@HELLOALICE If you have a cannon printer you can use 3rd party ink replacements I bought a pack that contained three packages of each color for only $20 on Amazon and the ink is of high quality.
I feel bad for HP Printer users because their printer is locked to only accept expensive HP Brand cartridges
@HELLOALICE@NoImNotNSA I have and HP 3830 and I use 3rd party ink replacements. It prints fine. I did get an error message the first time I put one of the cartridges in, but I took it out reseated it and it let me continue printing. Unless this is a recent, as in the past 2 years, kind of thing.
Even if you only occasionally need a printer, it’s still generally better to get a laserjet printer. Toner remains usable a whole lot longer than ink cartridges do.
@lljk As inexpensive as laser printers have become… even color lasers for under a hundy… it boggles my mind why anyone would still purchase ink jet. My own experience with ink printers: the effing ink is always dried up every time I needed to print something.
@narfcake My last surviving HP LaserJet 5si (11x17) is starting to grunt and groan like it’s not long for this world. I dread the task of finding a replacement. But I won’t do ink. Too many bad experiences with inkjet. One $100 5si toner cartridge lasts us around 14-16 months. Just enough time to dry up half a dozen $20 ink cartridges.
@capecodcaper I don’t recall the exact model number, but Adorama has been selling a… either a Kyocera or Ricoh multi function color laser for $80 delivered. Often $130, frequently on special for $80. I sent one to Mom last year and she loves not having to fuss with dried up ink. Unfortunately, she prints EVERYTHING in color, so I’m having to send a new set of toner every 6 mos.
@lljk@ruouttaurmind
Pro photo Inkjets are still much better for printing photographs (not necessarily this one)… but then again Costco is so inexpensive… for normal snapshots, there’s no need to print your own.
If you’d like to print your own photos, I’d get one of these Canon Pro printers currently $120 after HUGE rebate. Just last week they were $70 after the same rebate. I got one last year for around that after rebate. https://www.adorama.com/icapro100.html
I have a black and white laser printer for printing stuff out… I use it a lot less now that everything can read/write to pdf’s… but for those damn rebates, it still gets some use.
Believe it or not, that’s increasingly rare. To be clear, no, there’s no inherent connection between scanning and ink. I know that. You know that. Tell the printer companies that.
@stinks Been searching online reviews. It will print with only Black ink, but no mention of scanning w/o ink so I doubt it.
The more I try to think of a reason to buy, the more I find reasons NOT to buy.
@stinks Came here to ask this – I got it for the network scanning and occasional printing from my wireless devices… doesn’t appear like it’s possible. It errors out on setup. So either mine is DOA or you have to get ink for it. (Got some knock off crap off of ebay for $20.)
Yeah, no ink. I bought an HP for $20 around Christmas because the ink was included and the printer with ink was cheaper than buying it for my existing Canon. Turns out, HP has this new ink program where they track the number of pages and send you ink when needed. 15 pages a month is free, perfect for me. You can get more pages pretty cheaply too. One catch is the higher end, business inkjets are not eligible for the free offer.
I am about to buy ink for a PIXMA for a 3500 series and the ink, even generic cost more than this, if it included ink I would buy this right now. Not a bad printer, it’s nothing special but I really only need it a few times a year. I try to print stuff out at work if I can so I don’t have to buy ink.
Waiting for the cheap toner link.
Ahh, reminiscing about the days when they gave printers away for free,(after rebate), hoping they’d make their money back on ink refills. https://imgur.com/a/SiQXeuv
So this is what Cannon is making now instead of cameras. But does anyone want to print the pictures of their food or themselves when they can just share on Facebook… I mean Instagram?
Please stop giving these inkjet printer companies your money. Their ink is ridiculously over-inflated, and becomes useless if you don’t use your printer after a few weeks because the ink on the heads dries up. Buy a laser printer and don’t waste your money here. This printer doesn’t even come with ink, so you’re really spending like 3 or 4 times as much on this printer initially than the price says.
EDIT: Please don’t waste your money on this piece of shit.
@jibbyjam1 or people could be smart and buy a printer such as a Cannon which accepts 3rd party ink which you can buy enough ink to last you a year for the casual user for only $20.
