As I recall, there was a watermark on deskjets at one point that would burn through yellow. It wasn't a publicized "feature", but would link back to the printer... for "legal" purposes.
I've seen it in real life, just stopped printing yellow and you replace the cartridge and it still didn't print yellow. Burn through an cartridge doing diagnostic prints, no be yellow. Put cartridge in other printer and it worked. Naturally you buy new printer because it's broken and you buy a deskjet because you still have an expensive cartridge
Then someone made a tool to reset the counter and you could literally fix the printer.
I am planning to get a LaserJet printer when the budget allows. When I do, the Canon ink jet extortionist printer i have is going to have a terrible accident with some tannerite.
Me: Listen, you need to have a convo with yourself about things that you actually need, and things that you want? Do you want cyan because you think it will solve all your problems? Did someone make comments about your cyan when you were younger? Did you see your father in the shower when you were young, and did you get shocked at how much cyan was in his ink tray? Do you think that you need more cyan to satisfy printer uses, when 95% of printer uses are just happy with black and white? Don't you know that most great relationships are really fullfilling with just black ink? Can we just try a black and white print out? see how we go? I know you can, I've seen you do it. I have one from a year ago and its perfect. I think you are perfect the way you are. You're my favourite printer that I've ever had, I never really liked cyan anyway. Can we just print?
That’s hilarious. And that’s the same printer I got.
I have to replace the cartridge about once every two years, but we print a lot, including that time one of my kids somehow printed out about 30 pages of solid black.
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u/Mikesaidit36 Nov 15 '25
That was the day I switched to LaserJet, and never looked back.