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Analysis | Printer ink is a scam. Here’s how to spend less.

wapo.st Analysis | Printer ink is a scam. Here’s how to spend less.

Americans waste $10 billion each year on name-brand ink. So we tested low-cost options including remanufactured cartridges, ink injection kits — and even making our own.

Analysis | Printer ink is a scam. Here’s how to spend less.

Washington Post: Americans waste $10 billion each year on name-brand ink. So we tested low-cost options including remanufactured cartridges, ink injection kits — and even making our own.

My advice: get a mono laser printer. Printing is handy but relatively infrequent for a lot of people these days. If that's your use case, mono laser is the way to go. Toner does not dry out or go bad.

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  • I bought a cheap Canon inkjet and have started refilling it with cheap off-brand ink. It's not particularly as good as the original ink, but for my purposes it works great.

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