Very early inkjet were made more honestly, the "low ink warning" really were because the sensor fail to detect acceptable level of ink remaining... however that no longer the case with more modern inkjet. With modern inkjet the chip in the cartridge would simply count how many the ink has been sprayed, and after the counter reach certain threshold it would always gives the "low ink warning" regardless of actual level of ink that are still available in cartridge. So even you managed to re-fill the cartridge the bogus "low ink warning" would persist.
@@samm4192 Yes but when I refill my tank the gas left stays in; when I replace my ink cartridges I don't get to keep what's left. Meanwhile, I had to hover over the printer because after every page it stopped to warn me I was low on ink and ask if I want to continue, and I'd get a pop-up message to order more. So I couldn't just let it do a print job and go about other things, I had to stand there manning every print job. I think they waste our time like that to get us to change them prematurely.
Recently Canon has started selling cartilages without the chips due to chip shortages and now they are telling their customers how to bypass the printers built in ink recognition systems
I just can't comprehend how such a wasteful environment-molesting industry has flown under the radar for so many years. You simply breathe in the direction of a color inkjet printer and it throws a message to replace the ink cartridges. Moving to laser printers with toner solves a lot of the breakdown headaches, but the toner cartridges are still supremely expensive and wasteful when discarded. I'm not a tree-hugger by any stretch but the printer industry really doesn't give a shit about the planet at all.
Third party toner cartridges can work just fine. I just recently bought some and they were about 85% less than what the "official" cartridges cost. It isn't a foreign cheap knock-off either. The company is based out of California. I was amazed a company like this even existed.
the solution is to buy good quality remanufactured cartridges (be careful who packages Chinese clone cartridges as remanufactured) make sure you buy local remanufactured product, once checked it is easy to check
My friend, that's not true, here in Spain I'm buying XL toner cartridges for my Brother MFC-L2700DW at 9,20€, the original Brother MFC-L2700DW toner cartridge costs over 48€ and it's not XL (official one can print over 2600 pages, XL one can print 5200 pages). Original Brother DR2300 drum lets you to print over 12.000 pages and costs over 85€, the one I bought, lets you to print 12.000 pages too, but it costs 11,20€. Ok, but... What about quality? If you find a good dealer, you have nothing to fear, my toner cartridge is a premium one, from a third party company which is always looking for good toner supplier (I mean good quality at an affordable price). So the trick is not buying the first cartridge but doing a good research work with Google, comparing quality and prices, it's not easy, but if you do it, you'll finally discover a good dealer, with quality products, at a very affordable prices.
For years I've wondered why my Epson printer would run out of cyan or magenta when I print 99.9% black. Now I know. Thanks Austin. Oh, and I no longer have a printer and don't print anything anymore, except for my yearly auto registration, which I have printed at on office supply store for $2.
I've given up on printers too... haven't needed one for a while, really. I mean... not regularly. I have a Cannon which I loved... it lasted quite a while. I think it looks like a Stormtrooper. White on the outside, black on the inside, and has nice curved corners. It worked fine for several years then randomly broke. I don't know what the problem was. Now, I can't even get it to talk to my computer. Even when it is hardwired. I print things for 10c at the library, or longer documents at my parents'. And really haven't needed anything printed in a while. I liked that it was wireless and had the scanner. I do have a simple flatbed scanner... it isn't wireless... but it also never breaks. Lol And then I had a 2nd printer I'd gotten for the brief time I had an office... I got it used from someone else for like $25. It has mainly sat around in my possession. So, when my Stormtrooper died, I thought, well, I have a 2nd... let me pull that out. But, alas... it also has decided it doesn't want to work either. So, now I have 2 broken printers. I'd tried to get the Stormtrooper fixed... but of course, everyone told me to just get a new one. 🤷🏻♀️ The stupidest industry...
This is why I use a purely black-ink laserjet printer. Even then, I rarely print physical copies of stuff and usually just when the document's a few pages long. Othwerwise, digital all the way.
Just for the laser printers so that you don't have to worry about different inks. There's just one color and it doesn't "dry up" unlike the tip inkjet printers do.
tip: use laserprinters, they need toner instead, which is 50-90 bucks at brother or you can use epson ecotank printers which let you refill giant tanks of ink and the printers come with a whole load of ink
I've been working in an electronics repair shop for the last 8 years. Over this amount of time, inkjet printers have become the worst thing I've ever had to work on. Pretty quickly into my repair career I made the choice to stop working on them all together. Every single one of them is a complete nightmare to disassemble. And even if you are able to find the fault, chances are the only way to get a replacement part is to pull it from _another_ identical printer. Laser printers on the other hand? Absolute dreams. Some of them are more difficult to take apart than others, and there is something to be said about the whole DRM on toner cartridges thing...but the nice thing about laser printers is they are _designed_ to be repaired. At least in my experience. Getting black lines while printing? There is probably some paper stuck to the fuser, or the fuser is dirty and needs to be cleaned. Paper getting stuck? It's probably the duplexer or the fuser. Not printing at all, just sending paper through? You guessed it, it's probably the fuser! You know what's nice about most problems being the fuser? _THEY CAN EASILY BE REPLACED._ In every laser printer I've serviced, the fuser is contained in one easily removable module that can typically be purchased for anywhere from $30 to $100. Depends entirely on the model...but considering most fancy laser printers are anywhere from a few hundred to upwards of $1k, that's a price well worth paying to get it working again. The other nice thing about laser printers? They have less issues overall. If you don't use an inkjet printer for 6 months, there is a very high chance it will just suck at printing when you end up using it. The ink gets all nasty, the print head gets all dirty, and you'll probably just have to buy a new printer. I have seen this happen so often that I'm convinced it is by design. Laser printers don't do this. That toner can sit in the cartridge for a year, you can never use the thing that whole time. And then when you go to use it, it just frickin prints. _AT WORST_ you might have to take the cartridge out and shake it a bit. But that's it. I think what surprises me the most about inkjet printers is, the technology behind how they work is actually incredible. Considering how precise all of it has to be, I'm amazed that they even work to begin with. They really are fascinating pieces of technology. But they all SUCK because of greed. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Thanks, I am planning to buy a inkjet printer even though I have a brother laser printer, hoping that the inkjet printer would be less complicated and cheaper than the laser printer. Now I know I'm wrong because of your knowledgable comment. Thanks again from Myanmar
Hmm ... it may be the fuser? Own a HP Laser IIIp, which I worked to death and I refuse to let it rest in peace. Such a great printer. Have changed some parts and still not working, but I'm gonna go back to it. There was a company where they used to refill the cartridge - now they sell the toner for refills. Also have a Canon BJC-85 bubble jet - refilled the cartridges with no problems whatsoever. Now got this Canon TS3522, black ink printing blank pages - you're right, if not used, the ink dries up and clogs. Opened the cartridge with a blade, removed the sponge, soaked the head in water, rising often until water came clear and voila! It's working and the blinking light is off. Anyway, not just printers but all kinds of electronics, televisions, etc., that end up at the man-made thrash islands in the Pacific that can be seen from space. We are at the point of no return.
I had used the same HP printer 1010 Laserjet from 4th grade to my graduation using the same toner cartridge. Now if anyone asks me what printer to buy I just say any cheap laserjet from any reputable. company. But I am tempted by the new ecotank models of printer.
Ahahaha you are SOOO right, I am honestly getting rid of my HP junk piece of crap, gonna buy either a laser printer or one of those new Epsons that have cheap ink and no cartridge.
@@sergiofreitas9368 HP's cheap inkjet printers are garbage. I tend to go with Brother but literally anyone (especially Epson) is better than HP in that space. HP makes printers that report there is no ink despite there being ink, or print head failures a mere year after purchase, and every year they release a new model slightly different from the old one but still incompatible...
Absolutely right, today I came home with a Epson ET-2750, even though I only used it for like 1 hour now, I can immediately feel the difference, it doesn't feel as flimsy, better UI, more features, the WiFi connection paired instantly, it reckognized all of my devices instantly without messing with shitty driver CD's, and most importantly, it has none of these overpriced cartridges, I will let you know how it holds up in the future.
my mom actually has/had a not too bad HP printer (OfficeJet 5605). We got a new Epson printer for new features and ink that won't cost you 60 bucks. per. cartridge..
@@EyeOhNine It's not "a missing space." It's a totally different part of speech and the meanings are very different conceptually. A setup is a noun. "Set up" is a verb phrase. I wish I were surprised you needed an explanation. Hopefully you're still in school.
@@encycl07pedia-Buddy, I’m a grammar Nazi too, but this one wasn’t that big of a deal. It WAS just a missing space, seeing there was no loss of communication. Calm down and touch some grass.
One thing you missed is that if you try to save your ink and use it sparingly it either dries out or the printer automatically and routinely uses some ink to run a jet cleaning cycle.
I’d like to print this document *yup* It’s in black and white *yup* And since it’s in black and white, you don’t need colors to print it *That makes sense to me* Then print it *Need magenta ink*
Don't know about magenta, but most printers also print yellow microdots called the Machine Identification Code on every single paper they make, they identify the device that printed the document and can give clues as to who printed it. It's been a thing since the mid-80's and people only learned about it in 2004. You'd need special equipment to see them clearly, and even if you do, you'd need to know how to decode them to get any information out of them. Like I said, they ARE yellow, and are printed on EVERY paper, even if in black and white. They're small but they're printed several times (in case the printing process makes them unreadable) all over the paper on EVERY paper, so that adds up over time.
I was about to buy more ink for my printer, I thought this video was gonna tell me a nifty trick to fix my old low ink cartridges... surprised that it didn't but ngl seeing the printer being bashed by a sledgehammer was 1000% worth it
I did that to my first printer bought 10yrs ago. After one year of almost no use tells me no ink when the cartridge is 90% full. I took it out saw a microchip and sorta figured out what was going on. Threw that thing down and based it into pieces. Never bought another printer since. I just go to my work office to print anything.
Printer ink 100% is a scam. My printer keeps telling me its expired ink but I take the ink cartridge out without rotating it and somehow the ink spills everywhere. It got all over my hands and the floor and permanently stained them, I tried different soaps and it won't come off. I don't understand how anybody is supposed to remove the ink cartridge without ink going everywhere, I literally just removed it normally without rotating. So not only does the ink seem like perfectly fine, they are probably wankers that find it amusing not only to scam people by making them buy more ink, but also when you go to replace the ink, they probably find it amusing how it will spill everywhere when you try to pull it out without rotating it.
Me and my brother managed to convince my mom that a $300 ink tank printer will worth more than a $50 cartridge printer and its $50 cartridge. In a month, we used up enough ink that would've cost $500 in cartridges, with only $10 in bulk ink.
