• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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    12 days ago

    I just got an old HP inkjet that doesn’t care about reported ink levels and cheap ink bottles from AliExpress.

    I print white on black because I have so much damn ink and nobody expects dark mode documents. Kinda funny when I take out a sheet of paper and have to dry it out. 120g/m² is absolutely the minimum when doing such crap though. Regular 80g/m² just wrinkles up and leaks through, although that’s also a property of dye ink vs pigment ink.

    But I also lucked out on sales combined with coupons

    Currently it’s €18.50, though for 0.5L (~1 pint) that’s still cheap. Honestly I am surprised I actually received that.

    • Maple Engineer
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      22 days ago

      Nice. We had one printer or another that required expensive ink cartridges before we got the Epson. I used to refill some cartridges but it was a pain. Now I just open a set of bottles and top up the tanks whenever it’s thirsty.