The Best Printers That Won’t Cost You a Fortune in Ink Cartridges | WSJ
Beware of the talking printer
Printers are still the worst but at least new ink-tank printers help you save money on ink. WSJ’s Joanna Stern survived testing 10 home printers from Epson, HP, Brother and Canon to tell you which are worth buying.
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Don’t get anything with ink, even refillable ones, trust me! 🤣
I don’t print a lot,so I just got an Epson where the cartridges are about 20 dollars each but print around 250 pages,for me it’s okay cos I don’t print a lot.
What puts the brother and epson above the HP ink tank printers? Looking for a good all-in-one for graduate school (printing hundreds of pages of journal articles and Powerpoint printouts), home with kids, and photos.
BEWARE THE HP INK SUBSCRIPTION SCAM!!! HP will kill switch your printer if you cancel your ink subscription even though they are full. TOTAL BS SCAM!
You must speak about infrequent printing and ink drying out
I had a monster HP all in one printer that I accidently dropped and destroyed. I bought an HP8130e printer and it is the biggest pos ever. Constant connectivity problems. Prints partial page and stops. Doesn’t print at all. Is so slow I can make dinner before a page will print, well, almost. If you turn it off with the on/off button, it says shut down was done improperly and to use the shut off button. I hate everything about it. It is two months old and I want to return it. I can’t see spending the next five years dealing with this thing.
Such a great video, just what I needed. Well done and thanks a lot! 🙂
Have not seen a more poorly researched video than this.
"it’s complicated" 😁
this was a great video, is there anyone who could advise me on the better one of the following 2 printers, it will be used for school and not for work. HP Smart Tank 530 or Brother DCP-T520W Ink Tank Printer, thank you
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Unfortunately, they are still ripping people off even with the tank style printers. Ink prices have increased significantly over the past three years, even for the tank style. But the other issue is the manufacturers have set up the automatic cleaning algorithms to do cleaning cycles much too often, using up a lot of that high cost ink and filling up the waste ink collection pads. Once those pads are full, your printer won’t work. Good luck finding replacement pads and reset instructions for the waste ink counter. Until that counter is reset, even if you managed to replace the pads the printer still thinks it’s full and won’t print. Canon recently introduced the Maxify line of inkjets, at seriously higher prices, that has an easily replaced waste ink receptacle. Great, right? Not so fast. The "maintenance cartridge" costs $17 and it fills up fast. My one month old Canon already shows the maintenance cartridge is 2/3 full and the color inks are down 25%. I’ve only printed a handful of color documents, so that missing ink is now sitting in the waste container. If you don’t print every day, or only print a few sheets of black text, it appears they run cleaning cycles that rapidly use up your ink. It is very hard to believe with today’s technology they can’t come up with a way to keep print heads from clogging without running large amounts of ink through them.
Canon has a 75% chance of going bankrupt this year get rid of your Canon products they’re useless you won’t be able to buy in cartridges soon
i have 10 home printers, from A2 col laser to a dot matrix, and my fave machine is the battered canon A3 laser since you can get knockoff carts everywhere.
HO holds your printers hostage!!!!
Have a couple Brother laser printers that have been working great for 15+ years and they take after market cartridges with no problem. You just have to find a good refill cartridge supplier but just about all of them will refund or replace defective cartridges if you contact them as they don’t want negative reviews.
We went for the Epson.
HP has caused too many problems over the years to be a viable choice, for any device except calculators.
5 minutes of research can show more info than this video.
So as an architect…. What printer would you recommend for a home office? 😅
EPSON’s email print and scan is amazing, beside other features and very reliable app. Idk if the competitors offer the same 🤷🏻♂️
Actually ink tank printers have been mainstream in India well before than the US. I bought an Epson inktank that costed around ₹14000 while the hp cartridge printer cost me around 6000 two years prior. The hp lasted for 5 years after 4 major repairs. The inktank is still going strong after 8 yrs and saved me a lot of money ( 1 bottle of black costs aproxx ₹300, around $4). And they are relatively easy to work on.
The print head will get blocked after prolonged non-usage, but the printer has a option to clean that by itself.