Same here. Got a 350 dollar tank printer after deciding 75 dollars for a complete set of ink on our crappy old printer was just unacceptable. The new one has no cartridges, just ink bottles. There's no way to put in a chip to require their branded ink. Very happy with it.
Fun fact: many consumer printers have a print limit. After something like 100,000 pages it will say “I’m broken!” And stop working. I know because my dad printed postcards out for his business and hit this limit multiple times. He had a little piece of code that reset it and magically the printer was no longer broken...
@@Helladamnleet It doesn't take any longer than 30 seconds of googling, numbnut :P Anyway, the comment is a bit misleading because some printers do indeed stop working after a predetermined number of pages have been printed but it doesn't say "I'm broken" it just advises the user to take it to maintenance which is understandable because the limit only kicks in after hundreds and thousands of pages. It can be easily reset using some special software.
@@Helladamnleet The ultimate proof is the printer itself. open it and count integrated circuits on all PCBs. even jet head has one. Think why are it so many. I say - one of it count amount of printed sheets. after fixed number the printer start make something to demonstrate "buy next printer. i will die soon"
I just wanted to say this was the first video I found on your channel a while back and I've been a fan ever since. So I always knew printers and ink prices were a huge scam, but this video really shocked me. Not just the retail vs manufacturing price but the way the company will give software updates to further scam you and intentionally waste a good portion of ink and cause the printer to have problems. I've showed this to plenty of people ever since.
Hooked On Chronics They won’t die. Look at the TH-cam channel “Explore with us”. Specifically the “what they aren’t telling you” video. The worst that will happen is a few people will go to jail. Unless someone tries to assault a police officer or something.
@@z-beeblebrox the fact we have to pay the price of the printer just for the printer to operate then twice the price of the printer for a new printer when it breaks down and twice the price of that printer for ink kinda makes it a pain in the ass
Thanks to all the Indian and Russian TH-cam channels that helped me repair my printer, I've been using the same one for about 6 years and the only problems I have are with dry ink on the tubes when I don't use it for a long time, which is something I don't blame on the company that much. Pay the little extra for a printer with ink tanks, it is worth it and don't be afraid to Google how to repair stuff.
There were a lot of those ink refill shops a decade ago where they would charge a lower price to refill your existing ink cartridge. a lot of them shut down
Btw, this should be done with all our technological products, like when you have to get rid of a good cell phone just because there's no more updates on the software and even on the apps, or as like happened here, they start being incompatible 😩
I completely believed after he said "today I am doing something about it" he was going to say he was making his own printer without the scam ink cartridges lmao
same, I was all excited about learning how to make your own printer ink or something. Instead he went all office space on his mom's printer. I hope he bought her a new one after that :D
The whole "Pixma" series of printers are an absolute joke. They are made so that they arrive broken. Wifi models don't work on wifi and require special knowledge to activate. The software only works for 7 up to 14 days and then it asks for money just to be able to print. IF you try using another software the drivers make your life a living hell giving you wrong aspect ratios and various wrong sizes. Yeah it costs 20 pounds for the whole printer. But the headache that comes with it is not worth it. Especially after 100 pages when the printer says you need new ink cartridges. Pixma models are a joke. Do not buy.
No no.. Enter Samsung c410w ! Lazer printers are scams too and even worse. Simply moving them around kills them. I wish there were a DIY printer kit somewhere. A printer built around simplicity (open source?).
Majority of manufacturers will only put a fraction of the amount of ink included in the box as compared to a new cartridge. This is just wasteful of resources.
That's a good solid well made bench and well bolted to the wall you have there! Thanks for the great and enlightening video. I was already aware about the ink cartridges being the part that pays for the printer, but the extent with the rest of it..... that was an eye opener.
@I’m boutta E well you see, apple wants to make their devices irrepearable, for example apple has paired each devices home button to the device itself. so lets say you wanted to replace the home button by a third party alternative, without the help from apple. the device would not turn on as a result of the unpaired home button, rendering the device completely useless. unless the home button was repaired by apple themselves, which if it wasnt obvious enough, would cost more money and more effort, because they would replace the entire display instead of just the home button. luckily apple did get sued for this and has allowed third party home button replacements without the device not turning on
I agree with you! I stopped buying ink and took it to Costco to refill in the past, but they got rid of it. Guessing the printer company was upset about that...
Proprietary software for "effortless conection" is also why it's difficult as hell to keep a printer actially working. Honestly, anti-trust laws need to be expanded so companies release schematics and shit so they stop getting away with this.
They never saw that coming: a clerk from the call center eventually becoming a famous youtuber to expose their business strategy and start a revolution.
I had only one inkjet printer back in the 90's for occasional printing. The Ink cartridges would always dry out and you would have to buy new ones. I went with laser and never looked back. I made my parents get a laser printer as well. Their's is still going 20+ years later with only having to replace toner every now and then and at some point I replaced rollers. I have a laserjet that we've had years as well. It just works. I steer anyone away from inkjets as they are nothing but a money pit.
When the ink “runs out” my mom just gives away the printer and buys a cheap one for $30 at Walmart. I used to think she was nuts until she showed me the ink prices 🤷♀️
😂Literally just bought, $40 printer(with ink in it) because it cost like $60 to buy more damn ink for my old one. Method 2. Keep exchanging the "new" printer 3 days later when it runs out.. When the clerk asks why, simply recite one of the thousand b.s. fault codes that "sound real technical" as a reason. Ya know, use the printer companies tactics against them....Oh gee, my printers pairing ability is incompatable with my wi fi decryption..oh and by the way the quantum dual flux compasiter overheats in hyperdrive😄😉
@@pauldeddens5349 why not laminate too? it keeps the plastic ink on the page for longer and if you have a white board marker you can doodle on the page and clean it after and do it all again!
For many years, when I ran out of printer ink, I'd just go buy a new printer because the cost was cheaper than replacing the ink. Then I noticed the newer printers started having those features that would make them unusable well before you actually ran out of ink (old ones would actually do what they could and mix different colors - if you told them to - to achieve the best results when certain cartridges ran out). On top of that, the printers began coming with "starter cartridges" that could only print a few pages before the printer shut down. Once this happened, I ditched ink jet printers. I dug out an old one I had where the scanner works even without ink (yes, the new ones disable the _scanner_ if the ink runs out), and bought myself a laser printer. I use these two devices in tandem and have now gone years without having to replenish my printer (plus the laser printer is faster and never _ever_ has any issues when trying to print).
You can now buy an Eco Tank printer from Epson that is built with refillable reservoirs for ink. The printer costs $200 and the ink is very cheap. This is the way it should have been sold from day one.
Emanuel Tavano received mine today, 2 of each bottle in the box and it works flawlessly. Hope the components can last at least ten years. But I agree, this is how it should be and I think this kind of printers will be the future. Plastic is not so popular now and peop,e are getting more aware of the this kind of rip-off with cartridges.
yeah epson was not one of them... i trust epson... you can refill it by your self and very cheap and easy... and its soooooooo loooooong before the ink drain....
Unless you're printing photos it's almost always better to just get a cheaper color laser printer. Epson is making good printers these days...avoid HP like the plague. I have worked on printers for many years and every time I have to touch a newer HP I cringe.
I think we are all running into that problem. Thank you for making this video. I was about to buy a printer, and the ink price is almost the same as the printer by the time I buy the replacement ink, I am not sure if they give you the first set of ink, but Epson and Canon are expensive. I just say forget it.
As a sellsman/technician I wouldn't waste my precious time trying to fix these awful printers and tell them to use the tech support cost on just buying a new printer, fixed the issue 99% of the time. Also I would point customers over towards which printers that I had learned had a full cartridge of ink instead of test cartridges with 10-20 sheets they put in the box, often times these printers would be on sale for 40-50 bucks making a new printer, cables, paper and ink cartridges LESS expensive than just buying the ink
from where i come from you can actually just buy the ink and refill it yourself, idk but they just put weird cables in the modded printer and just buy the ink. That is the way out.
Back in 2008, my first printer was a Lexmark. Poor thing, it worked beautifully, I filled up those cartridges (with a syringe) lots of times, still worked. It only stopped working when I accidentally broke a plastic bit that was holding the cartridge in place. But it still worked if I tied the cartridge with a bit of wire. But... I decided to buy a Canon. It was horrible. Every now and then I would get E5 error message (problem with ink) and after I spent twice the price of the printer on cartridges, I swore I'd never buy a Canon again. I currently have a HP laser printer. What I hate most about gadgets in general is that the more "technologically smart" they become, the more they are likely to be programmed not to work anymore, so that you have to replace them.
me: ok finally i have time to print this document printer: wait but first i need cyan ink :) me: don't worry i dont need to use cyan printer: *d i d i s t u t t e r*
All I needed was to use the scanner. "Feed me, feed me! Can't scan without ink!" I tossed the thing out and got a Bother laser printer. It's less worse.
I needed my own printer to scan and print whenever without interrupting my dad who is like a power printer. Got a very cheap Epson Ecotank 2400 (lowest model) on amazon and it came with 4 bottles of ink that you use to fill the corresponding reservoirs. Each bottle is like 80 or so cartridges worth and can last 2 years depending on print schedules. All we paid was $170
i am an IT Guy anytime time i am asked "what printer should i get" my automatic response used to be "b&w laser" they'd complain "ohhhhh but i want color" then end up buying buy some shity officejet and $200 worth of ink now I respond by simply emailing them a link to this video. end of discussion. bless u, brother
Still have a Laserjet 2100M (52,50 euro for one high capacity toner cardridge capable of printing 7750 pages) here with JetDirect card plus a Color Laserjet CP1515N for any color work. The 2100M is a printer from 1999 and it still works flawlessly, and initially did work until 2005 as an office printer of the local university until they switched to Xerox. The running costs for home use are seriously low with laserprinters, especially if you only print incidentally. Where liquid ink might dry up and clog the print head of a inkjet printer, toner is dry ink powder with dried resin (which melts and sticks to the paper by laser) . So it can't clog anything up. So yeah, any IT guy with some sense knows what to get. Definitely! So does this IT guy here. 👍
@@The77Game They could still mix in cyan. Also the black cardridge in a color printer is a lot smaller... 1200 to 1500 pages as opposed to 7750 pages. Since most documents are black and white anyway, it is thus still much cheaper to go with a B&W printer but it depends on the user's needs of course.
