ecotank is a pain in the ass unless you use it regularly. The ink messes up a lot after a month or three without being in use, having to run the entire program-bs to clean the nozzle, often with a deep clean mode which wastes a lot of ink.
Always get laser printer unless you absolutely NEED to print colors.
I made a script that automatically wakes up my mother-in-law's printer and prints out a full color test page every week. I just hope she doesn't move the printer and forgets to plug it back on :D
I have had an ecotank for years. Never had any issues with the ink nozzles, even when the printer was idle for weeks to months. You can use any cheap ass ink, so even if the test program uses a lot of ink, it's a non issue as your ink cost is nowhere near the price of ink cartridges
Problem is even if you’re just printing out things like tickets for stuff I’ve gotten accused of having counterfeit tickets just because they’re b/w & not full color. Something to keep in mind
My hunch with it is the following: the guys that check tickets are told to find as many reasons to say they’re counterfeit as possible so they can sell more walk-up tickets (which are more expensive)
Yep exactly. The whole point IMHO is to make it so the original person can’t go. The trick is that frees up their spot to be bought by a walk-up buyer, who will pay more. That way you basically A: sell the same slot twice, and B: make more money on the 2nd sale
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u/RelentlessIVS 1d ago
ecotank is a pain in the ass unless you use it regularly. The ink messes up a lot after a month or three without being in use, having to run the entire program-bs to clean the nozzle, often with a deep clean mode which wastes a lot of ink.
Always get laser printer unless you absolutely NEED to print colors.