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There's the Epson Eco-Tank series. Ink is in four bottles at the side of the machine, good for about 4000-6000 pages. Refill with Epson ink bottles or (a bit more messily) from bulk ink. The printer costs about $279.

You do have to clean the print heads occasionally. That's the price of long life print heads.

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You can also buy mods for printers (I have a http://www.rihac.com.au/ ) to give them proper ink reservoirs.

When I got mine done (a canon) they requested my old empty cartridges, as they just grab the chip out of them and trick it into thinking its always full.

Some brands have a lifetime counter in the chip and will shut off after a certain X pages no matter how much ink is actually left.

Haven't some manufacturers of refilled cartridges hacked the firmware for some printers to prevent this, triggering the wrath of the DMCA?

Even brother is joining in the refillable tank brigade. No need to get a cartridge based printer in 2016 :)

How is the Linux support for Epson printers? The big thing for HP is their good support for Linux.

"Good" Linux support means being able to just download a PPD and shove it into CUPS. AFAIK HP is the only one that requires their own crappy GUI on top.

Personally, I never ever had to use hplip's GUI tool, except for configuring wireless printing. After doing so, I could uninstall it and use bog-standard CUPS.

I've had a couple of HP printers on Linux and they didn't require a GUI.

The only time I had to use (admittedly annoying) HP GUI installer is for scanner part of HP CM1015 MFP. Printer part of the same MFP worked fine with just normal CUPS.

At my previous job we installed dozens of different HP printers on Linux. We never needed to launch a GUI.

Just check on https://www.openprinting.org/printers to make sure whatever you want to get is supported.

Generally, I have less problems with printers like the XP-320 than HP printers because they are just download the PPD -> good to go. No fucking with HPLIP or an entire software stack around it.

How is the support good? I've bought a pro laserjet and the wireless wont work (bug is years old), manual duplex won't work, the print jobs like to go disappear into some limbo every now and then...

Did we now say perfect somewhere?

The Laserjet I have is a real pain to get working under Linux. It also looses its firmware every time it is unplugged.

Already got an epson printer thats working well? you can buy an Inklink that fits to it much like the ecotank - much cheaper and saves you $1000's www.rihac.com.au

The only problem of epson is it sounds like (from the reviews) that they have bad Wireless support which is kind of a must for some people like me who use their phone to print.

Strange I have no problems with Wireless at all using ET-2550.

mine works fine from my phone & pc via wireless

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