Does it still clog up? There are many be one or two more refillable ink printers but are they good? Has printing quality improved?
Or are they still a bag of hurt we should all just hope for better and cheaper colour laser / LED printer.
Keith Cooper on YouTube has lots of informative videos about the ET-8550: https://www.youtube.com/@KeithCooper/search?query=8550
Yes, even very high end printers like an Epson p5370 - https://luminous-landscape.com/the-epson-sc-p5370-printer/ "The printhead is the same relatively maintenance-light device that P900 owners (and predecessor P3880/3800 owners) really appreciate. These heads don’t clog much unless you leave the printer idle over long intervals and/or sit the printer in a very dry environment."
> Has printing quality improved?
Depends on the printer? A professional inkjet is extremely high quality these days.
>Or are they still a bag of hurt we should all just hope for better and cheaper colour laser / LED printer.
In a distant past I was tech support help desk person, which included poking the many color laser printers we had. They also actually broke all the time :(
After 3 printers it was not hard to persuade them to go B&W
You'd think that after all this time, it'd be a built-in feature.
If it were built-in, you could even minimize the wasted ink and paper. Just print a single line every few days or something and keep the same sheet of paper in place for weeks or months and add to it instead of using a new sheet of paper. The ink has plenty of time to dry, so you can probably print over the same areas repeatedly.
Alternatively, you could implement it in the driver, but there's more opportunity for things to go wrong if you restart the computer, lose the connection, or have multiple computers sharing a printer.
It was recently fully clogged (Epson EcoTank) and I managed to get it back to fully printing after about 10 rounds of head cleaning, so it's not a huge deal, but how many home printers are really printing regularly these days.
Ours gets used maybe once per quarter, and I actively encourage the kids to just photocopy, in colour, random stuff whenever they want to be sure it doesn't just clog up.
Or a cron job if you run the HA server on something that looks like Unix.
On that front things look the same they always did.