steppers. They use brushed motors attached to an optical rotary encoder.
@J5892 isn’t that more accurate than a stepper motor?
@mmichalka Depends on the stepper motor, but generally, no. But it is cheaper.
Bluetooth support?
No?
Oh well.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@PlacidPenguin Yeah…why doesn’t someone make a printer/speaker instead of light bulb/speakers?
@eeterrific
I could think of several reasons. Here are 2 of them:
With wireless printing, you don’t have to be in the room. With lights however, why keep them on if you’re not there.
A printer with a speaker would just be ridiculous.
@eeterrific
@mrkenneth
@thismyusername This is to both people who posted the printer videos. Someone took the time to do this and you both took the time to post them. Thank you. I needed a good laugh and you both provided it. Great job to everyone involved.
@bsci87 @thismyusername @mrkenneth And to think I sold my dot matrix printer years ago… What a missed opportunity. Ironically while I watch these videos the ads coming up are for Cannon Printer drivers. LOL
@PlacidPenguin but a speaker that also prints would be innovative
@thismyusername Holy moly, that’s amazing. I love the ridiculous setups that people have come up with for disk drive choruses, but I didn’t know dot matrix printers were in on it, too. That fade-out at the end…!
Anyway,
@currawong add scanners to the band
I wonder if this will work with only buy the black cartridge from ebay?
@Enigma
Usually not. Had Canon in the past.
@f00l thanks, saved my starbucks money.
@Enigma Reviews on Amazon say that you cannot print with just black ink.
People still print stuff? I could understand if it scanned or did copies, but…
Literally had to push the back button to stop purchase as the flash of it not having ink processed in my mind to catch up with only $10 for a printer insanity!
Money printing machine
@Stallion For Meh and the ink manufacturers, yep. For you, not so much.
No wifi and no ink, MEH!
$37 on amazon as is,
$92 on amazon with ink bundle.
$55 for ink, ouch!
https://www.amazon.com/Canon-PG-245XL-CL-246XL-GP-502-Combo/dp/B00E58RQ6Y
KuoH
@kuoh Plus the remanufactured ink online stores (SuperMediaStore & LDProducts) don’t offer any non-OEM cartridges, which may be a Canon restriction. I’ll stick with my Brother printer and its $4 ink cartridges (remanufactured)!
@Kerig3 Newegg has remanufactured ink cartridges for ~$17 for the XL Black and ~$22 for the color cartridges.
@OutbackJon Thanks, but I’m used to paying ~$4 for an ink cartridge. A bit of a difference.
Printing money is not illegal unless it’s with the intent to use it. Ask me how I know, hint, the Secret Service told me. Then yelled at my brother… And arrested a kid.
OK, so in hindsight, don’t print money, the “excitement” is not worth it.
@michaelahess Thank Allah we rid our god-fearin’, gun-totin’ society of that evil heartless criminsl bastard.
Did you thank them? I guess they work in ICE now.
@michaelahess I would love to here more details of this story!
this will not make margaritas.
@alacrity But it will make a Fuku.
More junk for the fuku’s
I have a wireless Canon color inkjet printer that has been working perfectly for 7 or 8 years now. Best printer I have ever owned.
However, it does kind of piss me off that when only ONE COLOR of ink tank runs out the entire printer shuts down until it is replaced. In other words, if my wife printed some photos and ran the cyan empty, I can not print my black page of text, even though it is a completely separate ink cartridge. The marketing strategy works though, we keep about $90 worth of spare ink cartridges in the house as a result.
@Steve7654 you are the reason this model still works!
Get a color laser and have Walmart print the things you actually need (not 99% of what you print ) in high quality (better than ink Jets quality).
@Steve7654 they gotta have the other colors (specifically yellow) to print tracking code on every page. Also the economic racket behind it all.
@Steve7654 Isn’t this the way all inkjet printers work? I have an HP AIO that does the same thing
@edgriebel My ancient HP printer will print black if the color cartridge is dead. I still have it, but I have a laser printer I just love now, $60 at Quill. I bought it mostly because I hate buying cartridges!! This Canon is everything I despise in a printer.
Costco refills the 245XL, 245XXL, and 246XL cartridges for $10.49 each.
WHEN you buy cartridges for this printer BUY XXL BLACK AND XL COLOR! They hold considerably more ink than 245/246.
Costco carries a package of TWO XXL black and one 246 XL for $89.99. Refill them at Costco for $10.49 each.
This just became affordable.
