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by not_your_vase 565 days ago
You know, my biggest problem is not the price per se. I have an inkjet, and use it maybe twice a year. But every time when I use it successfully, it is extremely convenient to be able to print at home. So convenient, that I wouldn't even mind the price.

What I mind is, that because I use it so rarely, that damn expensive cartridge dries up every 2 or so years, after printing maybe like 30 pages. That's what kills me. That's one thing that it's more expensive than gold, but it has awful quality.

"Funny" thing is, I used to have a Xerox laser printer years ago. The toner dried stopped working in it also if it wasn't used for months. The main difference was that the toner cost 3 or 4 times the price of an inkjet cartridge.

Fuck printers.

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Well I can confidently say it wasn't the toner drying up in your laser printer. Toner is a completely dry powder to begin with.
Yes. I have realized this when I wrote the comment, and tried to use the "stopped working" instead. But in my infinite wisdom I found it appropriate not to delete completely the original "dried out" words before posting.