@@LogiForce86 A couple of things. 1) They COULD mix in cyan but DO they? If we don't know then there is no reason to mention it as a reason not to get it. 2) As you mention, you were able to get a toner cartridge with a lot of pages capacity but the typical b&w printers i just checked a few of are only in the 2-3000 page capacity. My parents color laser gets a 2000 page black cartridge(it doesn't run out of cyan any faster than the other colors by the way) 3) The biggest point i would make to the OP is that if someone asks me about what printer to get and they mention they want color then there is no point in telling them to get a b&w printer. The color versions are very affordable now. If they want color, get a color laser printer. I have told people that for many years now. Especially if you sometimes don't print anything for a couple of months. Then the ink printer is done in my experience.
@@robinmunkittrick4569 the thing is... you need to have admin rights for this. And if it´s your work pc you HAVE to call IT and bother them with this nonsense... I feel sorry for the IT guys :(
My dad tends to print a lot of stuff and the issue is almost never his pc. His printers que thats stored on the printers internal memory usually caps out because it cant remember to clear itself once its been powered off. This is the same issue most dvd/blue ray players now have. And is often the reason your player stops working all together. The system memory is stuffed with old stop data from the last however many movies you watched on it and the player stopped clearing the cache to reset itself. Now the part that pisses me off is this isnt an issue in any other industry of tech. And where it was an issue in the past with early sdram and memory modules. Its been fixed for a very long time now. So the bs excuse of printing technology is expensive is bullshit. The most tech research they do is how to go from design to production with the least amount of issues. The printing tech hasn't changed its still an ink carriage that houses the cartridges that uses mostly the same technology as the first color printers from the late 90s. The worst part about the system not clearing its cache every once in a while to avoid most of the issues people have with printers (aside from clogged heads or bent carriage guide) is a single command line with a time delay. Say every 800- check system, to make sure the system isnt actively printing, if not clear system cache. Timer resets and so on... i remember the first time i watched this video i got pissed for the same reason. Its a single command line that for some reason nobody is using and could save a lot of user frustration. But i think its intentional to get you to buy a new system. They cant sell you new ink if you dont have thier new printer. And if they had that issue fixed with blu ray or dvd players you would likely never need to buy another.
I recently brought a second hand HP printer. Was only £20 and they said ink was brand new and printer was just unused in the corner for the last year. I put the ink in took the plastic protectors off and an error came up on the printer. "Unable to print until printer has been registered on HP instant ink" So I tried to to register and sort it out, no luck because apparently the ink had been registered with another instant in customer and was unable to be transferred and I'd have to buy new ink and re-register the printer. HP instant ink is a joke, a subscription fee to use a printer is insane and the fact 10 pages cost £1 is also a joke for a printer that was purchased.
Reminds me of what my Dad did. For some reason, the ink cartridges are more expensive than the actual printers (at least, wherever he was buying from) - so, every time his printer ran out of ink, he'd just buy a new printer, which comes with new ink, and save himself a ton of money lmao
Here in Russia we use hacked refillable cartriges or attach reservoirs to circumvent this problem. For decades! One may say we are voiding the warranties.. But what is that warranty if they don't respect it here anyway xD
@@dante8885 I honestly don't know the details, all I can say we just use third party refillable cartriges, and the chips in them are made to reset themselves when you refill them
Shit. You Russians are so advanced. While the rest of us are slaves to coporatocracy, you just go ahead and DIY. Teach me your secret, I want to be free from planned obsolescence.
I had to go check the prices to find out if this was also how things are in India, fortunately they are not, printer are about $150 while ink is $10, guess they realised that Indians will dismantle every part of the damn thing to figure out a cheaper way
Third party ink resellers on Amazon can be pretty good and affordable. I get a pack of 20 assorted cartridges for like $20, where the equivalent from Canon would cost $320. I'm not printing full page 4k photographs or art so paper and ink quality literally doesn't make a difference.
So relatable. I had an HP printer that was always low on ink, was horrible at printing in color even after print head cleaning, and just was a pain to own. I now have a brother printer that I have had for almost two years. I replaced the ink maybe once and it is pretty reliable. However it still unnecessarily uses color ink.😤
Sometimes I like to come back to this video and watch it again, just to hear you say "mouses". In other news, the laser printer I bought shortly after seeing this video the first time is still working beautifully, printing crisp pages with just the tiny little toner cartridge it came with. Well done, sir.
Eiad DS Yea my shit keeps drying up and I have to print 5 test pages and do a lot of shit just to keep it flowing and then it tells me ink is low and I have to replace the ink cartridge. After that I have to printe a bunch of more test pages because one color isn't working. All that shit just so I can copy/Print a b&w document.
some printers turn on automatically to do "nozzle cleans" periodically.... inkjet is just a flawed technology... My laser color printer original carts have lasted 5 years without issues.. only print a few pages / year
I own a refillable printer, it was an early concept made by my uncle sometime in the late '90s... it is out of date but recently I bought a 3d printer, grabbed some components from an old reliable printer which sadly went out of ink, and seated the PCB in the old concept printer with some 3d printed bits and pieces, then I diluted some ink and filled it... it works just fine!
At the time I've seen your video, it's already over 4 years old - and still incredibly relevant! Man - why do we allow ourselves to be scammed in this way?
Actually HP does *exactly* this, and will sometimes offer incentives for you to "Recycle" your old (not completely used) ink cartridges so you can get screwed over again-and again....and again... (you see where this is going? Me too)
Unfortunately, if his campaign to get cheaper ink succeeds, it will blow up in his face, as printer manufacturers will simply stop selling their printers at a loss, and printers will suddenly become hella expensive, all to protect these manufacturers' profits.
I am so grateful for this vidoe. I thought I was going crazy. I my cartridges was half in could see and hear the ink in them but my printer said it was empty and so it did not print any more. I eventually gave up and can my printer away. I now print all by document and a copy shop.
@6:40 he makes a great analogy. Having your printer not work even though it STILL has ink, is like your car shutting down, saying your gas tank is empty, even though you have half a tank of gas.
Many independent makers sell continuous ink supply systems (CISS) that can be installed on certain printers to get around having to spend $60 on those disgusting ink cartridges. CISS cost slightly more, but you can print MORE pages per refill, and the bottles cost 10x cheaper than cartridges! Think of the savings!
We actually used to have ink refill shops in the US too (about 20 years ago), but for some reason they all went out of business in the mid 2000s. I highly suspect the printer companies were behind it.
@@yozefa so, how much on average would a used, full cartridge cost? Imagine flying down and picking up 1000...and re selling them!!! Hell, at this point the cartridges are drugs.
Great video I cannot stop laughing because these are the things I literally have gone through in the past two weeks trying to fix my Epson🤦♂️😂🤣 I wish I would have seen your video earlier💯
In 21 years of life I have seen my dad throw at least 7 printers down the stairs, out the door, out the window, at walls And yenno... I don't blame him
@chiggly 123 i have a canon ,it doesnt work any more. Beacause Windows 10 dont support him. Its a.printer that works fine on Windows 8 but 10 doesnt support it. And i refuse to buy a New one only for that reason
My dad used to have a HP printer which determined the emptyness of the cartridges based on the date and time. You could have a brand new cartridge but if it was old then the printer wouldn't let you print. We used to have to roll back the date on the computer to print on that printer. We threw it out and now have an awesome Epson EcoTank
8:12 thats actually exactly how colors work and usually if you professionaly print something you have a mix between cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Cyan is besides black the most important, after which comes red, after which comes yellow.
Epson has a line that pretty much solves this. they call it the "Eco tank series" no cartridge's only refillable tanks. And before anyone says it the ink is dirt cheap. You can get the individual colors in 3.7oz bottles off of amazon for around $6-$7, or the whole pack for between $12-$18. I remember one time paying $30 for just a single black HP cartridge.
i have a epson stylus nx430 and the lady gave me it but it needs ink. Im gonna use it for making ebay shipping labels. but does any of you know a good place to find it cheap? this stuff is expensive wow. can i do anything to stop it from not printing if color is out? i only need black
a friend of mine has a shitty $30 printer and when it runs out of ink he just buys a new printer because it's cheaper to buy a whole new printer with ink already in it than just buying the ink.
They got around that now. The new printer you buy comes with an ink cartridge that's filled about 25% - 50% depending on the brand. So it's technically cheaper to buy ink in terms of how many pages you can print.
I bought a printer brand new to print paperwork. It worked one time, then the printer refused to connect to my computer. After 4 hours of troubleshooting, going through every forum I could find on the printer and deleting and reinstalling the software over and over again, I ended up putting my foot through the thing making the photocopier glass explode. It was so satisfying. Now I just print what I need at work.
I noticed looking for a new printer the other day there are some that don't use cartridges, just liquid ink but the printer itself is 2 to 4 times more expensive. I just usually refill the cartridges myself. It can be a little messy but I don't need a second "ink budget" job anymore
Yes, interestingly enough, I generally ignore those low ink reminders as well. I have to print something that has those white lines, etc., before I'll get more black ink... Good LORD... 😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡👍👍👍👍👍
BenjaminGessel Yeah but the are talking about printers who claim to be empty when they’re not and don’t print anymore because of that. Have you not seen the video? It’s not about low ink but supposed empty cartridges
@@tsfbaf303 Yes I saw the video. I'm just stating how my Hewlett Packard wireless printer operates. It says "low ink" for a while, until it finally says, "No way, Jose". Thing is, yeah, I've often sensed that there is still some ink left in the cartridge at that point. I mean, if there was literally NO ink, nothing would show up when you try to print, right? But that cyan mixing with the black a bit, just getting new color cartridges in general when you rarely print anything if ever in color, THAT is the real scam. But yeah, I mean, if your printer actually forces you to get a new print cartridge when it's still 50% full/will not budge, that's NOT COOL. But yeah, my printer isn't quite that extreme (to the best of my knowledge).
@@BenjaminGessel i accidentally bought ink refill kit instead of cartridge online for my wireless canon and thought they cheated with false advertising, turns out it works very well. just open the cartridge and inject the ink provided with the cyringe with the pack. The only problem was i had to tape it once its seal is broken still shows low ink message but works fine. That when i realised the scam like this dude in video if only they made cartridges which can open like phone its easy and cheap. SCAM INDEED
Being someone who works at staples, I can confirm that printers and ink are bullshit. we charge a ridiculous amount of money for products that often malfunction and ink cartridges (even xl) usually have barely any capacity.
You can buy 'package damaged' name brand ink cartridges online. The cardboard packaging is slightly damaged so they can't charge full price for them, which...who cares. As long as the cartridge works, that's all that matters.
This video is why the printer I bought for our house has been one with refillable ink tanks. They cost more upfront but the refillable bottles last for thousands of pages so you never have to think about refilling the tank for years at a time.