I got 15 legit cartridges for $20 those will last me a full year
Other companies such as HP have set it so if you try to use 3rd party ink they’ll brick your printer until you buy their expensive ink this goes for ink jet as well
@dadown nope amazon sells 3rd party ink where you can buy a box of replacement ink for $20 and they actually work in Cannon Printers so if you bought this then went to amazon you’ll only be spending $34
Basically, this is a pretty cheap printer/scanner/copier for the 2-3 times a year when you need to print/scan/copy something and don’t want to leave your house to do it.
Umm. No. If you use it that infrequently, the ink will be dry.
And if that is the number of times you need it…
Library
FedEx Store
(Assuming nobody would steal from the office, right?)
Otherwise, Brother MFP laser printer/scanner/copiers all the way. Run forever unlike HP crap over the past 5-7 years.
Canon printers also SUCK if you have a Chromebook. Canon’s implementation of Google Cloud Print is buggy and their support laughable (except it will make you cry).
@ellett In my experience, that goes for Epson and HP as well- the only way I can get any of them to print from our Chromebook is to email the file to the printer…
@PhysAssist In my experience, both Epson and HP set up quickly and error-free first time and haven’t failed once in their years of service. Canon was so aggravating that after a few months I took mine out in the backyard and pulverized it with a sledgehammer. Only time I’ve ever done that.
Bought a Brother monochrome multi-function laser printer (DCP-7065DN) nearly five years ago for $129, came with a starter toner cartridge which had to be replaced within the first year – $22 for an off brand which is still going strong… I use it pretty infrequently though, and it works great except that the document feeder tends to crumple everything – flatbed works fine though and scans in full color.
Being as optimistic as possible, that a black inkjet cartridge would cost $15 and last 6 months before needing replacement (whether the ink was used up or not) - my printer effectively cost me $1 vs an inkjet. Moreover, I had ample warning that the toner needed to be replaced the one time, vs the common inkjet experience of having to print something right away, but having to run to the store for a new cartridge.
So to echo everyone else, $free would still be too much for the current offering, go buy a laser printer! You’ll save money in the long run, but more importantly, it’ll be far less frustrating to own and operate.
@ciabelle The $99 Brother monochrome laser, or its equally priced wifi-capable clone [which seems like the more obvious choice] are the current recommendations at The Wirecutter for laser printers. Sold at Target`
@rmeden Second the Brother advice. I have a brother inkjet that have had for 5+ years, and the 3rd party cartridges are dirt cheap and don’t seem to dry out. It’s the only brand I’ll buy from now on.
@olsmeister@rmeden Love the Brother multi-function lasers… but not third party cartridges if it is a duplex (2-sided) machine. Found otherwise highly rated 3rd party cartridges caused jams… only when printing or copying 2-sided. Went back to Brother cartridges and the problems went away. If you watch Amazon prices they bounce around - at least for our Brother cartridges.
@katylava With that kind of luck you should start buying lottery tickets! I’ve been through Epson, Canon, HP, and others, and every one of those inkjets has fouled from lack of use. Sometimes terminally.
@blaineg@narfcake maybe it did happen to me? what are the symptoms of ink drying up? i end up throwing out printers when i can no longer fix the alignment, but maybe it wasn’t an alignment issue. but, it still persisted when i changed out the ink cartridges.
@katylava A streaky/banding print is a symptom of clogged print heads. It’s a more debilitating issue with printers that have separate ink cartridges and print heads.
So you may have indeed experienced this before.
Actual alignment issues where lines aren’t straight are rarer; that tends to be the paper feed or carriage drive slipping.
@narfcake ah okay, that’s what happened to my epson then, i think.
but i’ve had this pixma for… i don’t know… when did meh sell it? and i had another cheap pixma a long time ago that lasted like 5 years. never had problems with either one. only replaced the first because i needed a printer/scanner. only replacing the current because i want wireless.
@katylava “when did meh sell it?” – More to the point, when did you buy it? In case you are not aware, you can check the first on the “past deals” tab on the top menu bar on this page; check the second on the “account” tab, under the “Your Orders” selection.
@blaineg@katylava with you X2- currently borrowing my nephew-in-law’s HP Desktop Laser MultiFcn, d/t my previously highly rated Epson WF3540 crapping out despite new ink cartridges- which really makes 0 sense, because the cartridge IS also the print head…
But there you go…
To anyone considering one of these, I owned a PIXMA all-in-one previously and the stupid thing would not scan unless it had ink. I called customer support and they confirmed that it was built into the software.
