• Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Anything. Literally anything. I’ve noticed laser printing for pictures gives that nice quality and it just bumps everything up by a mile. https://www.lexmark.com/en_us/printers/printer/14385/Lexmark-C3224dw

    That’s the one I’ve had for almost ten years.

    The new model is exactly the same and like 350$ but the amount of money you save on ink is incredible. I ate the high upfront cost because I knew I would be saving on ink.

    I got the big bottles of toner powder for like I think 80$ (ebay) which is what the cost of one ink cartridge. So for the cost of an ink cartridge I have 3 1/2 refills worth of powder for my toners.

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      3 hours ago

      Ooh, good to hear there are laser printers out there that can print good art!

      Also $80 for a cartridge?? holy HECK ink is a ripoff. Wow.

      – Frost

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        Also $80 for a cartridge?? holy HECK ink is a ripoff. Wow.

        I haven’t purchased ink in so long I forgot the price. I just googled it. Looks like it could range depending on the brand name and the printer you’re getting the ink for could be 15$ could be 60$ depending on full sets or singles but they’re so small and run out so quick. You’d be spending 60$ on like three cartridges for what a laser printer could do for less than half of that. And that would be just your black cartridge. So if all of them ran out that’s about 80$ a set.