I refilled my cartridges for yrs with both Canon and 2 HP printers. I could order enough ink for less than $20 to ferill all my cartridges for up to a yr. Then I guess the printer mnfg saw their ink sales dropping, so they developed a cute way to stop ppl from taking the less expensive way out. About 5 yrs ago, the mnfgers started putting chips on cartridges so that you couldn't 'refill/reuse a previousy used cartridge. Those printer updates that you are asked to accept for your printer are actually installed so that the mnfg can tell if you are reusing a cartridge, and they can disable all fnct of your printer until you buy their brand of ink! Eventhough HP was sued for this trick, but even a lawsuit didn't stop them nor other printer mnfgers from doing the same thing. I inherited a Brother multi-fctn machine from my parents and now I have the same problem with it. IT accepted cartridges from noname ink companies for awhile, now I keep getting msgs that the printer is out of ink, even when the cartridges are brand new! p.s. Also it' became nearly impossible to find a company that sells the ink refill kits about 2 yrs ago. I hate capitalism!!!!!!!
I have an HP printer, and everytime my cartridge goes empty i refill it by locally bought ink bottle which cost like 1$ for 100ml ink. You need a syringe with a needle to refill the cartridge from the tiny hole present under a sticker on the cartridge. You can refill cartridge infinitely. It's a common thing here in India :)
@@ir7412 well it has worked well for me, i only replace cartridge when the tip of cartridge gets damaged after extreme usage (continuous brushing on the pages). Other than that, i've never replaced my cartridges.
I used to be able to do that. Then they changed the printer's firmware so that it only accepts NEW cartridges. Weird. I thought we were SUPPOSED to recycle things.
With certain printers, it doesn't work. I had an old one that I just inject with ink and it worked for years but I forgot what model it was. I also had a Lexmark printer before that. It saved my poor college ass a decade or so ago. My mom has a newer one and besides buying a new cartridge, she brought the old one to show to a printer refill station that also sells ink refills. He refilled the old one and mom paid a bit more (🙄). Refilled cartridge never worked anymore. Fuck newer printers. Glad they now have ones with refillable tanks and you can buy locally manufactured compatible inks but people have been fucking hoarding and reselling the printer.
It should be illegal to have such high profit margins. Businesses do anything to make money. It doesn't matter if people die as long as it generates revenue. One must always assume that the company is trying to deceive.
@@electronresonator8882 try to imagine your back is the one the money is being made from, you wont see a cent, your back will kill you from all the hard work and them ppl be laughing at you for having worked so hard. Imagine.
@@DG-AI777 because there isn't a better cheaper option. There is no right to force companies to lower their profit margins. People seem to be plenty happy with what is on the market as I don't see other companies lining up to jump into the market. Seems like they know something Austin doesn't. >.>
I used a Brother Business Ink-Jet which worked for 2.5 years and worked well on cheap ink. The it broke (the nozzles could not be cleaned anymore). So I bought an Xerox WorkCentre 6515 DNI, a laserprinter. Not only does it have the same cartridges since I bought it (did not print too much), it also was dirt-cheap on eBay. And besides, the Xerox guy from my office gave me 4 replacement-catridges for free. Actually I expect this thing to be with me for the next decade!
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I got a low ink warning once; I was able to print 70 more pages.
Very early inkjet were made more honestly, the "low ink warning" really were because the sensor fail to detect acceptable level of ink remaining... however that no longer the case with more modern inkjet.
With modern inkjet the chip in the cartridge would simply count how many the ink has been sprayed, and after the counter reach certain threshold it would always gives the "low ink warning" regardless of actual level of ink that are still available in cartridge.
So even you managed to re-fill the cartridge the bogus "low ink warning" would persist.
Nothing wrong with that. It’s the same as your car fuel gauge, you can still go for 50 or so miles
@@samm4192 Yes but when I refill my tank the gas left stays in; when I replace my ink cartridges I don't get to keep what's left. Meanwhile, I had to hover over the printer because after every page it stopped to warn me I was low on ink and ask if I want to continue, and I'd get a pop-up message to order more. So I couldn't just let it do a print job and go about other things, I had to stand there manning every print job. I think they waste our time like that to get us to change them prematurely.
My printer is on 0% for the last 200 pages and still going ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
just buy ink off of aliexpress
so this is why public schools are always stripped for cash
Gavin Hardison XD so true
My school makes us pay $2 for "print cards" because ink is so expensive
Send hateful tweets to HP it will get on their radar
Monochrome laser printers are the preferred choice for most teachers and schools. So, no. This is not why.
Gavin Hardison not really at my school we only pay 2p for every document printed even if it's in colour
Recently Canon has started selling cartilages without the chips due to chip shortages and now they are telling their customers how to bypass the printers built in ink recognition systems
and how you do it?
@@hdj81Vlimited this only affects office laser printers
good
@@nikkopt .-. bruh
I saw how to reset the ink level chip for my printer
I just can't comprehend how such a wasteful environment-molesting industry has flown under the radar for so many years. You simply breathe in the direction of a color inkjet printer and it throws a message to replace the ink cartridges. Moving to laser printers with toner solves a lot of the breakdown headaches, but the toner cartridges are still supremely expensive and wasteful when discarded. I'm not a tree-hugger by any stretch but the printer industry really doesn't give a shit about the planet at all.
They should be banned from every country and see how they like it
Third party toner cartridges can work just fine. I just recently bought some and they were about 85% less than what the "official" cartridges cost. It isn't a foreign cheap knock-off either. The company is based out of California. I was amazed a company like this even existed.
the solution is to buy good quality remanufactured cartridges (be careful who packages Chinese clone cartridges as remanufactured) make sure you buy local remanufactured product, once checked it is easy to check
tank printers tend to also be better, mai b ly because companies havent figured out how to drm the ink
My friend, that's not true, here in Spain I'm buying XL toner cartridges for my Brother MFC-L2700DW at 9,20€, the original Brother MFC-L2700DW toner cartridge costs over 48€ and it's not XL (official one can print over 2600 pages, XL one can print 5200 pages). Original Brother DR2300 drum lets you to print over 12.000 pages and costs over 85€, the one I bought, lets you to print 12.000 pages too, but it costs 11,20€. Ok, but... What about quality? If you find a good dealer, you have nothing to fear, my toner cartridge is a premium one, from a third party company which is always looking for good toner supplier (I mean good quality at an affordable price). So the trick is not buying the first cartridge but doing a good research work with Google, comparing quality and prices, it's not easy, but if you do it, you'll finally discover a good dealer, with quality products, at a very affordable prices.
Apple: those suckers buy a new phone every year
Printers: hold my ink cartridges
Dollar shave club: “Conformist scum”
It would make more sense if a company like Samsung was in there instead of Apple but okay.
@@vitotheo ios updates to fit with newer phones, samsung doesnt do that
@@vitotheo fucking sheep
@@vitotheo apple literally kills their old phones
HPs business model: create a problem
sell the solution
The ZIOMAFIA TERRORIST OLIGARCHY biz model with everything & the ENSLAVED sheeples allowing them via IGNORANCE & apathy
randy johnson
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yep and it is about a scombag a move as maging gas grindu in ordet to sell time savers/xp boosts etc
I think you mean: sell the problem at a small price
Sell the solution at barely affordable price
i like chesse dipped in feet
For years I've wondered why my Epson printer would run out of cyan or magenta when I print 99.9% black. Now I know. Thanks Austin. Oh, and I no longer have a printer and don't print anything anymore, except for my yearly auto registration, which I have printed at on office supply store for $2.
I've given up on printers too... haven't needed one for a while, really. I mean... not regularly.
I have a Cannon which I loved... it lasted quite a while. I think it looks like a Stormtrooper. White on the outside, black on the inside, and has nice curved corners.
It worked fine for several years then randomly broke. I don't know what the problem was. Now, I can't even get it to talk to my computer. Even when it is hardwired.
I print things for 10c at the library, or longer documents at my parents'. And really haven't needed anything printed in a while. I liked that it was wireless and had the scanner. I do have a simple flatbed scanner... it isn't wireless... but it also never breaks. Lol
And then I had a 2nd printer I'd gotten for the brief time I had an office... I got it used from someone else for like $25. It has mainly sat around in my possession. So, when my Stormtrooper died, I thought, well, I have a 2nd... let me pull that out. But, alas... it also has decided it doesn't want to work either. So, now I have 2 broken printers.
I'd tried to get the Stormtrooper fixed... but of course, everyone told me to just get a new one. 🤷🏻♀️ The stupidest industry...
This is why I use a purely black-ink laserjet printer. Even then, I rarely print physical copies of stuff and usually just when the document's a few pages long. Othwerwise, digital all the way.
Just for the laser printers so that you don't have to worry about different inks. There's just one color and it doesn't "dry up" unlike the tip inkjet printers do.
tip: use laserprinters, they need toner instead, which is 50-90 bucks at brother or you can use epson ecotank printers which let you refill giant tanks of ink and the printers come with a whole load of ink
I've been working in an electronics repair shop for the last 8 years. Over this amount of time, inkjet printers have become the worst thing I've ever had to work on. Pretty quickly into my repair career I made the choice to stop working on them all together. Every single one of them is a complete nightmare to disassemble. And even if you are able to find the fault, chances are the only way to get a replacement part is to pull it from _another_ identical printer.
Laser printers on the other hand? Absolute dreams. Some of them are more difficult to take apart than others, and there is something to be said about the whole DRM on toner cartridges thing...but the nice thing about laser printers is they are _designed_ to be repaired. At least in my experience. Getting black lines while printing? There is probably some paper stuck to the fuser, or the fuser is dirty and needs to be cleaned. Paper getting stuck? It's probably the duplexer or the fuser. Not printing at all, just sending paper through? You guessed it, it's probably the fuser!
You know what's nice about most problems being the fuser? _THEY CAN EASILY BE REPLACED._ In every laser printer I've serviced, the fuser is contained in one easily removable module that can typically be purchased for anywhere from $30 to $100. Depends entirely on the model...but considering most fancy laser printers are anywhere from a few hundred to upwards of $1k, that's a price well worth paying to get it working again.
The other nice thing about laser printers? They have less issues overall. If you don't use an inkjet printer for 6 months, there is a very high chance it will just suck at printing when you end up using it. The ink gets all nasty, the print head gets all dirty, and you'll probably just have to buy a new printer. I have seen this happen so often that I'm convinced it is by design. Laser printers don't do this. That toner can sit in the cartridge for a year, you can never use the thing that whole time. And then when you go to use it, it just frickin prints. _AT WORST_ you might have to take the cartridge out and shake it a bit. But that's it.
I think what surprises me the most about inkjet printers is, the technology behind how they work is actually incredible. Considering how precise all of it has to be, I'm amazed that they even work to begin with. They really are fascinating pieces of technology. But they all SUCK because of greed. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Thanks, I am planning to buy a inkjet printer even though I have a brother laser printer, hoping that the inkjet printer would be less complicated and cheaper than the laser printer. Now I know I'm wrong because of your knowledgable comment. Thanks again from Myanmar
do laser printers not have the same issues?