My ink had dried up while it sat there unused and one day I was in desperate need of a scanner and the thing couldn’t physically do what I had bought it to do for no reason other than Canon’s greed. I threw it away then and there and ordered a Brother laser all-in-one and it’s been great ever since.
@daaper Yeah. For that same reason I think I’ll buy a standalone scanner next time. As long as you keep it clean, it should last for ever. That way every time I have to buy a new inkjet printer, I won’t have to reconfigure the scanner and I can get a cheap printer with no scanner feature.
Did a Google search, and found $4 cartridges for this thing from someone called inktechnologies, which was a sponsored link. Any thoughts on them? It’s gotta be aweful ink, but for $8 bucks to get the scanner to work without ink being present? Yes Please!
I had a higher end PIXMA for 13 years before it gave up. It had two features I thought were available in the Epson ink tank series and I bought the least expensive of them because the footprint would fit my space. It , as it happens, does not have these two features: 1) print highlighted stuff and 2) double sided printing.
Anything out there that does? Neither is mentioned in the specs for this machine either.
@ESGERARD You’re not going to get double sided printing unless the specs explicitly call out duplex printing, and be prepared to pay more as well. Duplex printing really complicates the paper handling path.
@blaineg I am no techie----82 and never got the hang of a smart phone. Any idea which printers do what I want? I never know what to do when something comes only as an ebook and wasting all the paper to print one out one sided seems absurd.Also seems absurd to to have to print two pages when you want only two paragraphs so printing highlighted is much better.
@jtaube1@narfcake …and for the future, if you get cold feet within 60 minutes of the order, you can cancel it yourself! Simply to to your orders page where you will see a cancel link if it is still available.
I think mine was DOA – followed the instructions and immediately had an error light; thought it might have been because it didn’t have ink but doesn’t look like that’s the problem. Practically no support whatsoever for these printers… meh.
DRIVERS
i bought this just for the scanner. it says to refer to manual for instrux on installing the drivers via linux… where?
i tried installing the drivers in linux but neither the printer nor scanner are recognized even after reboot.
i tried installing the driver in win7 but it failed as well “failed to acquire info on dirver.”
can someone give me the instrux for using this via win7 or ubuntu THANKS
*Download / Installation Procedures
IMPORTANT: Be sure to connect your PC to the Internet while performing the following:
Download the file. For the location where the file is saved, check the computer settings.
Double-click the downloaded .exe file. It will be decompressed and the Setup screen will be displayed. Follow the instructions to install the software and perform the necessary settings.
Specs
Printer:
Copier/Scanner:
General
What’s in the Box?
1x Printer
1x USB cable
No Ink!
Price Comparison
$27.48 at Amazon
Warranty
1 Year Canon
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
I would’ve bought this for the ink
But
There’s no ink
@HELLOALICE If you have a cannon printer you can use 3rd party ink replacements I bought a pack that contained three packages of each color for only $20 on Amazon and the ink is of high quality.
I feel bad for HP Printer users because their printer is locked to only accept expensive HP Brand cartridges
@HELLOALICE @NoImNotNSA I have and HP 3830 and I use 3rd party ink replacements. It prints fine. I did get an error message the first time I put one of the cartridges in, but I took it out reseated it and it let me continue printing. Unless this is a recent, as in the past 2 years, kind of thing.
@HELLOALICE @NoImNotNSA Sorry. I use remanufactured cartridges, not 3rd party. Well, time to go bail my nephew out of jail.
@HELLOALICE @NoImNotNSA can you help me find the $20 ink? I’ve searched all over amazon and can only find one set for nearly $40…
Copy that
@AttyVette
Can’t copy that… No ink…
Even if you only occasionally need a printer, it’s still generally better to get a laserjet printer. Toner remains usable a whole lot longer than ink cartridges do.
@lljk Laser 4 Life
@lljk @Stallion I think you meant
“4 Lyf”
@lljk As inexpensive as laser printers have become… even color lasers for under a hundy… it boggles my mind why anyone would still purchase ink jet. My own experience with ink printers: the effing ink is always dried up every time I needed to print something.