@edgriebel My HP has been running for a year with an empty color cartridge. Well, the last month the pages have been streaky, but still. It was probably built before they did the math on ink.
Everyone hates it. 288 sold in 20 minutes. Well played, Meh, you genius bastages!
@JustKen Also, original-omniscient-library, you iceholes.
@JustKen Go fork yourself, smog bastich.
At Amazon it comes with ink, wth?
@Pmknkatie you’re complaining about a $10 dollar printer… its hard to go out for a decent meal for $10 anymore.
But can I sell the one on eBay?
@stinks yes, the meh faq even encourages it.
@thismyusername perhaps @stinks was not wondering about permission. But rather, demand.
I’m still running the Canon S750 inkjet I bought in 2002. That’s right, it’s 15-years-old. Even has a parallel port. Best part is compatible ink cartridges are $3 online.
$10 is $2.50 more than what I paid for my current printer. And $5 more than my spare one.
@narfcake and knowing you the $7.50 one is a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-2000 you got at goodwill right?
@thismyusername Nope. A Dell laser all-in-one and a Brother laser. Both networkable models too.
@narfcake So not only do your thrift stores have amazing stuff, they don’t price it accordingly either. @eluno, this is definitely your fault!
@dashcloud The Dell was marked $60. Nobody bought it. Then it was 50% off. Nobody bought it. Then 75% off. And I had a 50% off any one item coupon. So I bought it.
The Brother was $20. It was still there at 50% and I had a coupon.
Surprised no one has commented on the shipping charges Meh pays on the VMPs who buy this.
@haydesigner This is prime VMP-bait.
@adamselby I thought they discontinued VMP
@katbyter No, just closing (after this month) VMP memberships.
@katbyter Locking the door but the club room still has VMP inside it.
Considering the cost of ink, I wouldn’t take a free printer.
Canon?! This isn’t Meh, it’s Gaahhh!!! My last Canon ended up in the middle of the back yard unsuccessfully fending off my sledgehammer. Yes, it was that bad, the only piece of equipment I’ve ever smashed.
@ellett Vuja De.
@ellett I did the same to a cheap and shitty Lexmark printer. It never printed properly and the ink was prohibitedly expensive.
Laserprinter is the only way to go. I have a cheap Samsung that in the last 7 years, I have replaced the toner cartridge once.
Ink is running $10 for color and $17 for black. Almost three printers worth.
Is there any other kind of “skate” here on meh?
@RedOak Three wheeled skates some months back.
@RedOak Costco refills the 245XL, 245XXL, and 246XL cartridges for $10.49 each.
WHEN you buy cartridges for this printer BUY XXL BLACK AND XL COLOR! They hold considerably more ink than 245/246.
Costco carries a package of TWO XXL black and one 246 XL for $89.99. Refill them at Costco for $10.49 each.
This just became affordable.
@mamawoot Good info. For our friends here on meh.
But our family stopped using inkjet printers at least 7 years ago. (Anybody want some big stacks of slightly stale inkjet photo paper?)
Laser all the way. If we need color for photos, we upload to Costco for printing.
Included shipping and tax, it looks like it’ll take about $45-$50 to get this setup together using fleabay as your ink source.
Does anybody know whether it has a Centronics parallel port?
There is alot to be said about Cannon. They’ve been around longer than I have been on this earth, great customer service and support. Now about the ink issue there are several places online that sell ink refill kits and cartridges. I just searched the info on the printer with the word ink cartridges and several places I have used came up with very good price points. I have 2 new primers now that just sit around looking sad because I have hardly ever used them. Needless to say that I worked several places that sold printers and made them also. I think that for 10 dollars you can’t go wrong no matter how you work the math. So all I can say is the printer even without ink is a great price. It doesn’t hurt to have an extra one that you can keep in case of problems arising with the printer you have and they also make great gifts for any type of holiday. O.k. now I have put my foot in my mouth it’s time to say farewell until the next time we meet.
@hotwheels53 Costco refills the 245XL, 245XXL, and 246XL cartridges for $10.49 each.
WHEN you buy cartridges for this printer BUY XXL BLACK AND XL COLOR! They hold considerably more ink than 245/246.
Costco carries a package of TWO XXL black and one 246 XL for $89.99. Refill them at Costco for $10.49 each.
This just became affordable.
Aw, nuts. I totally didn’t notice it’s not wireless. Oh well- in for a thousand pennies, in for a pound of eloquent-madly-tank, I guess. I’ve been wanting a separate printer for the mailing labels for my shop.