Wait, what about those Epson L3110 models?
Like, they got replaceable waste ink cartridge as well as modularity it got?
Hmm ... it may be the fuser? Own a HP Laser IIIp, which I worked to death and I refuse to let it rest in peace. Such a great printer. Have changed some parts and still not working, but I'm gonna go back to it. There was a company where they used to refill the cartridge - now they sell the toner for refills. Also have a Canon BJC-85 bubble jet - refilled the cartridges with no problems whatsoever. Now got this Canon TS3522, black ink printing blank pages - you're right, if not used, the ink dries up and clogs. Opened the cartridge with a blade, removed the sponge, soaked the head in water, rising often until water came clear and voila! It's working and the blinking light is off.
Anyway, not just printers but all kinds of electronics, televisions, etc., that end up at the man-made thrash islands in the Pacific that can be seen from space. We are at the point of no return.
I had used the same HP printer 1010 Laserjet from 4th grade to my graduation using the same toner cartridge.
Now if anyone asks me what printer to buy I just say any cheap laserjet from any reputable. company.
But I am tempted by the new ecotank models of printer.
"Ink Cartridges Are a Scam"
"Unnamed computer company's laptop division."
HP
Ahahaha you are SOOO right, I am honestly getting rid of my HP junk piece of crap, gonna buy either a laser printer or one of those new Epsons that have cheap ink and no cartridge.
@@sergiofreitas9368 HP's cheap inkjet printers are garbage. I tend to go with Brother but literally anyone (especially Epson) is better than HP in that space.
HP makes printers that report there is no ink despite there being ink, or print head failures a mere year after purchase, and every year they release a new model slightly different from the old one but still incompatible...
Absolutely right, today I came home with a Epson ET-2750, even though I only used it for like 1 hour now, I can immediately feel the difference, it doesn't feel as flimsy, better UI, more features, the WiFi connection paired instantly, it reckognized all of my devices instantly without messing with shitty driver CD's, and most importantly, it has none of these overpriced cartridges, I will let you know how it holds up in the future.
my mom actually has/had a not too bad HP printer (OfficeJet 5605). We got a new Epson printer for new features and ink that won't cost you 60 bucks. per. cartridge..
Fuck HP!
watching this on my HP printer
You poor soul...
LMAO
Just casually print out every frame of the video
Really? lol , you sitting on your HP printer, whilst watching the video?
Ron Dijcks uhh, r/wooooosh?
That moment when 3D printers are easier to setup and use than a normal printer.
set up*
@@EyeOhNine It's not "a missing space." It's a totally different part of speech and the meanings are very different conceptually. A setup is a noun. "Set up" is a verb phrase. I wish I were surprised you needed an explanation.
Hopefully you're still in school.
@@encycl07pedia-Buddy, I’m a grammar Nazi too, but this one wasn’t that big of a deal. It WAS just a missing space, seeing there was no loss of communication. Calm down and touch some grass.
@@Belak-gq3wt lol. No, you're not. Read a book, kid.
@@Belak-gq3wtMan, this is the first time I see a grammar nazi roasts another grammar nazi. Your kind is weird.
One thing you missed is that if you try to save your ink and use it sparingly it either dries out or the printer automatically and routinely uses some ink to run a jet cleaning cycle.
I’d like to print this document
*yup*
It’s in black and white
*yup*
And since it’s in black and white, you don’t need colors to print it
*That makes sense to me*
Then print it
*Need magenta ink*
*prints a colorful page with big letters: I'm out of ink!"
Exactly!
big oof?
Don't know about magenta, but most printers also print yellow microdots called the Machine Identification Code on every single paper they make, they identify the device that printed the document and can give clues as to who printed it. It's been a thing since the mid-80's and people only learned about it in 2004. You'd need special equipment to see them clearly, and even if you do, you'd need to know how to decode them to get any information out of them.
Like I said, they ARE yellow, and are printed on EVERY paper, even if in black and white. They're small but they're printed several times (in case the printing process makes them unreadable) all over the paper on EVERY paper, so that adds up over time.
is this the joey-phoebe meme
Printer with ink:$50
Printer ink:$69.99
I'll just buy a printer every time I actually run out of ink
@@HugoVacacionesBailes welp I have no choice printing my bee movie script copy
@@keys8966 that script deserves to be printed in color
looks like HP likes e-waste
@Noah the Bloody Legend number 2 r/ihavereddit
I have done this, & I sell my previous printers for half of what I paid for them depending on how old the model is
I was about to buy more ink for my printer, I thought this video was gonna tell me a nifty trick to fix my old low ink cartridges... surprised that it didn't but ngl seeing the printer being bashed by a sledgehammer was 1000% worth it
I did that to my first printer bought 10yrs ago. After one year of almost no use tells me no ink when the cartridge is 90% full. I took it out saw a microchip and sorta figured out what was going on. Threw that thing down and based it into pieces. Never bought another printer since. I just go to my work office to print anything.
Printer ink 100% is a scam. My printer keeps telling me its expired ink but I take the ink cartridge out without rotating it and somehow the ink spills everywhere. It got all over my hands and the floor and permanently stained them, I tried different soaps and it won't come off. I don't understand how anybody is supposed to remove the ink cartridge without ink going everywhere, I literally just removed it normally without rotating. So not only does the ink seem like perfectly fine, they are probably wankers that find it amusing not only to scam people by making them buy more ink, but also when you go to replace the ink, they probably find it amusing how it will spill everywhere when you try to pull it out without rotating it.
I slammed mine. After reading this comment, I’m happy I wasn’t the only one.
He did tell you at the beginning that he prefers laser printers.
Me and my brother managed to convince my mom that a $300 ink tank printer will worth more than a $50 cartridge printer and its $50 cartridge. In a month, we used up enough ink that would've cost $500 in cartridges, with only $10 in bulk ink.
I also invested in a HP tank printer, i print sooo many stuff and in one month of extensive use the level only dropped less than 1/4th from full.
Same here. Got a 350 dollar tank printer after deciding 75 dollars for a complete set of ink on our crappy old printer was just unacceptable. The new one has no cartridges, just ink bottles. There's no way to put in a chip to require their branded ink. Very happy with it.
I have an Epson ecotank and it has absolutely paid for itself in terms of savings on ink cartridges!
where do i find tank printer
Fun fact: many consumer printers have a print limit. After something like 100,000 pages it will say “I’m broken!” And stop working.
I know because my dad printed postcards out for his business and hit this limit multiple times. He had a little piece of code that reset it and magically the printer was no longer broken...
Proof, please. More than "I swear it's true, guys!"
@@Helladamnleet I swear it's true, guys!
@@Helladamnleet you don't believe him? after how much they mark up the ink?
@@Helladamnleet It doesn't take any longer than 30 seconds of googling, numbnut :P Anyway, the comment is a bit misleading because some printers do indeed stop working after a predetermined number of pages have been printed but it doesn't say "I'm broken" it just advises the user to take it to maintenance which is understandable because the limit only kicks in after hundreds and thousands of pages. It can be easily reset using some special software.
@@Helladamnleet The ultimate proof is the printer itself. open it and count integrated circuits on all PCBs. even jet head has one. Think why are it so many. I say - one of it count amount of printed sheets. after fixed number the printer start make something to demonstrate "buy next printer. i will die soon"
Just buy a Chinese sweatshop worker for super cheap and make them write all of your documents for you instead of printing them
the only problem is that you will need to feed it overpriced squid food
I know you’re joking but, where do you buy a squid?
this has such a visceral image of some guy needing ink and slapping a squid to print his copies
Noob. Everyone knows octopus ink is much better at retaining color after 100 years a document is printed plus it comes with a 2x capacity.
Fucking cruel lol I don't mind killing to eat it but to have it as a ink pet lol nope
I just wanted to say this was the first video I found on your channel a while back and I've been a fan ever since. So I always knew printers and ink prices were a huge scam, but this video really shocked me. Not just the retail vs manufacturing price but the way the company will give software updates to further scam you and intentionally waste a good portion of ink and cause the printer to have problems. I've showed this to plenty of people ever since.
As a toner cartridge seller, I agree it's a big scam.
I'm pretty sure that if we storm Area 51, we'll find it's simply an ink cartridge manufacturing plant.
Hooked On Chronics They won’t die. Look at the TH-cam channel “Explore with us”. Specifically the “what they aren’t telling you” video. The worst that will happen is a few people will go to jail. Unless someone tries to assault a police officer or something.
@Hooked On Chronics people aren't going to actually do it, if you seriously think they will you're the dumbass
@@Aurelius_unofficial If you think that at least a hundredth of the people who pledged wouldn't go. Well I think you'd know
@@alephkasai9384 okay Boomer
@@Aurelius_unofficial When is that happening again
*Description:* "Join me in starting the revolution"
*3 years later:* Ain't nobody done shit
What's supposed to be done? Everybody already hates printers so spreading the word won't do much.
@@gregorkorosec6131 Kinda makes the video pointless though, don't you think?
@@z-beeblebrox the fact we have to pay the price of the printer just for the printer to operate then twice the price of the printer for a new printer when it breaks down and twice the price of that printer for ink kinda makes it a pain in the ass
Eh we got more important things to do...Like umm....
@@Orincaby Just buy a new printer instead of new ink. They lose money on each printer sold, then they might change!
OP: We’re gonna do something about it!!!
Also OP: *Does nothing*
Thanks to all the Indian and Russian TH-cam channels that helped me repair my printer, I've been using the same one for about 6 years and the only problems I have are with dry ink on the tubes when I don't use it for a long time, which is something I don't blame on the company that much.
Pay the little extra for a printer with ink tanks, it is worth it and don't be afraid to Google how to repair stuff.
You are welcome 🙂
This makes me wanna go out there and start a printer company that isn't corrupt
It would have to be non-profit.
There were a lot of those ink refill shops a decade ago where they would charge a lower price to refill your existing ink cartridge. a lot of them shut down
You'd go out of business. It's just not profitable, hence why they have to result to this kind of business practice.
they all got the patents between themselves
Stop using printers use computers but no very old people say that it's bad but they're like on candy crush level 5956
here in Brasil there is a whole underground market for modding printers with refillable cartidges and selling ink in bulk
"you're going to Brazil." sure, their ink cartridge market is cool.
Honestly, that’s pretty cool.
