It’s not cheapness. My kid couldn’t print her homework because I was low on cyan. It’s not that I don’t want to buy more ink, but that the thing I was printing only needed black. If it weren’t a color printer, the output would’ve been identical and it wouldn’t have needed cyan.

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Grombobulous 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Alternatively, the printer allows you to keep going regardless of status of the print ink and then the printer gets bad reviews and complaints about bad print quality.

Your unpreparedness on your kids’ homework isn’t the fault of the manufacturer. I can’t blame Ticonderoga if I run out of pencils.

If you ran out of black ink you’d be similarly in trouble.

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xattt 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Your unpreparedness on your kids’ homework isn’t the fault of the manufacturer. I can’t blame Ticonderoga if I run out of pencils.

That analogy doesn’t hold up. You have other colour pencils at hand, but you can’t use them because the blue pencil is worn down. Let me use my goshdarn pencils.

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epcoa an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard. A standard mono laser printer can somehow print adequately without ANY color toner.

	▲	Grombobulous 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Because it has a different ink formulation that’s designed for mono-colored printing. Let’s make another analogy: two wheels fall off my car. You tell me “hey, motorcycles exist, you can still use that car!!” But my car isn’t a motorcycle, it’s a car. If you buy a printer that requires two cartridges to function then you keep both cartridges filled to keep it functioning. I’ve always felt like this whole discussion has mostly surrounded people who are penny pinching to an extreme level that doesn’t make sense. You didn’t run out of color ink because you never printed in color. And if you never printed in color you wouldn’t have bought a color printer. You’ve gotta refill your color ink eventually. This is the same thing as people who add water to their liquid hand soap to try and make it last longer. It just makes the soap gross and saves 10 cents at best.