I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018 and im likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like cannon.


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Re: epson ecotank
By: Matthew Munson to All on Mon Mar 30 2026 09:52 pm

I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018 and im likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like cannon.

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Do you really NEED a printer? i've owned a bunch and the ink situation is
just A pain in the ass. I have one sitting in a tub someplace. I used it
once.

The ink costs more than the cheap printers. i'd rather print my stuff at a library or ups store.
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Re: epson ecotank
By: Matthew Munson to All on Mon Mar 30 2026 21:52:00

I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018 and im likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like cannon.

My last ink printer was hp deskjet 510. =) what a classic!
I then used Brother HL 5040 and now Brother HL 5350. For many many years. Thanks to refill toner it is as cheap as it gets to print alot of stuff.
Only thing i can't (and don't want) is color. I always had b/w laser printers.

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Re: epson ecotank
By: Matthew Munson to All on Mon Mar 30 2026 09:52 pm

I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018 and im likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like cannon.

I have 2 Epson ecotanks and love them, what is your issue with it?

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I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018 and i
likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like cannon.

Is there a particular reason you don't like it?


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Re: epson ecotank
By: Matthew Munson to All on Mon Mar 30 2026 09:52 pm

I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018 and im likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like cannon.

I used to use inkjet printers, but years ago (I think in 2013), I decided to buy a laser printer, and I'm glad I did. I don't print often, but sometimes I do, and laser toner doesn't dry out. That particular printer started to not work very well, and I replaced it a couple years ago.

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Re: epson ecotank
By: MRO to Matthew Munson on Tue Mar 31 2026 02:18 am

Do you really NEED a printer? i've owned a bunch and the ink situation is just A pain in the ass. I have one sitting in a tub someplace. I used it once.

I think a 3-in-1 printer/scanner/copier is convenient to have at home. I don't need one very often, but sometimes I do, and since I have one at home, I don't need to go to a print/copy place. Every so often, I'll have something where someone emails me a form to sign, and it's old-fashioned where I need to print it, sign it, and scan it in to send back to them. Also, if I make a big purchase (like a car or something), I like being able to scan the paperwork into a PDF that I can view more easily on my computer. Also, when looking for a job, every so often I'll print a resume for places that (rarely) want a printed resume, or when I'm getting my resume reviewed by someone.

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Re: epson ecotank
By: Denn to Matthew Munson on Tue Mar 31 2026 09:02 am

I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018
and im likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like
cannon.

I have 2 Epson ecotanks and love them, what is your issue with it?

He mentioned the ink will dry out, which is a common problem with any inkjet printer (although has Epson solved that somehow?). I used to use inkjet printers, and I print rarely enough that by the time I wanted to print something again, the ink would be dry. I ended up deciding to buy a laser printer, and I'm glad I did.

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On 31 Mar 2026, MRO said the following...

Do you really NEED a printer? i've owned a bunch and the ink situation is just A pain in the ass. I have one sitting in a tub someplace. I
used it once.

i print a new calendar once a month (for the month after the current one.. just enough to write coming up events). use the print shop to design it and throw some lame clip art on there lol. it's mostly just nostalgia. i do like having a physical calendar though ..

i also sometimes print maps for video games. or goofy pictures for my nephews.

i have a canon mg6200 that's in a pretty sweet spot for ink prices (ebay stuff is fine)

nothing important but i think it's fun i think *shrug*

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I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since
2018 and im likely going to drain the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like cannon.

If you can find a Canon model that takes individual color tanks, go for
it. I have a Canon MX922 that's a workhorse - it's got a decent sheet
feeder, separate enclosed letter and 4x6 trays (I hate paper sticking
out of a printer...) and third-party ink is cheap, under $20 for a set
of 15, 3 of each color)

One thing I've never done with it - it'll print on printable CD/DVD
stock.

I just bought a replacement print head for it for $30 on eBay, prints
like new.




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Re: epson ecotank
By: Nightfox to Denn on Tue Mar 31 2026 01:14 pm

I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018
and im likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like
cannon.

I have 2 Epson ecotanks and love them, what is your issue with it?

He mentioned the ink will dry out, which is a common problem with any inkjet printer (although has Epson solved that somehow?). I used to use inkjet printers, and I print rarely enough that by the time I wanted to print something again, the ink would be dry. I ended up deciding to buy a laser printer, and I'm glad I did.

