Yet somewhow they aren't offered for sale in Europe?
Instead we get the subscription model, which involves yet more data (printer usage, ink levels) disappearing off to someone else's servers.
Then pay a reasonable price for cartridge with printhead ongoing, otherwise, if I'm successful keeping the printer as long as possible, I'm still recouping the low cost of the printer long past the point I bought enough ink to do so.
I don't need high throughput, heavy duty, as I don't print that much any more, so buying from the business range isn't usually sensible.
It just works. It's not wasteful. And it won't dry out from lack of use. I figure I'll break even over buying ink-jet printers and cartridges in another year or so. Even if everything costs more in short term, it's so much less wasteful.
It's only a year old and now it won't suck up the paper properly. I have to literally stick my hands into it and feed the paper in page-by-page.
The thing has successfully printed less than 20 pages and it's already not working.
It's 2016 and Samsung can't make a rubber roller that works. And I don't want to buy another just to have the same thing happen.
That was a mistake.
Ethernet is. Most WiFi gear is.
For most video equipment there exist some kind of adapters.
That said, I switched to a laser printer from Samsung for any printing that I still do. I had a HP photosmart printer for photo prints, but at the volume of a photo a year, it is cheaper to have the photo printed at walgreens, CVS or any other printing place than it is to buy new ink cartridges, even remanufactured ones.
Isn't that exactly what HP is doing now when they sell a cheap printer with replaceable cartridges that contain ink and a print head? Are you saying the "plumbing" is the difficult part?
I suspect "economics" in this case means they weren't making huge margins on ink cartridges.
How does a head get "ruined"? If its clogged can't it just be cleaned? Perhaps by flushing through with a solvent. I call shenanigans.
- disposable cartridges with printheads (what most people have at home), here we have to recoup the cost of the disposed silicon printhead and the low initial price of the printer
- permanent printheads (what you're asking for) and disposable ink "tanks" of various capacities, here the challenge is to make sure the printhead doesn't get ruined before the printer gets replaced. Third party ink can be a contributing factor to printhead health
We now also have an ink-subscription model where you pay at some anticipated level of ink use and you get a replacement cartridge when we think you need it.