I thought the joke here was that even when they're not locked your average inkjet printer is a hot pile of garbage machinery that works only when the planets align and you've sacrificed 3 goats and a your firstborn.

Meanwhile laster jet printers work most of the time except when they don't.

Edit: one time I wanted to buy more ink for my inkjet and there was a brand new inkjet printer that came with ink that was less expensive than a new cartridge. (Of the same size)

The new printer was $30 and worked just as poorly as my $150 inkjet.

I've done printer maintenance for years among other things and inkjets are literally designed and manufactured in the deepest layer of hell.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I looked into laser printers but they didn't meet my requirement of wanting to print photos

Brother has started putting drm in their laser printers and I'm not aware of a replacement brand for them yet

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 points 8 months ago

I was looking for a new printer and I also wanted to print photos. Problem with inkjets is that you have to use them regularly or the ink dries out so that was no option either.

I eventually settled on a black and white laserprinter, which is cheap to buy and run (a new 3000 page toner is like €40) and a Canon Selphy CP1500 for photos, which uses dye sublimation so no issues with ink drying out. It only prints 15x10 photos which covers the majority of my needs, for anything larger I want to use a good photo printing service anyway.