Man, that's awesome. We also did that in Indonesia
@@Easterlingofrhun Where is that and how do it I need to know I live in that country to
@@TheManiac-nw8ru there are some in Jakarta. Some cartridge printers are also modified
Btw, this should be done with all our technological products, like when you have to get rid of a good cell phone just because there's no more updates on the software and even on the apps, or as like happened here, they start being incompatible 😩
I completely believed after he said "today I am doing something about it" he was going to say he was making his own printer without the scam ink cartridges lmao
same, I was all excited about learning how to make your own printer ink or something. Instead he went all office space on his mom's printer. I hope he bought her a new one after that :D
The worst shit I've seen is with the Canon Pixma MG3510:
"Unknown error. You cannot scan documents."
"Wait wait wait. What? But why?"
"No ink".
LOL
Hahaha.... that printer is dumb.
_"I can't hear you, it's too dark in here!"_
The whole "Pixma" series of printers are an absolute joke. They are made so that they arrive broken. Wifi models don't work on wifi and require special knowledge to activate. The software only works for 7 up to 14 days and then it asks for money just to be able to print. IF you try using another software the drivers make your life a living hell giving you wrong aspect ratios and various wrong sizes. Yeah it costs 20 pounds for the whole printer. But the headache that comes with it is not worth it. Especially after 100 pages when the printer says you need new ink cartridges. Pixma models are a joke. Do not buy.
No no.. Enter Samsung c410w ! Lazer printers are scams too and even worse. Simply moving them around kills them. I wish there were a DIY printer kit somewhere. A printer built around simplicity (open source?).
Whenever my dad runs out of ink he just buys a new printer
A new printer is less than ink.
800624 eXACTLY
LMAO
Me too
Majority of manufacturers will only put a fraction of the amount of ink included in the box as compared to a new cartridge. This is just wasteful of resources.
A very entertaining video! You managed to bring the forefront, what I think a lot of us suspected for a long time. I appreciate that!
That's a good solid well made bench and well bolted to the wall you have there! Thanks for the great and enlightening video. I was already aware about the ink cartridges being the part that pays for the printer, but the extent with the rest of it..... that was an eye opener.
This video really makes me want to start an affordable printer company and make millions lol
Overpriced everything with just one dollar. You know, so you actually earn something.
I'm in, I'll market that
Same idea from me lol
Printers are affordable. They are cheaper than replacement ink cartridges. That's why I always just buy a new printer when I run out of ink.
I'm going to go a different path next time by buying a tank printer. Either that or a printer with a continuous ink supply system.
disabling entire printer because of unpaired ink? what is this, *apple?*
ReKt SoN I don’t think you know much about tech.
@I’m boutta E well you see, apple wants to make their devices irrepearable, for example apple has paired each devices home button to the device itself. so lets say you wanted to replace the home button by a third party alternative, without the help from apple. the device would not turn on as a result of the unpaired home button, rendering the device completely useless. unless the home button was repaired by apple themselves, which if it wasnt obvious enough, would cost more money and more effort, because they would replace the entire display instead of just the home button. luckily apple did get sued for this and has allowed third party home button replacements without the device not turning on
@@ReKtSoN Welp, now they're casually selling monitor stands for $999 xD
@@imbouttae1869 I don’t think you know much about tech, you sheep.
グェンジェシカ nigga my iphone work fine even when smthn gets broke
I agree with you! I stopped buying ink and took it to Costco to refill in the past, but they got rid of it. Guessing the printer company was upset about that...
Proprietary software for "effortless conection" is also why it's difficult as hell to keep a printer actially working. Honestly, anti-trust laws need to be expanded so companies release schematics and shit so they stop getting away with this.
They never saw that coming: a clerk from the call center eventually becoming a famous youtuber to expose their business strategy and start a revolution.
MHMM
maybe he only remember it now after doing the stuff with his mom
oh yeah boys watch the fucking revolution kick off from a youtube video. remember how that went last time
Expose things adult people raged over in the 90's? Just ask your parents fgs!
@@kyirid bingo bango bongo bish bash bosh m8
HP ceo : Joe many employees do we have?
Joe: 11k , why?
HP ceo: Aight let's dislike this video
Hey it’s the funny computer meme guy
Bob?
xD
LMAO
Who’s Joe
I'm absolutely serious when I say that this has inspired me to destroy some cheap printer with a crowbar, mallet, and various other objects.
Highly recommend! It's a lot of fun. :)
I had only one inkjet printer back in the 90's for occasional printing. The Ink cartridges would always dry out and you would have to buy new ones. I went with laser and never looked back. I made my parents get a laser printer as well. Their's is still going 20+ years later with only having to replace toner every now and then and at some point I replaced rollers. I have a laserjet that we've had years as well. It just works. I steer anyone away from inkjets as they are nothing but a money pit.
When the ink “runs out” my mom just gives away the printer and buys a cheap one for $30 at Walmart. I used to think she was nuts until she showed me the ink prices 🤷♀️
Stefania Rivers That’s the same thing my parents do too
😂Literally just bought, $40 printer(with ink in it) because it cost like $60 to buy more damn ink for my old one. Method 2. Keep exchanging the "new" printer 3 days later when it runs out.. When the clerk asks why, simply recite one of the thousand b.s. fault codes that "sound real technical" as a reason. Ya know, use the printer companies tactics against them....Oh gee, my printers pairing ability is incompatable with my wi fi decryption..oh and by the way the quantum dual flux compasiter overheats in hyperdrive😄😉
Wtf thats a fucking intellectual move
@@hellseeker-inc9756 So now new printers come with half filled ink cartridges that run out faster!
Someone on Reddit said that a new printer is cheaper than a new cartridges
when 3d printing is cheaper by both the printer price and the filament price.... smh im just gonna print my documents in plastic now
yeah it will last longer too
This is not what they meant by laminating documents
@@pauldeddens5349 why not laminate too? it keeps the plastic ink on the page for longer and if you have a white board marker you can doodle on the page and clean it after and do it all again!
You could also mod your printer with a sharpie or pen and use it as a plotter lol
@@nicholashaefeli8154 Don't tell HP
For many years, when I ran out of printer ink, I'd just go buy a new printer because the cost was cheaper than replacing the ink.
Then I noticed the newer printers started having those features that would make them unusable well before you actually ran out of ink (old ones would actually do what they could and mix different colors - if you told them to - to achieve the best results when certain cartridges ran out). On top of that, the printers began coming with "starter cartridges" that could only print a few pages before the printer shut down.
Once this happened, I ditched ink jet printers. I dug out an old one I had where the scanner works even without ink (yes, the new ones disable the _scanner_ if the ink runs out), and bought myself a laser printer. I use these two devices in tandem and have now gone years without having to replenish my printer (plus the laser printer is faster and never _ever_ has any issues when trying to print).
I have no idea why these companies think they can get us to buy new ink cartridges for the *scanner* when PDF scan apps exist.
I went with a Brother laser printer 10 years ago, still going strong.
We could start a black market for ink cartridges that are sold at reasonable prices that have chips that tell you when your actually out of ink
The evilest thing
@ANIYAHlove1
I’m down.
@@Just-Kamal tHaTs rAcIsT
@@lobbi5105 Or iS iT
*You're*
You can now buy an Eco Tank printer from Epson that is built with refillable reservoirs for ink. The printer costs $200 and the ink is very cheap. This is the way it should have been sold from day one.
Emanuel Tavano received mine today, 2 of each bottle in the box and it works flawlessly. Hope the components can last at least ten years. But I agree, this is how it should be and I think this kind of printers will be the future. Plastic is not so popular now and peop,e are getting more aware of the this kind of rip-off with cartridges.
yeah epson was not one of them... i trust epson... you can refill it by your self and very cheap and easy... and its soooooooo loooooong before the ink drain....
Unless you're printing photos it's almost always better to just get a cheaper color laser printer. Epson is making good printers these days...avoid HP like the plague. I have worked on printers for many years and every time I have to touch a newer HP I cringe.
wow, i'm going to check this out FOR SURE! Thanks!
I saw this at Best Buy. As a person who used to work on printers, I would highly suggest this printer.
I think we are all running into that problem. Thank you for making this video. I was about to buy a printer, and the ink price is almost the same as the printer by the time I buy the replacement ink, I am not sure if they give you the first set of ink, but Epson and Canon are expensive. I just say forget it.
As a sellsman/technician I wouldn't waste my precious time trying to fix these awful printers and tell them to use the tech support cost on just buying a new printer, fixed the issue 99% of the time. Also I would point customers over towards which printers that I had learned had a full cartridge of ink instead of test cartridges with 10-20 sheets they put in the box, often times these printers would be on sale for 40-50 bucks making a new printer, cables, paper and ink cartridges LESS expensive than just buying the ink
Me: buys new Printer and wants to print something
Printer: low ink.
Me: i havent even used you yet.
Printer: now im broken
😂😂😂
Buy your new printer today much better than those old outdated models
You aren’t even joking lmao
The pawn stars meme comes to mind
@@eligos5271 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 perfect
So it’s a scam. . . And you have no way out. Wonderful
eBay lul
from where i come from you can actually just buy the ink and refill it yourself, idk but they just put weird cables in the modded printer and just buy the ink. That is the way out.
legit just buy non OEM ink cartridges, I mean like $5 bucks boom, been buying like that for years no problem.
AKA a monopoly.
I mean if we put our foot down we can create a way out.
Back in 2008, my first printer was a Lexmark. Poor thing, it worked beautifully, I filled up those cartridges (with a syringe) lots of times, still worked. It only stopped working when I accidentally broke a plastic bit that was holding the cartridge in place. But it still worked if I tied the cartridge with a bit of wire.
But... I decided to buy a Canon. It was horrible. Every now and then I would get E5 error message (problem with ink) and after I spent twice the price of the printer on cartridges, I swore I'd never buy a Canon again.
I currently have a HP laser printer.
What I hate most about gadgets in general is that the more "technologically smart" they become, the more they are likely to be programmed not to work anymore, so that you have to replace them.
Never under any circumstance by HP product. They are a scam company.
Im angry at a liquid rn
Lyte
I like ink.
Lyte
Let’s start a riot
The liquid isn't the problem, it's the price gouging on behalf of corporations
ayyyy xD swedish
Lyte I'm surprised not a lot of people have seen this, neither has anyone opposed to this.
me: ok finally i have time to print this document
printer: wait but first i need cyan ink :)
me: don't worry i dont need to use cyan
printer: *d i d i s t u t t e r*
I know. This is so annoying.
All I needed was to use the scanner. "Feed me, feed me! Can't scan without ink!" I tossed the thing out and got a Bother laser printer. It's less worse.
Ahahahah funny man is here
Let us all laugh
500th like
Yes it did stutter, WITH FIVE WHITE LINES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PAGE
Thanks, I'm going through this right now. Had a Brother printer for years and after it broke I've had nothing but grief fron Cannon and HP.