@Pony what the heck, u still have to walk into the room to get the printout, so wireless isn’t a make or break, plus it’s good exercise.
@Felyne Depends on where your device is vs. where your printer is.
@Felyne Our house printer is difficult for me to get to because my walker won’t fit through that end of the room. I use a laptop on a hospital table (the kind that fits over the bed) and having to have a cable hanging off will be less than ideal. Still doable, but not as easy as wireless. “good exercise” is a matter of perspective when you’re disabled.
@Pony well clearly then, this printer is not for you.
Inkjet printers are for hookers and fat people.
Spend more on a laser or LED printer now, save yourself money and frustration in the long run.
@FightingMongoos LED printers? Are they still around? I’d think with the laser print engines so cheap (anyone remember the original $7k Apple laserwriter?) that there’s no market for LED-based printing.
@edgriebel OKI still makes them, yes.
@brhfl OKI is still around?
@RedOak Still making dot matrix impact printers as well!
@brhfl I have fond memories of “OKidata” - growing up, our first printer, dot matrix of course, came from them. Printed thousands of pages of carbon invoices, inventory, and financial statements on that tank of a printer.
Also recall loving my first fully formed character daisy wheel Panasonic KX-P3151 (a highly rated printer at the time):
And as well, my first inkjet, the monochrome Canon BJ200:
Still have both of them, buried in cold storage, along with my IBM PC (original) and Commodre PET. (Somebody stole our 128K Mackintosh (original) from storage.)
@RedOak That was the first inkjet I had as well!
Before that, was a Seikosha dot matrix on the C64… This one looks about right…
@brhfl hah! As I recall that BJ200 was the printer to get if you didn’t want to go broke. And didn’t take up much desktop space.
Sieko was basically Epson wasn’t it? Had a bunch of those in narrow and wide variants. FX, MX, etc… models. And used the software “Sideways” to print really wide spreadsheets perpendicular.
@FightingMongoos Am fat…in for one.
@RedOak I still have my KX-P3151 in storage in its box. Until we got a later higher resolution 600dpi laser that could print closer to impact quality I used it for all formal prints (like resumes and applications). I had special daisywheels that had to have AppleWorks preload a binary config to the printer to handle the ‘nonstandard’ kerning and characters, but the print quality was beautiful.
First printer was an MPI 99G, which came with its own Apple-][ interface card or worked with a Grappler-][ card. It worked well, but what a shrieker that thing was… it went to charity about 15 years ago.
We still have customers with Okidata Microline dot matrix printers for multipart forms. Some of those printers are 15 or more years old and still work fine. Truly tanks.
@duodec yah, I can almost hear that 3151 - unlike other daisy wheel printers, it had a more musical, subdued sound - perhaps due to having decent noise isolation.
Any 11x17’s coming up? Scanners? Tesla’s?
Canon? Stop write there.
I have an older pixima but the difference is the single cartridges for each color and two dye/pigment black cartridges. If Meh were to sell a model similar to what I have I would buy it just to have a spare as it’s worked so well.
I always hear pitches for LaserJet printers over InkJet printers for people who print a lot, but I’m here to tell you LaserJets are the way to go for people who print hardly anything.
I mean, sure, if you don’t print much, why even own a printer? Why not just go to FedEx Kinko’s and use theirOH, RIGHT! That place is awful.
But owning an InkJet printer is a wholly unsatisfying experience. Nothing like printing concert tickets on a full tank in September, only to have the rest of the ink dried up when you go to print your taxes in April. (“Why are you printing your taxes? Just e-file, man!” “Your ink cartridge replacements could be write-offs.” Shut up, voices I have assigned the most annoying amongst you in my head.)
If you insist on owning a printer, get a LaserJet. And if you’re not particular about which one to get or don’t know where to start, get the same one your place of employment uses and enjoy the new “toner replacement program” you just added to your benefits package.
@kungfuqua LaserJet is a brand of HP. Are you saying buy only HP printers?
If not, stick with the generic term, laser.
@jpu Sorry, I am from Texas, where all soda is Coke. I just meant laser printers vs ink jet printers.
Also, I have assigned you your own voice in my head. Congrats!
@kungfuqua What does it sound like? Whiny or pretentious?
@sammydog01 It sounds righteous. Not in a Sean Penn “Fast Times” way, but more of a Sean Penn “El Chapo” kinda way.