As long as you print something a couple of times a month the eco tank does'nt dry out, they actually automatically wet the print head every so often.
you do have to replace the overflow filter once in awhile, amazon has them for cheap, they only need replaced like every two years, and the printer gives a warning when it needs changing.

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Re: epson ecotank
By: Matthew Munson to All on Mon Mar 30 2026 09:52 pm

I wish I never bought the epson ecot > printer, ive owned it since 2018 and > likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different > model from a different maker like cannon.

Oh I hate those damn things. Garbage
all around.


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Re: epson ecotank
By: MRO to Matthew Munson on Tue Mar 31 2026 02:18 am

Do you really NEED a printer? i've > owned a bunch and the ink situation > just A pain in the ass. I have one > sitting in a tub someplace. I used i > once.

Sometimes you get lucky. I have a 15
year old brother printer I got at a
thrift shop for less than $10 and it
still works great for the 6 times a
year I need it. I agree with you
though, I don't know that I would buy anew one if I didn't have to, ESPECIALLYfrom HP.


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I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018

>and im likely going to drain the ink dry and just buy a different model
>from a different maker like cannon.

Long ago I decided to get a Laser printer so I didn't have to deal
with jets clogging and ink or ribbons drying out and such.

On a Boxing Day sale I got a Samsung Laser printer and it's been great.
I don't use it a huge amount but it's been working fine since 2006..

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My last ink printer was hp deskjet 510. =) what a classic!

Those were tanks - I miss mine, sometimes. Cheap rollers,
easy-to-refill cartridges...




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Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

I think a 3-in-1 printer/scanner/copier is convenient to have at home.
I don't need one very often, but sometimes I do, and since I have one
at home, I don't need to go to a print/copy place.

I got sold on inkjet MFPs when I was going through a divorce - the
amount of paper I scanned made it pay for itself.

Now, I work from home, and I appreciate being able to print an
agreement, sign it, scan it and email it back to the company.



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Sometimes you get lucky. I have a 15
year old brother printer I got at a
thrift shop for less than $10 and it
still works great for the 6 times a
year I need it. I agree with you
though, I don't know that I would buy anew one if I didn't have to, ESPECIALLYfrom HP.

Find an old HP and you're golden. I had a tech surplus store near me
that had all sorts of unsorted junk. Buried in junk I found an HP
Laserjet IIIp, printed a test page and found that it had something like
400 pages on it - assumed it was one of those printers execs got in
their office in case they wanted to print confidential memos or
something.

I found another paper tray there later - that printer lasted me for
years. One problem was paper curling - could never fix that.



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Re: Re: epson ecotank
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Vilenihilist on Wed Apr 01 2026 06:57 am

Find an old HP and you're golden. I > had a tech surplus store near me
that had all sorts of unsorted junk > Buried in junk I found an HP
Laserjet IIIp, printed a test page > found that it had something like
400 pages on it - assumed it was on > of those printers execs got in
their office in case they wanted to > print confidential memos or
something.

I found another paper tray there la > - that printer lasted me for
years. One problem was paper curlin > could never fix that.

That reminds me, one of my great
regrets is that I wasn't able to repairthe feed tray of a Canon Starwriter
that I had for a bit. Loved using that
thing but I just could never get it to
feed properly and thus it wasn't
practical. Combine that withe fact tht
the floppie formatted in a proprietary
format that would need to boot into
FreeDOS to use with the relevant
software and it spelled the death of
that machine for me.

My dreams of an inkjet typewriter were
dashed.


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Re: epson ecotank
By: Denn to Nightfox on Tue Mar 31 2026 09:41 pm

As long as you print something a couple of times a month the eco tank does'nt dry out, they actually automatically wet the print head every so often. you do have to replace the overflow filter once in awhile, amazon has them for cheap, they only need replaced like every two years, and the printer gives a warning when it needs changing.

That's good. For me, I'd probably have to set a reminder to remind myself to print something that often. Still, I think I'd prefer a laser printer, as it doesn't really matter how long I go without printing; I can come back and print something any time and it's fine.