I needed my own printer to scan and print whenever without interrupting my dad who is like a power printer. Got a very cheap Epson Ecotank 2400 (lowest model) on amazon and it came with 4 bottles of ink that you use to fill the corresponding reservoirs. Each bottle is like 80 or so cartridges worth and can last 2 years depending on print schedules. All we paid was $170
i am an IT Guy
anytime time i am asked "what printer should i get" my automatic response used to be "b&w laser"
they'd complain "ohhhhh but i want color" then end up buying buy some shity officejet and $200 worth of ink
now I respond by simply emailing them a link to this video. end of discussion.
bless u, brother
b&w laser, until i did this I never realised just how amazing and cheap to use they are.
Still have a Laserjet 2100M (52,50 euro for one high capacity toner cardridge capable of printing 7750 pages) here with JetDirect card plus a Color Laserjet CP1515N for any color work.
The 2100M is a printer from 1999 and it still works flawlessly, and initially did work until 2005 as an office printer of the local university until they switched to Xerox. The running costs for home use are seriously low with laserprinters, especially if you only print incidentally.
Where liquid ink might dry up and clog the print head of a inkjet printer, toner is dry ink powder with dried resin (which melts and sticks to the paper by laser) . So it can't clog anything up.
So yeah, any IT guy with some sense knows what to get. Definitely! So does this IT guy here. 👍
What's wrong with a color laser? They aren't all that expensive anymore.
@@The77Game They could still mix in cyan. Also the black cardridge in a color printer is a lot smaller... 1200 to 1500 pages as opposed to 7750 pages.
Since most documents are black and white anyway, it is thus still much cheaper to go with a B&W printer but it depends on the user's needs of course.
@@LogiForce86 A couple of things. 1) They COULD mix in cyan but DO they? If we don't know then there is no reason to mention it as a reason not to get it. 2) As you mention, you were able to get a toner cartridge with a lot of pages capacity but the typical b&w printers i just checked a few of are only in the 2-3000 page capacity. My parents color laser gets a 2000 page black cartridge(it doesn't run out of cyan any faster than the other colors by the way) 3) The biggest point i would make to the OP is that if someone asks me about what printer to get and they mention they want color then there is no point in telling them to get a b&w printer. The color versions are very affordable now. If they want color, get a color laser printer. I have told people that for many years now. Especially if you sometimes don't print anything for a couple of months. Then the ink printer is done in my experience.
You forgot to mention humanity's most challenging task: *to delete a file from the printer queue.*
YES!!!
cmd => net stop spooler
Delete everything in "C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS"
cmd => net start spooler
@@robinmunkittrick4569 not all heroes wear capes
@@robinmunkittrick4569 the thing is... you need to have admin rights for this. And if it´s your work pc you HAVE to call IT and bother them with this nonsense... I feel sorry for the IT guys :(
My dad tends to print a lot of stuff and the issue is almost never his pc. His printers que thats stored on the printers internal memory usually caps out because it cant remember to clear itself once its been powered off. This is the same issue most dvd/blue ray players now have. And is often the reason your player stops working all together. The system memory is stuffed with old stop data from the last however many movies you watched on it and the player stopped clearing the cache to reset itself. Now the part that pisses me off is this isnt an issue in any other industry of tech. And where it was an issue in the past with early sdram and memory modules. Its been fixed for a very long time now. So the bs excuse of printing technology is expensive is bullshit. The most tech research they do is how to go from design to production with the least amount of issues. The printing tech hasn't changed its still an ink carriage that houses the cartridges that uses mostly the same technology as the first color printers from the late 90s. The worst part about the system not clearing its cache every once in a while to avoid most of the issues people have with printers (aside from clogged heads or bent carriage guide) is a single command line with a time delay. Say every 800- check system, to make sure the system isnt actively printing, if not clear system cache. Timer resets and so on... i remember the first time i watched this video i got pissed for the same reason. Its a single command line that for some reason nobody is using and could save a lot of user frustration. But i think its intentional to get you to buy a new system. They cant sell you new ink if you dont have thier new printer. And if they had that issue fixed with blu ray or dvd players you would likely never need to buy another.
Epson makes printers that you can refill from bottles of ink. You never have to buy cartridges.
Epson with the refillable ink tanks have been a blessing.. you have to print alottt to run outta ink
I’ve also NEVER seen a printer when where you press “STOP PRINT” it actually stops printing... it just prints it off
dpajc056 I KNOW RIGHT
epson rx520 did!
Sledgehammer.
Unplug it lol
dpajc056 mine does
Sounds like a good idea for market disruption. Let's launch a brand that will produce fair printers, with fair ink cartridges.
Theres a brand with ink that lasts almost "forever" and tgeres also a liquid ink printer that is cheaper
@@bigjuicyratgaming7049 but what is the name of the brand?
@@Yah-Izoa-Hakaboth you can search up printer that lasts forever
@@bigjuicyratgaming7049 Okay! Thank you!
it’s probably ridiculously expensive
I recently brought a second hand HP printer. Was only £20 and they said ink was brand new and printer was just unused in the corner for the last year.
I put the ink in took the plastic protectors off and an error came up on the printer.
"Unable to print until printer has been registered on HP instant ink"
So I tried to to register and sort it out, no luck because apparently the ink had been registered with another instant in customer and was unable to be transferred and I'd have to buy new ink and re-register the printer.
HP instant ink is a joke, a subscription fee to use a printer is insane and the fact 10 pages cost £1 is also a joke for a printer that was purchased.
Reminds me of what my Dad did. For some reason, the ink cartridges are more expensive than the actual printers (at least, wherever he was buying from) - so, every time his printer ran out of ink, he'd just buy a new printer, which comes with new ink, and save himself a ton of money lmao
only thing is new ones only have enough ink to print a few pages.
@@stephenhudson4931 they imply that but it's not actually true
"Your script is so good, it deserves to be printed with color"
By any chance, are you a printer 🖨 manufacturer...? 🤔
@@Samathinsath.parami maybe....
"Would you like a deal on a new hp ink jet printer with our all new ink mixture technology to make more crisp colors?"
@@Lawnmower142 😂😂😂😂😂
ha ha ahhahhahhahha
@@Lawnmower142 😂😂😂😂😂👀😃✔pro memer
Here in Russia we use hacked refillable cartriges or attach reservoirs to circumvent this problem. For decades!
One may say we are voiding the warranties.. But what is that warranty if they don't respect it here anyway xD
хули нам, славянам
*russian theme intensifies*
@@dante8885 I honestly don't know the details, all I can say we just use third party refillable cartriges, and the chips in them are made to reset themselves when you refill them
@@EriIaz Thanks. Can you recommend a good seller I can buy a refillable cartridge from?
Shit. You Russians are so advanced. While the rest of us are slaves to coporatocracy, you just go ahead and DIY. Teach me your secret, I want to be free from planned obsolescence.
I had to go check the prices to find out if this was also how things are in India, fortunately they are not, printer are about $150 while ink is $10, guess they realised that Indians will dismantle every part of the damn thing to figure out a cheaper way
Third party ink resellers on Amazon can be pretty good and affordable.
I get a pack of 20 assorted cartridges for like $20, where the equivalent from Canon would cost $320. I'm not printing full page 4k photographs or art so paper and ink quality literally doesn't make a difference.
Looks like EA's tactics have broken outside the gaming industry
False.
EA is printer company tactics breaking into the gaming industry
An EA printer would have You pay a full $60.00 for each sheet printed.
@@rgderen88 Could be!
@@737Garrus 😂
Printing mechanics!
This is the reason why I just don't buy printers anymore, I spend a little money and print at the public library.
Can you print pdf of the phone ?
@@redinstrumental7535 ?
@@redinstrumental7535 ? Can you be a bit clear please, thanks
That’s smart but be sure not to print anything crucial
most shops and libraries tend to close due to covid. i think its time for me to buy one
So relatable. I had an HP printer that was always low on ink, was horrible at printing in color even after print head cleaning, and just was a pain to own. I now have a brother printer that I have had for almost two years. I replaced the ink maybe once and it is pretty reliable. However it still unnecessarily uses color ink.😤
Sometimes I like to come back to this video and watch it again, just to hear you say "mouses". In other news, the laser printer I bought shortly after seeing this video the first time is still working beautifully, printing crisp pages with just the tiny little toner cartridge it came with. Well done, sir.
My printer "ran out of ink" even without me using it for a while.
Same bro
Eiad DS Yea my shit keeps drying up and I have to print 5 test pages and do a lot of shit just to keep it flowing and then it tells me ink is low and I have to replace the ink cartridge. After that I have to printe a bunch of more test pages because one color isn't working. All that shit just so I can copy/Print a b&w document.
some printers turn on automatically to do "nozzle cleans" periodically.... inkjet is just a flawed technology... My laser color printer original carts have lasted 5 years without issues.. only print a few pages / year
I took the cartiges out of mine when I wasn't using it and it still "ran out" of ink.
@@megavidaeos the nozzle on the ink could have just dried up, maybe you need to clean the nozzle with some acetone
Edit: worked for me many times
my dad 0.5 seconds after i print in color:
ARE YA PRINTING IN COLOR SON???
But thats dont matter because if u print black the ink will get empty and u cant use the printer.
If you print black and dont use color but the color is 'empty' you still can't print lol
@@Plaagfluit i just sayed the same thing
Are ya winning son?
Nice meme my friend.
I own a refillable printer, it was an early concept made by my uncle sometime in the late '90s... it is out of date but recently I bought a 3d printer, grabbed some components from an old reliable printer which sadly went out of ink, and seated the PCB in the old concept printer with some 3d printed bits and pieces, then I diluted some ink and filled it... it works just fine!
At the time I've seen your video, it's already over 4 years old - and still incredibly relevant! Man - why do we allow ourselves to be scammed in this way?
It's funny they also want your 'used cartridges' back, probably to refill it from half full and sell it back to you.
That's exactly why they want them back. I worked for office depot for awhile and learned about this shit there.
Actually HP does *exactly* this, and will sometimes offer incentives for you to "Recycle" your old (not completely used) ink cartridges so you can get screwed over again-and again....and again... (you see where this is going? Me too)
Same
You know you can refill your cartridges, just ignore the warnings of low ink
@@roycoto970 Thats what i do. I pay less than a dollar per refill. It's so much cheaper.
"*Printer companies hate this guy!*"
*"Printer companies hate him! CLICK HERE to discover how he saves 200$ a month on printer ink!"*
answer break your printer now you dont need ink XD
Unfortunately, if his campaign to get cheaper ink succeeds, it will blow up in his face, as printer manufacturers will simply stop selling their printers at a loss, and printers will suddenly become hella expensive, all to protect these manufacturers' profits.
yeah me neither
@@denelson83 I would gladly pay more if it didn't break all the time
I am so grateful for this vidoe. I thought I was going crazy. I my cartridges was half in could see and hear the ink in them but my printer said it was empty and so it did not print any more. I eventually gave up and can my printer away. I now print all by document and a copy shop.