Tempting price, but the thought of plugging in a “wire” (wtf is that anyway?) just to print something out sounds like a lot of work.
So, in the interest of laziness, and at the direction of the person who usually ends up throwing out the junk i buy, I have generously decided to let someone else get this great deal!
I hope they at least print out a “thank you” card…LOL
@beachhead ‘wire’ = more reliable, more secure, less flaky, consistently fast, more difficult to tap, more difficult to interfere with outside of contact damage, unlikely to be used by passerbys, script kiddiez, nosy neighbors, or FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN-11443…
etc
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The Amazon price includes ink.
@afried68 Factor in that bundled ink carts are usually half full.
No ink! Lame-o. Got a great Canon print/scan/copy/fax machine, wireless, for about $40 a couple years ago. Came with ALL SIX ink tanks. Excellent, though a tad slow to start and somewhat noisy. I don’t print much, but the replacement Canon tanks are $95!!!
For both ink and toner, I have found consistently good prices at inkjetsuperstore.com.
@JohnSchubert might be good for others and they’re not the ripoff like the office stores. But Amazon does a lot better for our (beloved) Brother MFC printer.
@RedOak
I buy the high yield multi-packs for my Brother printer from Amazon.
@PlacidPenguin yah, although we buy singles since 8,000 pages goes along way.
In a crunch, SAMs club pricing isn’t as good as Amazon, but beats the office stores.
Do you use the black electrical tape trick to fool the optical sensor? I haven’t measured how much more life we get but have heard folks claim they doubled the life of the toner cartridges.
@RedOak or there is a chart some where on the internet that tells you how much ink you have left by weighing the cartridge.
/giphy WTF
Bought one, oily-loveable-plant. Here’s how you find ink.
Black cartridge: PG-245XL or PG-245
Color: CL-246XL or CL-246
The XL versions print 300 pages, the normal ones print 180. It’s -probably- worth it to get the XL, since they’re not much pricier and print almost double.
This package is an OK deal if you want genuine black XL, color XL cartridges and 50 sheets of decent 4x6" photo paper, $55 with Prime. Here are prices I found for individual cartridges, including shipping:
Black XL: $26 Amazon genuine, $17 eBay remanufactured.
Color XL: $30 Amazon genuine, $16 eBay remanufactured.
Black: $18 Amazon genuine, $12 eBay remanufactured.
Color: $23 Amazon genuine, $14 eBay remanufactured.
As far as I can tell this printer will refuse to print anything unless it has both a color and a black cartridge, so you’ll spend at least $26 (for normal = 7 cents per page) or $33 (for XL = 5 cents per page.)
@owenversteeg Costco refills the 245XL, 245XXL, and 246XL cartridges for $10.49 each.
WHEN you buy cartridges for this printer BUY XXL BLACK AND XL COLOR! They hold considerably more ink than 245/246.
Costco carries a package of TWO XXL black and one 246 XL for $89.99. Refill them at Costco for $10.49 each.
This just became affordable.
@owenversteeg Don’t buy the regular or XL black, The XXL holds much more ink.
@mamawoot thats where refill my carts, but you can only do it 4 times, then ypu have to buy a new manufacture cartridge
@somf69 Why only 4 fills?
These cartridges can be filled many more times than that. they can be filled as long as they work.
The date stickers are just that, the date they were filled. The 5th fill gets a new sticker placed over the first one.
MY BAD!!
The XXL cartridges are the 240, not the 245.
XL is the best value you’ll get for this printer.
Okay, I have to chime in. I find ink for other printers from Inkjet Willy, at http://www.thefrugals.com/ Let the jokes begin. I also buy all my gift cards from Gift Card Granny.
@OldCatLady
I’ve suggested Gift Card Granny and Raise to people, in addition to cashback sites.
Some people look down at discount gift card and cash back sites which is a shame, as some nice savings could be made.
On a site used to use, there was a guy who did the purchasing for his company. His company gave him permission to make purchases through this site, and he was allowed to make a nice sum from it.
As for couponing in general, well, shows like Extreme Couponing show why it’s worth it. And yes, I know it’s more of ysmv.
bought it …
canceled it …
can’t afford the ink
can’t afford a $10 printer which will refuse to print anything unless it has both a color and a black cartridge installed
took the $10 and bought hot dogs and beer instead
@dickybilly Wait, it won’t print with only the black cartridge installed?
@sammydog01 Shit- should have checked sooner. Anyone want to sell an empty color cartridge?
