• Screwthehole@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          You don’t get the same quantity of ink in the cartridges.

          When I used to sell computer equipment, I knew the numbers and while I don’t know them specifically now, I can assure you the multi billion dollar companies didn’t start putting more ink in the cartridges that come with their printers. They are starter cartridges and print only a portion of the pages replacement cartridges will print. In my day, the cartridges that came with Epson, canon, Lexmark, and HP (the brands we sold) typically had 20-30% of the capacity. Once in awhile Epson would sell a printer with full cartridges as a promo.

          • Saneless@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            I mean, you’ve already made a bad choice going with an inkjet. Buying more ink is a bad decision. So is buying a new printer but you might get better features

            And if anything you’re part of a nice metric that shows buying replacement ink isn’t happening