@6:40 he makes a great analogy. Having your printer not work even though it STILL has ink, is like your car shutting down, saying your gas tank is empty, even though you have half a tank of gas.
The disappointment when I realized this was posted two years ago AND THIS STILL HAPPENS!!!
You must be so young, lol. This has been true for over 20 years.
Many independent makers sell continuous ink supply systems (CISS) that can be installed on certain printers to get around having to spend $60 on those disgusting ink cartridges. CISS cost slightly more, but you can print MORE pages per refill, and the bottles cost 10x cheaper than cartridges! Think of the savings!
@@MrTheFletch pretty sure it was since the 1940s
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In Mexico they are “ink shops” where you leave your used cartridges and get refilled ones for cheap.
Same, I’m from Chile and in my town they sell you the ink so you can fill it by yourself too ;)
We actually used to have ink refill shops in the US too (about 20 years ago), but for some reason they all went out of business in the mid 2000s. I highly suspect the printer companies were behind it.
@@yozefa so, how much on average would a used, full cartridge cost? Imagine flying down and picking up 1000...and re selling them!!! Hell, at this point the cartridges are drugs.
In Italy ink costs 20-15 €
@@notarobotto That seems much more reasonable. Not great, but better
I’m absolutely fascinated with the lengths they went to scam people. Like, making a product that actually works would be 100 times easier😂
Great video I cannot stop laughing because these are the things I literally have gone through in the past two weeks trying to fix my Epson🤦♂️😂🤣 I wish I would have seen your video earlier💯
I felt so much rage throughout this video... it was satisfying to see him smash the printer :)
what are you gonna do about it
@@alish4n share this video and start a revolution duh.
He shouldve poured red ink on it
Aw fuck spoilers bro goddam
EVERYTHING IS A SCAM!
In 21 years of life I have seen my dad throw at least 7 printers down the stairs, out the door, out the window, at walls
And yenno... I don't blame him
Same. I bought a B&W brother laser a few years ago and it's super solid. Not a single issue, replaced the toner twice.
I had a family member that buys a New printer when the cardrige was empty 🤣
@chiggly 123 i have a canon ,it doesnt work any more.
Beacause Windows 10 dont support him.
Its a.printer that works fine on Windows 8 but 10 doesnt support it.
And i refuse to buy a New one only for that reason
@@stefan-ox8qs best way to do it 😂
@@stefan-ox8qs I've spent 6 month just to install printer on LINUX
My dad used to have a HP printer which determined the emptyness of the cartridges based on the date and time. You could have a brand new cartridge but if it was old then the printer wouldn't let you print. We used to have to roll back the date on the computer to print on that printer. We threw it out and now have an awesome Epson EcoTank
8:12 thats actually exactly how colors work and usually if you professionaly print something you have a mix between cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
Cyan is besides black the most important, after which comes red, after which comes yellow.
Epson has a line that pretty much solves this. they call it the "Eco tank series" no cartridge's only refillable tanks. And before anyone says it the ink is dirt cheap. You can get the individual colors in 3.7oz bottles off of amazon for around $6-$7, or the whole pack for between $12-$18. I remember one time paying $30 for just a single black HP cartridge.
I've had one for years and it has served me well. Saved so much money and doesn't break down every second day
i have a epson stylus nx430 and the lady gave me it but it needs ink. Im gonna use it for making ebay shipping labels. but does any of you know a good place to find it cheap? this stuff is expensive wow. can i do anything to stop it from not printing if color is out? i only need black
@@waragainstmyself1159 Imagine necro'ing a 4 month old comment with your irrelevent tech support questions
@@tobiaswhittaker7462 lol great comment
hmmmm time to combine this printer with other printers that are Amazing with something and make the ultimate printer
a friend of mine has a shitty $30 printer and when it runs out of ink he just buys a new printer because it's cheaper to buy a whole new printer with ink already in it than just buying the ink.
LMAO
They got around that now. The new printer you buy comes with an ink cartridge that's filled about 25% - 50% depending on the brand. So it's technically cheaper to buy ink in terms of how many pages you can print.
Second hand refill shop is the best. The cartridges you get with a new printer are half empty.
Yeah sounds good until you think about the planet...
Imagine all that waste though.
I bought a printer brand new to print paperwork. It worked one time, then the printer refused to connect to my computer. After 4 hours of troubleshooting, going through every forum I could find on the printer and deleting and reinstalling the software over and over again, I ended up putting my foot through the thing making the photocopier glass explode. It was so satisfying.
Now I just print what I need at work.
I noticed looking for a new printer the other day there are some that don't use cartridges, just liquid ink but the printer itself is 2 to 4 times more expensive. I just usually refill the cartridges myself. It can be a little messy but I don't need a second "ink budget" job anymore
Our printer is running on "0%" ink for quite some time already...
Yes, interestingly enough, I generally ignore those low ink reminders as well. I have to print something that has those white lines, etc., before I'll get more black ink...
Good LORD... 😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡👍👍👍👍👍
BenjaminGessel Yeah but the are talking about printers who claim to be empty when they’re not and don’t print anymore because of that. Have you not seen the video? It’s not about low ink but supposed empty cartridges
@@tsfbaf303 Yes I saw the video. I'm just stating how my Hewlett Packard wireless printer operates. It says "low ink" for a while, until it finally says, "No way, Jose". Thing is, yeah, I've often sensed that there is still some ink left in the cartridge at that point. I mean, if there was literally NO ink, nothing would show up when you try to print, right? But that cyan mixing with the black a bit, just getting new color cartridges in general when you rarely print anything if ever in color, THAT is the real scam. But yeah, I mean, if your printer actually forces you to get a new print cartridge when it's still 50% full/will not budge, that's NOT COOL. But yeah, my printer isn't quite that extreme (to the best of my knowledge).
@@BenjaminGessel i accidentally bought ink refill kit instead of cartridge online for my wireless canon and thought they cheated with false advertising, turns out it works very well. just open the cartridge and inject the ink provided with the cyringe with the pack. The only problem was i had to tape it once its seal is broken still shows low ink message but works fine. That when i realised the scam like this dude in video if only they made cartridges which can open like phone its easy and cheap. SCAM INDEED
@@ratheeshr845 I hear you man...
Being someone who works at staples, I can confirm that printers and ink are bullshit. we charge a ridiculous amount of money for products that often malfunction and ink cartridges (even xl) usually have barely any capacity.
offbrand lol
You can buy 'package damaged' name brand ink cartridges online. The cardboard packaging is slightly damaged so they can't charge full price for them, which...who cares. As long as the cartridge works, that's all that matters.
wait CARDBOARD is used for some ink cartridges?!?!??
This video is why the printer I bought for our house has been one with refillable ink tanks. They cost more upfront but the refillable bottles last for thousands of pages so you never have to think about refilling the tank for years at a time.
Wish you shared more info on how people can combat this, such as refilling your own ink cartridges at home
I refilled my cartridges for yrs with both Canon and 2 HP printers. I could order enough ink for less than $20 to ferill all my cartridges for up to a yr. Then I guess the printer mnfg saw their ink sales dropping, so they developed a cute way to stop ppl from taking the less expensive way out. About 5 yrs ago, the mnfgers started putting chips on cartridges so that you couldn't 'refill/reuse a previousy used cartridge. Those printer updates that you are asked to accept for your printer are actually installed so that the mnfg can tell if you are reusing a cartridge, and they can disable all fnct of your printer until you buy their brand of ink! Eventhough HP was sued for this trick, but even a lawsuit didn't stop them nor other printer mnfgers from doing the same thing. I inherited a Brother multi-fctn machine from my parents and now I have the same problem with it. IT accepted cartridges from noname ink companies for awhile, now I keep getting msgs that the printer is out of ink, even when the cartridges are brand new!
p.s. Also it' became nearly impossible to find a company that sells the ink refill kits about 2 yrs ago.
I hate capitalism!!!!!!!
Get an Epson ecotank or similar.
My HP printer won't register the genuine cartridge that I've just removed to refill
I have an HP printer, and everytime my cartridge goes empty i refill it by locally bought ink bottle which cost like 1$ for 100ml ink. You need a syringe with a needle to refill the cartridge from the tiny hole present under a sticker on the cartridge. You can refill cartridge infinitely. It's a common thing here in India :)
@@ir7412 well it has worked well for me, i only replace cartridge when the tip of cartridge gets damaged after extreme usage (continuous brushing on the pages).
Other than that, i've never replaced my cartridges.
I used to be able to do that. Then they changed the printer's firmware so that it only accepts NEW cartridges. Weird. I thought we were SUPPOSED to recycle things.
With certain printers, it doesn't work. I had an old one that I just inject with ink and it worked for years but I forgot what model it was. I also had a Lexmark printer before that. It saved my poor college ass a decade or so ago. My mom has a newer one and besides buying a new cartridge, she brought the old one to show to a printer refill station that also sells ink refills. He refilled the old one and mom paid a bit more (🙄). Refilled cartridge never worked anymore. Fuck newer printers. Glad they now have ones with refillable tanks and you can buy locally manufactured compatible inks but people have been fucking hoarding and reselling the printer.
Do you have a video on how to do it.
@@TheRKae YES They will recycle it for and sell you back , make sure you sort your trash properly .
Gotta love when they’re literally making 26000% profit
It should be illegal to have such high profit margins. Businesses do anything to make money. It doesn't matter if people die as long as it generates revenue.
One must always assume that the company is trying to deceive.
imagine when you're on the side that receiving all that money, you gotta love it even more
@@electronresonator8882 try to imagine your back is the one the money is being made from, you wont see a cent, your back will kill you from all the hard work and them ppl be laughing at you for having worked so hard. Imagine.
Profit over human life. Why do ppl still support these brands.
@@DG-AI777 because there isn't a better cheaper option. There is no right to force companies to lower their profit margins. People seem to be plenty happy with what is on the market as I don't see other companies lining up to jump into the market. Seems like they know something Austin doesn't. >.>
I used a Brother Business Ink-Jet which worked for 2.5 years and worked well on cheap ink. The it broke (the nozzles could not be cleaned anymore).
So I bought an Xerox WorkCentre 6515 DNI, a laserprinter.
Not only does it have the same cartridges since I bought it (did not print too much), it also was dirt-cheap on eBay.
And besides, the Xerox guy from my office gave me 4 replacement-catridges for free. Actually I expect this thing to be with me for the next decade!