@sammydog01 stops printing with an empty color cartridge too…read the printer spec on the canon site and the user ratings
@dickybilly Crap. Thanks for saving me the fifteen bucks for black ink. Looks like a deconstruction project for my teen. Or a baseball bat.
@dickybilly inkjet411.com reset your printer so it ‘forgets’ the identifying number of the color cartridge. It now thinks it has a new cartridge.
@dickybilly @sammydog01
Have you searched for hacks?
We use black electrical tape to block the optical sensor from seeing daylight through our Brother laser toner cartridges. Works like a charm to get every last bit of toner out of that $75 cartridge. (Rated at 8,000 pages, but as a result, we go months and months past the warning popup.)
@RedOak I looked and found some button that may or may not work- I’ll look some more.
@sammydog01 google something like “run Canon _ _ _ with empty color cartridge” and variants of that.
It’s amazing what folks have reverse-engeered. In our case a guy had done a professional howto YouTube.
@RedOak They say you can hold down the reset button and it will work, but I don’t know where to get an empty cartridge. I may have to buy a cheapie.
I’m thinking of getting this one for the kitchen. From what I have read it really excels at making jelly. Or, rather, it jams a lot. Either way, I love me some homemade jam!
@accelerator
/giphy so funny
@medz
Perfect. Typo and all.
Meh. Let me know when you are selling a 3D printer for that price.
Costco refills the 245XL, 245XXL, and 246XL cartridges for $10.49 each.
WHEN you buy cartridges for this printer BUY XXL BLACK AND XL COLOR! They hold considerably more ink than 245/246.
Costco carries a package of TWO XXL black and one 246 XL for $89.99. Refill them at Costco for $10.49 each.
This just became affordable.
Never buy regular capacity cartridges, high capacity are a better value to refill.MY BAD!
THE 245 only comes in XL.
Aw damn it. No USB cord. That’s the only reason I bought it. Reading sucks.
y’all might think I’m crazy but I took a thermal receipt printer that a business was throwing out. took me a while to find proper drivers but now i just send out stuff in small strips of paper using no ink. concert tickets, plane tickets, sometimes I use Photoshop to reformat them. but it never fails and it’s tiny!
no ink. Is this how they make their money? Sell a printer, pull the ink out, sell the in separately on ebay? Smart…but shady.
@heatedsauces Scroll up and read under “What’s in the Box” It says in bold print-- No ink
So, Meh is no shadier than usual.
@Barney right…i get it…but in the box it says it ccomes with two ink cartridges…so they opened the box took them out…resealed and shipped. I got what was advertised on the site, just not what was supposed to be shipped in the box.
@heatedsauces Well, maybe they will give us a great deal in ink?
@heatedsauces probably expired ink. Had to get it out of there to avoid complaints of printers not working
@heatedsauces @medz yea or a misprinted box… you know meh sells these sorta mistakes quite often… that’s why they are here and at that price (although I will agree that lately they have been pricing some things a bit more premium than they are).
But the real burning question… are the motors stepper motors?
@thismyusername naw, the instructions mentioned the ink too. Seemed to be room for ink in the cardboard piece that the cord was in.
Just arrived, how come the box states that the contents include ink and a cable?
@stuntdriver Just the power cable. You should have gotten that. No USB though. Ink was removed from the box (as stated in the sale) for your protection.
Yeah its Great Listing with lowest price at amazon SPAM FLAVORED SPAM IN A SPAM CAN IP2820 Printer
@Ronnie11
@Ronnie11 @thismyusername @thumperchick
This is still here?
But in honesty, you’re buying a printer for $10. Why wouldn’t you wanna buy ink from a (possibly) random place?
@thismyusername this looks like a project I’m working on for school.
@PantHeist
Any chance you’ll make a version of that for distribution?
@PlacidPenguin I’ve actually thought about making it open source and having it post information into spam-heavy venues to “test spam filters”…
Next time avoid to share the links
Just tried to install the new printer but the yellow light will not go out. Installed new Canon drivers but unable to get the printer to connnect. Can you send a replacement printer?
@gtbrandon Meh probably doesn’t have any more. Check the warranty link in this post to get in touch with Canon about your printer.
Never received it because for some reason it had to be signed for and I couldn’t get to the post office to pick it up that week so it was returned/refunded. But stupid me had also bought ink for it, so that was wasted money for ink I can’t use. I wish we could specify to let shipments be left at the door without a signature…frustrating!