Also, I don't know for sure, but it seems to me that the 3-in-1 printer/scanner/copier machines use laser toner more often than ink for printing. I find those devices fairly handy, as I sometimes like to scan documents into my computer (such as paperwork for big purchases, and sometimes receipts, etc.).

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Re: epson ecotank
By: Denn to Nightfox on Tue Mar 31 2026 21:41:08

...the printer gives a warning when it needs changing.

I guess babies are like inkjets in that regard. :)

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Re: epson ecotank
By: Nightfox to MRO on Tue Mar 31 2026 01:13 pm

a job, every so often I'll print a resume for places that (rarely) want a printed resume, or when I'm getting my resume reviewed by someone.

Speaking of resumes, have you heard of ATS? Some bullshit software that apparently all resumes are going through that decides whether you move on to a real person or not. I'm pretty sure my resume is getting filtered out by this crap at every job I've applied to in the past two years. Many people with perfectly good resumes are not making it to the hiring managers for review. It's supposed to just filter our the people that have no business applying for the positions, but it's blocking 1000% more.

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Re: epson ecotank
By: Nightfox to Denn on Wed Apr 01 2026 09:43 am

As long as you print something a couple of times a month the eco tank

That's good. For me, I'd probably have to set a reminder to remind myself to print something that often. Still, I think I'd prefer a laser printer, as it doesn't really matter how long I go without printing; I can come back and print something any time and it's fine.

Also, I don't know for sure, but it seems to me that the 3-in-1 printer/scanner/copier machines use laser toner more often than ink for printing. I find those devices fairly handy, as I sometimes like to scan documents into my computer (such as paperwork for big purchases, and sometimes receipts, etc.).

Both of my epson ecotank printers scan/copy/print the better one even faxes and prints to a pdf document.

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Re: epson ecotank
By: phigan to Nightfox on Wed Apr 01 2026 11:30 am

a job, every so often I'll print a resume for places that (rarely) want a
printed resume, or when I'm getting my resume reviewed by someone.

Speaking of resumes, have you heard of ATS? Some bullshit software that apparently all resumes are going through that decides whether you move on to a real person or not. I'm pretty sure my resume is getting filtered out by this crap at every job I've applied to in the past two years. Many people with perfectly good resumes are not making it to the hiring managers for review. It's supposed to just filter our the people that have no business applying for the positions, but it's blocking 1000% more.

Yeah, I've been aware of that for a long time. ATS is short for Applicant Tracking System, and as far as I know, it's simply a system for keeping track of people who have applied for what jobs (which I think makes sense for a company to have). I don't think it necessarily means they're using AI, but I've heard a lot of companies are using AI with their ATS these days.

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a job, every so often I'll print a resume for places that (rarely) want a printed resume, or when I'm getting my resume reviewed by someone.

Speaking of resumes, have you heard of ATS? Some bullshit software that apparently all resumes are going through that decides whether you move
on to a real person or not. I'm pretty sure my resume is getting
filtered out by this crap at every job I've applied to in the past two years. Many people with perfectly good resumes are not making it to the hiring managers for review. It's supposed to just filter our the people that have no business applying for the positions, but it's blocking
1000% more.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't really filtering
you.



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I have 2 Epson ecotanks and love them, what is your issue with it?

Dries out too fast where i have to run maintence modes when i want to
print.

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Re: epson ecotank
By: Rob Mccart to MATTHEW MUNSON on Wed Apr 01 2026 07:21 am

I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive

owned it since 2018
> and im likely going to drain the ink dry and just buy a
different model
> from a different maker like cannon.

Long ago I decided to get a Laser printer so I didn't have to deal
with jets clogging and ink or ribbons drying out and such.

On a Boxing Day sale I got a Samsung Laser printer and it's been
great. I don't use it a huge amount but it's been working fine since
2006..

i used to have a bunch of epson fx-880 dot matrix printers.
this guy in a computer shop told me to never get rid of them when i told him
i had a bunch.

eventually i tossed them. they were great workhorses but i am a print at
work kinda guy.

one time my 'monitor' (i call them displays) blew and i was able to redirect the output to my printer so i could see what directries i was in and what i was doing. that was only dos though. i can't belive i even did that.


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Re: epson ecotank
By: Matthew Munson to All on Mon Mar 30 2026 09:52 pm

I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018 and im likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like cannon.

