She bought it for work reasons.

I was not part of the printer decision.

I own a brother printer.

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    Reminds me of my Uncle Kieth’s house in the 1970s. He had a color TV but the sound didn’t work, so he put an old black & white portable TV on top of it for sound. When you wanted to change the channel, you had to get up and change them both.

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    As far as inkjets go, she didn’t do terrible. If you need color and don’t want something huge, this is a reasonable decision. But stacking it a top of the dead carcass of it’s cousin is probably some sort of robot hate crime. You better hope they aren’t telling the Seiko/Epson AI about it.

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    Here we see the Epsonis Imprinterae in its natural environment, marking territory that it won from a rival to assert its dominance to any potential competitors that may be lurking nearby

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    I have the same and use it with Linux. I can recommend it after fleeing from Csnon’s color cardrige fashism. The epson uses refillable ink, without any electronics. You can buy 3rd party ink by design.It was designed during the chip shortage where it wasn’t profitable anymore to make defective-by-design chipped ink cardridges. Lucky us.

    Even scanning works over the network.

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    At the rate these things fail, the printer stack will be holding up the roof before the end of next year

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    Pretty sure I have that exact same Cannon printer.

    It’s garbage and really needs replacing, but I print like 2 pages a year.

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      I have a Canon PIXMA (got it for free) and it’s fucking garbage, but if you only need to print like 5 things a year it’s hard to justify getting a new one. Despite all that we probably already spent $100s in ink.

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          I know, it’s such a scam. I think those ink cartridges have a timer in addition to just checking the ink level.

          I think one of these days the thing will enrage me so much I’ll just instant buy a Brother.