@lljk Whole lot cheaper per page, too!
@lljk @ruouttaurmind They make all in one laser colors for under 100? I want in
@ruouttaurmind I did make a case for an inkjet at work; 11x17 laser costs a good fortune.
The Brother MFCs still have low printing costs, though, and still friendly with third party ink for even lower costs.
@narfcake My last surviving HP LaserJet 5si (11x17) is starting to grunt and groan like it’s not long for this world. I dread the task of finding a replacement. But I won’t do ink. Too many bad experiences with inkjet. One $100 5si toner cartridge lasts us around 14-16 months. Just enough time to dry up half a dozen $20 ink cartridges.
@capecodcaper I don’t recall the exact model number, but Adorama has been selling a… either a Kyocera or Ricoh multi function color laser for $80 delivered. Often $130, frequently on special for $80. I sent one to Mom last year and she loves not having to fuss with dried up ink. Unfortunately, she prints EVERYTHING in color, so I’m having to send a new set of toner every 6 mos.
@ruouttaurmind Yeah, with such low volume, inkjet won’t be a good choice.
@narfcake Only about 1500 pages/yr.
@lljk @ruouttaurmind
Pro photo Inkjets are still much better for printing photographs (not necessarily this one)… but then again Costco is so inexpensive… for normal snapshots, there’s no need to print your own.
If you’d like to print your own photos, I’d get one of these Canon Pro printers currently $120 after HUGE rebate. Just last week they were $70 after the same rebate. I got one last year for around that after rebate. https://www.adorama.com/icapro100.html
I have a black and white laser printer for printing stuff out… I use it a lot less now that everything can read/write to pdf’s… but for those damn rebates, it still gets some use.
@ruouttaurmind Yeah, we’re well over 1,500 pages/month at the office.
At home, I haven’t even gone through a single ream I bought 5 years ago.
@lljk ESPECIALLY if you only use it occasionally! Ink tends to dry up.
ink not included! Ah ha!
Laser only in this household.
Doesn’t come with ink?! Are you guys doing that thing I thought of where you just buy a new one when you run out of it?
Important: Can it scan without ink?
Believe it or not, that’s increasingly rare. To be clear, no, there’s no inherent connection between scanning and ink. I know that. You know that. Tell the printer companies that.
/giphy ink cartel
@stinks Been searching online reviews. It will print with only Black ink, but no mention of scanning w/o ink so I doubt it.
The more I try to think of a reason to buy, the more I find reasons NOT to buy.
@stinks Came here to ask this – I got it for the network scanning and occasional printing from my wireless devices… doesn’t appear like it’s possible. It errors out on setup. So either mine is DOA or you have to get ink for it. (Got some knock off crap off of ebay for $20.)
@styloroc
/giphy call shenanigans south park
So it is a $55 printer if you include the ink - not counting shipping for printer or ink.
@Kidsandliz I’m hoping it’s a $14 scanner.
@Kidsandliz or a $14 scanner
@Kidsandliz I think your math is off a bit.
Amazon is offering Canon ink cartridges for $34.
@rtjhnstn I had just clicked on a link and the B&W and color were sold separately and added it up. Didn’t spend the time to look for the cheapest.
Yeah, no ink. I bought an HP for $20 around Christmas because the ink was included and the printer with ink was cheaper than buying it for my existing Canon. Turns out, HP has this new ink program where they track the number of pages and send you ink when needed. 15 pages a month is free, perfect for me. You can get more pages pretty cheaply too. One catch is the higher end, business inkjets are not eligible for the free offer.
@ponagathos Sadly the ink dries up pretty quickly in HP printers.
I am about to buy ink for a PIXMA for a 3500 series and the ink, even generic cost more than this, if it included ink I would buy this right now. Not a bad printer, it’s nothing special but I really only need it a few times a year. I try to print stuff out at work if I can so I don’t have to buy ink.
@Jasonf1984 1 of the benefits of working, I print stuff there!
“YOU SHOULD KNOW: it does not come with ink.” I’ve never meh’d so fast in my life.
Waiting for the cheap toner link.
Ahh, reminiscing about the days when they gave printers away for free,(after rebate), hoping they’d make their money back on ink refills. https://imgur.com/a/SiQXeuv
conventional-obedient-raspberry
Just happen to need a new printer and the ink is widely available.