I liked my Canon printer which went belly-up a couple of years ago. I replaced it with an HP and now know that I will never buy another HP printer. The next one will be something different... maybe another canon.

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Re: epson ecotank
By: Matthew Munson to All on Mon Mar 30 2026 09:52 pm

I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018 and im likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like cannon.

I liked my Canon printer which went belly-up a couple of years ago. I replaced it with an HP and now know that I will never buy another HP printer. The next one will be something different... maybe another
canon.

Brother laser for the win.



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Re: Re: epson ecotank
By: Gamgee to Bf2k+ on Thu Apr 02 2026 08:05 am

Brother laser for the win.

I have a Brother laser priner as well.. It's one of their multi-function printers, and I find it useful.

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phigan wrote to Nightfox <=-

Speaking of resumes, have you heard of ATS? Some bullshit software that apparently all resumes are going through that decides whether you move
on to a real person or not.

I've been hiring for my organization lately. It's obvious which resumes
are tailored to my job descriptions, when they hit every software title
or technology we're asking for.

Then, when HR passes them on to me for a video interview, it's totally
obvious that they have no experience with it. My screening question is,
"Tell me a story about your experiences with {software/technology} and
how it affected the company for the better?"

They'll usually open a LLM window and start reading what comes out.


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Re: epson ecotank
By: MRO to Rob Mccart on Thu Apr 02 2026 02:32 am

one time my 'monitor' (i call them displays) blew and i was able to redirect the output to my printer so i could see what
directries
i was in and what i was doing. that was only dos though. i can't belive i even did that.

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Re: Re: epson ecotank
By: poindexter FORTRAN to phigan on Thu Apr 02 2026 07:35 am

I've been hiring for my organization lately. It's obvious which resumes are tailored to my job descriptions, when they hit every software title or technology we're asking for.

Then, when HR passes them on to me for a video interview, it's totally obvious that they have no experience with it. My screening question is, "Tell me a story about your experiences with {software/technology} and how it affected the company for the better?"

They'll usually open a LLM window and start reading what comes out.

Yeah, it's not good to totally fake stuff for an interview..

I'm doing a job search right now, and I've heard differing opinions about using AI to help tailor a resume & cover letter to an application. Everyone agrees that you should check & edit what the AI generates to ensure it doesn't have false information, though I've also seen some hiring managers say they don't like candidates using AI at all for their resume or cover letter because they don't think that really represents who they are (they want to see something that really comes from the candidate).

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Re: Re: epson ecotank
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Apr 02 2026 08:54:53

I've also seen some hiring managers say they don't like candidates using AI at all for their resume or cover letter because they don't think that really represents who they are (they want to see something that really comes from the candidate).

I totally agree with that philosophy.

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Re: epson ecotank
By: Bf2k+ to Matthew Munson on Thu Apr 02 2026 02:37 am

I wish I never bought the epson ecotank printer, ive owned it since 2018
and im likely going to drain
the ink dry and just buy a different model from a different maker like
cannon.

I liked my Canon printer which went belly-up a couple of years ago. I replaced it with an HP and now know that I will never buy another HP printer. The next one will be something different... maybe another canon.

I love my epson ecotank 4800 series printer, prints double sided, can scan serveral pages at once, can print to a pdf file, I can fax and so much more.
My wife loves to print recipes all the time, she then shreds them about 6 months later lol.

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Re: epson ecotank
By: Denn to Bf2k+ on Thu Apr 02 2026 09:33:16

I love my epson ecotank 4800 series printer, prints double sided, can scan serveral pages at once, can print to a pdf file, I can fax and so much more.

Until you have to take it in for repairs and you can't do ANY of those things. Single-purpose devices may take up more room, but at you can still do some of that stuff.

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Re: Re: epson ecotank
By: Gamgee to Bf2k+ on Thu Apr 02 2026 08:05 am

Brother laser for the win.

I have a Brother laser priner as well.. It's one of their
multi-function printers, and I find it useful.

Mine is just a laser printer, but it's rock solid and toner lasts a LONG
time. I also have an HP OfficeJet multi-function, which works well too,
but the color ink cartridges are ridiculously expensive. I do like the copy/scan functions and the color ability if needed. Between the two
printers I'm covered for all that I need.



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