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Re:Why All Printers Suck, Even the Best Ones by bryanlarsen on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:12AM (#11438868)
All inkjet printers "expire" their ink.

Either you leave it plugged in, and it occasionally does a nozzle cleaning operation, using up ink each time, or you leave it unplugged, and it gets clogged if you don't use it regularly.

Granted, it does take longer than 6 months to empty an ink jet cartridge just through cleaning, but for an infrequently used printer, cleaning will use up a significant portion of your ink.

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Re:Why All Printers Suck, Even the Best Ones by 67726e on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:08AM (#11439255)
Everything I've ever read put it in the realm of around one to two years, not 6 months. In my case, I didn't even own the printer for a year before it pulled that one on me, and I purchased additional ink for it. That's just shady practice on HP's part.
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