At $14, it’s $13 more than my current printer.
And it came with toner.
@narfcake, proof? Or at least a link?
@haydesigner My local Goodwill stores have $1 Thursdays for the colored tag of the week.
Proof.
Brother MFC-7860dw with 58k prints on it, but still working fine. Can’t complain for the price in any case!
Finally, the plan is clear: the inkjet is virtually free, but the ink will cost ya.
…weirdest looking butt-plug I’ve ever seen.
@alacrity Disclaimer: Kids, don’t try this at home! alacrity is a professional!
Laughable. A printer is a burden. Without INK? You’d have to pay me to take it.
So this is what Cannon is making now instead of cameras. But does anyone want to print the pictures of their food or themselves when they can just share on Facebook… I mean Instagram?
@hchavers No, silly. You use it to scan your food.
@hchavers Cannon make decent printers and you can use 3rd party replacement ink
Please stop giving these inkjet printer companies your money. Their ink is ridiculously over-inflated, and becomes useless if you don’t use your printer after a few weeks because the ink on the heads dries up. Buy a laser printer and don’t waste your money here. This printer doesn’t even come with ink, so you’re really spending like 3 or 4 times as much on this printer initially than the price says.
EDIT: Please don’t waste your money on this piece of shit.
@jibbyjam1 or people could be smart and buy a printer such as a Cannon which accepts 3rd party ink which you can buy enough ink to last you a year for the casual user for only $20.
I got 15 legit cartridges for $20 those will last me a full year
Other companies such as HP have set it so if you try to use 3rd party ink they’ll brick your printer until you buy their expensive ink this goes for ink jet as well
Interesting business model - sell the loss leader and ignore the profit making items.
This might be worth it from a hobbyist point of view. The stepper motors, gears, optical components, etc may be worth well more than $14.
@mehcuda67 Yeah, my thought exactly.
@mehcuda67 The inverse dimension, where the sum of the parts are more than the whole.
@mehcuda67 AAAAH get out of my head. I bought waaaaaay too much junk thinking I would use it for parts later.
When you still have to buy ink for it at $40+ a set and it might last 50 pages, the deal isn’t worth the bother.
@dadown nope amazon sells 3rd party ink where you can buy a box of replacement ink for $20 and they actually work in Cannon Printers so if you bought this then went to amazon you’ll only be spending $34
Umm. No. If you use it that infrequently, the ink will be dry.
And if that is the number of times you need it…
(Assuming nobody would steal from the office, right?)
Otherwise, Brother MFP laser printer/scanner/copiers all the way. Run forever unlike HP crap over the past 5-7 years.
Canon printers also SUCK if you have a Chromebook. Canon’s implementation of Google Cloud Print is buggy and their support laughable (except it will make you cry).
@ellett In my experience, that goes for Epson and HP as well- the only way I can get any of them to print from our Chromebook is to email the file to the printer…
@PhysAssist In my experience, both Epson and HP set up quickly and error-free first time and haven’t failed once in their years of service. Canon was so aggravating that after a few months I took mine out in the backyard and pulverized it with a sledgehammer. Only time I’ve ever done that.
@ellett Pictures, or it never happened- viday-o preferred!
@ellett @PhysAssist Office Space
@ellett @mehcuda67 Heheheheh!
I have almost this exact model. It is not great with any of it’s features, but it is cheap and gets the job done. Basically, you get what you pay for.
@DVDBZN The question you might be able to answer, & others have asked: Will it scan W/O ink
Bought a Brother monochrome multi-function laser printer (DCP-7065DN) nearly five years ago for $129, came with a starter toner cartridge which had to be replaced within the first year – $22 for an off brand which is still going strong… I use it pretty infrequently though, and it works great except that the document feeder tends to crumple everything – flatbed works fine though and scans in full color.
Being as optimistic as possible, that a black inkjet cartridge would cost $15 and last 6 months before needing replacement (whether the ink was used up or not) - my printer effectively cost me $1 vs an inkjet. Moreover, I had ample warning that the toner needed to be replaced the one time, vs the common inkjet experience of having to print something right away, but having to run to the store for a new cartridge.
So to echo everyone else, $free would still be too much for the current offering, go buy a laser printer! You’ll save money in the long run, but more importantly, it’ll be far less frustrating to own and operate.