Funny to know how technology in india is so much ahead of the us in some aspects
FINALY THANKS
Avoid HP, have to pay a monthly subscription and you can’t use a third party’s products.
my epson et2803 had an ink pad error after 3 months. had to order new ink pad and try to install off amazon. had no printer for days. epson was no help on webb sight or thru support. bad deal, my hp cost more but at least it printed. i only print maybe 45 copies a day but they are invoices!!!
why was HP not even mentioned once in this video, they started it all
5min and loving your video ong where have u been
Really appreciate your making it a fun video to watch! Thanks. 😊
yeah but I don’t have wireless service any wired options?
Which is best when repalcing a regular copier machine in a small officee? Need sheet feeding and two side copying???
This is 3 year old now. Can you update the video again.
What about now which printer is the best?
Hey everyone!
I’ve got a question. I’ve watched tons of videos trying to figure out the best printer for me, but I still haven’t made up my mind.
I have a printer (HP Laser Print 178nwg) that I use quite a bit, around 200/300 prints a month, 90% in black and white. But I’m not too happy with it – the software glitches a lot, the internet connection isn’t great, and the toner prices are pretty high…
Does anyone have any recommendations for a printer?
HP will brick your HP Deskjet if you use non HP cartridges!
Be great if you could buy a litre of ink and load it into the printer directly.
In one cartridge there was nearly 12 ml. of ink. It’s a rip off.
The colour inc clogged up my grandmas ecotanc, because she always turns it of after using it and in general doesn’t print too regularly. I thought she’d have to buy a new one. Again! But no! EPSON ACTUALLY HAS MULTIPLE SELF CLEANING CYCLES FOR THAT! It took a little bit but the instructions in the user manual are very clear. Try three presure cyles with diagnostics in between. If that doesn’t work (it didn’t, our printer had been struggling for over a month before she told me to do something about it) wait at least 12 hours and try the other cycle (don’t know what it’s called. I roughly translated the first cycles name from german) that didn’t work either, but the manual told us to repeat the first steps, wait 12 hours and try again. On the second morning the printer worked perfectly again! (Each pressure cycle took like two minutes and the deep cleaning cycle took five.) We didn’t have to take the printer to a repair facility, nor did we have to buy any specialty equipment. We didn’t even have to clean up afterwards! The printer only needed a little extra inc to clean itself!
I’m thinking about buying one for my mother who mostly works from home and has to replace her canon or HP printers every other year. She’s spent a ridiculous amount of money on printing supplies! Seriously!
(The bottles were one of the reasons she bought this printer. She always kept the ink levels really low because she believes that that’s the reason inc cartridges always fail her)
No mention of subscriptions
do not buy ink tank printers. also a scam
Can you please suggest duplex scanner and duplex printing color inkjet printer. Your response is highly appreciated.
I recently purchased a new Epson Eco Tank 3850 printer at Costco for $325.00. The setup was relatively easy and I had it up and running in about 15 minutes after unboxing. However, I am extremely disappointed in the quality of the printing for both documents and photos.The edging in the photos were grainy and the colors were darker then the original photos. I reset the color management and it still produced a low quality image. The scanner is also cheap inefficient. After scanning a simple document I discovered the text had jagged edges and the tops of the fonts in some sentences were chopped off. The only way I could get nice sharp fonts in a document was to scan in Photo Mode. The top automatic feeder which is used to scan multiple documents or make copies, pulls the entire stack of papers into the feeder all at once. I had to physically stagger each page individually to prevent the stack from jamming the feeder. All in all this printer is constructed of poor quality materials and is cheaply made. Thank God I saved the box. I’m packaging it back up and taking it back to Costco first thing tomorrow.
how can the ecotank print more than tenfold the amount of paper compared to the standard printer. Im just curious, would have been nice if it was explained briefly. But yeah next one ecotank it is. Btw we have this old brother cartridge printer, and that one only gave me headache even tho i only used it like once a year or so. Never brother printers again for me.
Nothing is worse than HP for toner! It now costs me $400 per cartridge!
Whatever you do don’t buy HP!
Problem is, if I wanna print ONLY black + white, the darn thing insists upon using COLORED ink. THAT’s a SCAM.
3:15 cost of ink for Epson
Oh brother
HP and Canon drive me insane, these printers are low cost, but the ink cost doubles. software problems, paper jams, and running out of ink fast really s*ks. Well, I was searching for some genuine reviews, and thanks to you. it’s time to try new one 🙂
This was the only video that didnt make me angrier about my printer situation than i already am.
Thank you 😊
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Epsons are horrible! The printers constantly clog. Until the warranty expires. You use tons of ink cleaning them until you can’t anymore.