Well it pissed me off as it didn't clearly state this on the box.
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OT: Why are printers constantly redesigned with no improvements?
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Researching won't negate the fact that they bring out new models every 5 minutes.
I don't even do that. I connect tanks to it and I pay the equivalent of $0.15 a cartridge.
That path isn't present on my machine.
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But we do, I don't know anyone who has changed printer for any reason other than "the stupid f****ng thing won't run anymore".
Mind you, that's because they deliberately wear out, my last one actually refused to run because the "waste ink tray was full". I could see the tray and it was in fact empty, not really surprising since ink is water based and tends to evaporate. I ended up paying £7 to a 3rd party to sell me a code to reset the level.
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Those things still exist! I thought they went out decades ago, yet you can win one with a pack of Pringles.
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I was born in 1975. The camera I used until ther early 90s was a Russian Fed 4, with Kodak film. I managed to find a supplier that made lenses that fitted it, and got a telephoto.
Do not buy a Fuji digital camera, they lie. My 10MP camera only does 2.5MP. The 10MP image is no clearer. Canon make good digitals.
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A lot of people think Renault and Fiat are good too, doesn't mean they're right.
Now try to overtake someone not in a Lada.
Colour lasers aren't as good quality, as the ink colours cannot merge.
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HP? They really do make some shit. They had a networked one at my work, when the printer was switched off, the driver could lock up any desktop connected to it! Completely locked up, couldn't even open the task manager. Turn the printer on, the computer wakes up, crazy.
I use ink tanks with tubes feeding the printer. 20 times cheaper than fake ink.
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Yip, with Epson they claim the waste ink tray is full when you can see it isn't and it couldn't possibly ever fill up because ink evaporates! And for a 10p tray you have to buy a new printer as it's not a "user replaceable part"? Fucking criminal.
The inks can mix to make different colours. If you want something of solid colour, like text or a graph, laser is better.
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Or lost many dollars. For everyone that makes a mint on the stock market, there is someone who lost that amount.
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On 7/24/2020 2:51 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote: ...
No. Absolutely false premise. It is not a zero-sum game.
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WTF is an "100-age"?
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There's something wrong with the world when the fate of a company lies in the hands of people who think it might do badly or well, and not how it really does.
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You take the number 100 and subtract your age. That is the percentage you should have in stock by one formular.
For example if you are 25 years old you have 100-25 = 75 % in stock. if you are 60 years old you have 100-60 = 40 % in stock.
I do not pay any atention to the old formulars. You should have so much in cash, so much in stock and so much in bonds by one old formular. The cash is probably in savings or CDs and not money laying around.
Most of my money is in the IRA mutual funds stock. When the marked took a dive a few months ago I lost about $ 100,000 from the highest it had been, but now I am about $ 6,000 ahead of a few months back when it was the highest. Probably lost all that in the last 2 days when Trump pissed off China again. I am still way ahead of where I was before Trump was elected. One fund was way down this year so far, but two others were up 4% and 10 %.
Another old formular was to take out 4 % of your money each year. I do not know how much I will be takin out in percentage in anothe year when the reuired minimum deduction takes effect. I will have to take out more than I want to spend, so may have to just invest that in some other stock or buy some things I would sort of like to have,but not really wanting.
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No way, I'll stick to safer places that can't go down aswell as up.
You're funding a terrorist organisation?
There's no r in formula.
I saw something once on TV that Google could predict very accurately what the stock market was about to do by monitoring the number of searches for different companies. I guess it was bullshit, or Google would have wiped the floor.
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What, you think companies always do better and better? What about all the ones going bankrupt?
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There's another little trick up the maker's sleeves. This article talks about GE refrigerators that have a chip installed in the filter to be sure it is a GE product. It goes on to talk about coffee makers, printers, and ventilators that have some sort of lock on them.
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The commentary is from James B. Meigs in Commentary Magazine. Note the mention of John Deere. Deere is top of the line farm equipment, hundreds of thousands of dollars.