@ciabelle The $99 Brother monochrome laser, or its equally priced wifi-capable clone [which seems like the more obvious choice] are the current recommendations at The Wirecutter for laser printers. Sold at Target`
3rd party ink starts around $32. I don’t buy cannon printers anymore… Brothers last forever even with 3rd party toner/ink
@rmeden Second the Brother advice. I have a brother inkjet that have had for 5+ years, and the 3rd party cartridges are dirt cheap and don’t seem to dry out. It’s the only brand I’ll buy from now on.
@olsmeister @rmeden Love the Brother multi-function lasers… but not third party cartridges if it is a duplex (2-sided) machine. Found otherwise highly rated 3rd party cartridges caused jams… only when printing or copying 2-sided. Went back to Brother cartridges and the problems went away. If you watch Amazon prices they bounce around - at least for our Brother cartridges.
I’m sticking with HP:
@sligett What is that? Can I have a model number?
@darkzrobe I just nabbed a random picture of one of HP’s pagewide web presses. Inkjet. Here’s one that shows a model number and gives a sense of scale
Then google HP latex. HP is more than desktop printers.
@sligett I have mostly only seen the Xerox printers in that size. Giant machines are like porn for me, Thanks!
@sligett I’ll bet they still charge more than gold for the ink.
@blaineg @sligett I hope when you are buying 200 liters at a time it’s a bit more economical. But I can’t find the ink on Amazon…
I don’t know what you guys are talking about re: dry ink. This has never happened to me and I don’t print very often.
Bought this to replace my non-wireless non-scanning $10 pixma I bought from meh last time.
@katylava With that kind of luck you should start buying lottery tickets! I’ve been through Epson, Canon, HP, and others, and every one of those inkjets has fouled from lack of use. Sometimes terminally.
@katylava I’ve had the same experience as @blaineg over the years. Maybe the dry weather here probably contributes them drying out?
@blaineg @narfcake maybe it did happen to me? what are the symptoms of ink drying up? i end up throwing out printers when i can no longer fix the alignment, but maybe it wasn’t an alignment issue. but, it still persisted when i changed out the ink cartridges.
@katylava A streaky/banding print is a symptom of clogged print heads. It’s a more debilitating issue with printers that have separate ink cartridges and print heads.
So you may have indeed experienced this before.
Actual alignment issues where lines aren’t straight are rarer; that tends to be the paper feed or carriage drive slipping.
@narfcake ah okay, that’s what happened to my epson then, i think.
but i’ve had this pixma for… i don’t know… when did meh sell it? and i had another cheap pixma a long time ago that lasted like 5 years. never had problems with either one. only replaced the first because i needed a printer/scanner. only replacing the current because i want wireless.
@katylava “when did meh sell it?” – More to the point, when did you buy it? In case you are not aware, you can check the first on the “past deals” tab on the top menu bar on this page; check the second on the “account” tab, under the “Your Orders” selection.
@katylava Before @PlacidPenguin comes in to answer this, 16 months and 10 days ago.
@phendrick lol, yeah, i know (i helped build the site)… but i’m lazy.
@katylava @phendrick
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/highly-efficient
Highly Efficient
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
@katylava [I bow down before you]
shades of lmgtfy.com
@blaineg @katylava with you X2- currently borrowing my nephew-in-law’s HP Desktop Laser MultiFcn, d/t my previously highly rated Epson WF3540 crapping out despite new ink cartridges- which really makes 0 sense, because the cartridge IS also the print head…
But there you go…
@narfcake
Could be, I’m in a very dry climate too.
To anyone considering one of these, I owned a PIXMA all-in-one previously and the stupid thing would not scan unless it had ink. I called customer support and they confirmed that it was built into the software.
My ink had dried up while it sat there unused and one day I was in desperate need of a scanner and the thing couldn’t physically do what I had bought it to do for no reason other than Canon’s greed. I threw it away then and there and ordered a Brother laser all-in-one and it’s been great ever since.
@daaper Yeah. For that same reason I think I’ll buy a standalone scanner next time. As long as you keep it clean, it should last for ever. That way every time I have to buy a new inkjet printer, I won’t have to reconfigure the scanner and I can get a cheap printer with no scanner feature.
