Not having to worry about ink refills every month is great.

It takes $300/$7.50 = 40 months to break even

The the printer just up and died, six months in

that I loved; however, it died on me a few months

Here are some break-even points for different levels of use for $80 vs $330, in case it drops again:For 100 typical mixed black/white and color pages a month: 4 years, 2 months.150 pages a month: 2 years and 9 months.200 or 300: 2 years and 1 month.400: 18 months.500: 14 months

It takes $300/$18 = 16.7 months to break even

The old brand was much much cheaper, but every six months when I needed to print something I had to buy $50 worth of ink.

It takes $300/$14 = 21.4 months to break even

that I loved; however, it died on me a few months

It has been a good seven months of use and there have not been any issues as of now.

It takes $300/$10 = 30 months to break even

Unfortunately, I went a month or so without printing anything, and the ink clogged up the printer

I wanted to avoid the sticker shock of ink cartridges a few months after buying a cheap printer - so I decided to buy an EcoTank

90's level non-printing piece-o-junk just to save money on ink

n’t have to scratch with your fingernail to grasp it

n’t have complicated OCR work to do anymore and that’s why I stopped using ABBYY in the first place