New Gear: Epson EcoTank ET-2850 Inkjet Printer/Scanner
Computer printers suck. Every last one. Maybe some suck just a little less.
Over the years, we’ve had a litany of printers in our household. We started with an Epson 870 color inkjet. It was photo printer bought specifically for a project. We wanted to scan a bunch of old family photos, to create a booklet for each of Stella’s brothers and sisters.
It was a nice idea. But it took a vast amount of time. And consumed a monstrous amount of fancy paper and ink, in tiny little, high-priced cartridges. In the end, we might have been better off to have a local pharmacy output the images to real photo paper. It would have cost about the same, and the photos would have lasted longer.
That was over 20 years ago. In many regards, nothing has changed. In a recent podcast, Cory Doctorow reminds us that inkjet inks are the single most expensive fluid in existence.