@daaper @medz Brother Multifunction laser. Bullet proof. Prints, scans (color or b&w), copies like a charm. Ours even two-sided.
ARE YOU SERIOUS MEH?! I just broke down and bought a printer LAST WEEK and now you have one at a fraction the price. MEH I say! Fail timing.
@Asviloka How’s this for fail timing? Last month I bought the “refurb” (it was new) Sphero R2-D2 over on Woot for $70, today it’s $55.
@blaineg Ni.
@blaineg @narfcake we are no longer the Knights who say Ni.
@blaineg @RiotDemon
/giphy ecky ecky ecky pakang zoom boing
So what model of Brother laser for around $100 do you recommend?
@deemkooo Any of them. They’ve held up and even the OEM consumables are decently priced. Use third party toner and it gets even cheaper.
If you’re not in a rush, keep an eye out for sales at your local office supply stores. This was $90 a few months ago:
I’m worried about you meh. How do you make any money with the shipping cost?
@Bigbearballs Tomorrow they’ll sell the ink they took out of the boxes.
@Bigbearballs If I lose money selling an item, I’ll just make up the profits by selling more of them!
@Bigbearballs @medz No, they’ll wait until we find out it won’t even boot up w/o ink, so… a couple weeks?
Did a Google search, and found $4 cartridges for this thing from someone called inktechnologies, which was a sponsored link. Any thoughts on them? It’s gotta be aweful ink, but for $8 bucks to get the scanner to work without ink being present? Yes Please!
https://www.printerinkwarehouse.com/printer/Compatible+Pixma+MG-3022+Ink+Refills/31691/
I tried to purchase on-line but ‘Meh’ would not accept my zip code?? (never happened with any other retailer)
@PiperMack Is the zip from Hawaii or Alaska? Does the ZIP match your payment method billing address?
"here, you throw this away"
should be a meh slogan.
I hope it comes with a power cord…
@masismore comes with a usb cord! Unlike a non-wireless printer they sold once. (even though the box said it did)
@medz Then how do you power it without a power cord?
@masismore powered by hopes and dreams. I’m sure it comes with power cable
@medz An included USB cable is so rare, it almost makes up for no ink.
Nope, no, it doesn’t.
I had a higher end PIXMA for 13 years before it gave up. It had two features I thought were available in the Epson ink tank series and I bought the least expensive of them because the footprint would fit my space. It , as it happens, does not have these two features: 1) print highlighted stuff and 2) double sided printing.
Anything out there that does? Neither is mentioned in the specs for this machine either.
@ESGERARD You’re not going to get double sided printing unless the specs explicitly call out duplex printing, and be prepared to pay more as well. Duplex printing really complicates the paper handling path.
@blaineg I am no techie----82 and never got the hang of a smart phone. Any idea which printers do what I want? I never know what to do when something comes only as an ebook and wasting all the paper to print one out one sided seems absurd.Also seems absurd to to have to print two pages when you want only two paragraphs so printing highlighted is much better.
PLEASE CANCEL THIS ORDER A.S.A.P.
@jtaube1 Posting in a public forum will not get your order cancelled.
If you haven’t done so, contact support. Alternatively, there’s a way convenient “I need help with this” on your orders page also.
@jtaube1 @narfcake …and for the future, if you get cold feet within 60 minutes of the order, you can cancel it yourself! Simply to to your orders page where you will see a cancel link if it is still available.
I think mine was DOA – followed the instructions and immediately had an error light; thought it might have been because it didn’t have ink but doesn’t look like that’s the problem. Practically no support whatsoever for these printers… meh.
No Ink!? The box says there is ink and so do the instructions!
@slapshotma
As per the specs at the beginning of this thread, as well as the item description on the main page, ink is not included.
DRIVERS
i bought this just for the scanner. it says to refer to manual for instrux on installing the drivers via linux… where?
i tried installing the drivers in linux but neither the printer nor scanner are recognized even after reboot.
i tried installing the driver in win7 but it failed as well “failed to acquire info on dirver.”
can someone give me the instrux for using this via win7 or ubuntu THANKS
@nospam You get your windows driver from here?
*Download / Installation Procedures
IMPORTANT: Be sure to connect your PC to the Internet while performing the following:
thanks. yes. that windows driver elicited the error
"failed to acquire info on driver”