Printers

DH got the following in a daily tech-head newsletter he receives - thought it might be of interest to those in the market for a new printer.

"HP has recently been fixing the lower-priced printers so their consumables don't last as long. The three HP printers I know about are the 612C, 812C and the 940. All three of these printers use a special black cartridge that looks like a normal cartridge, but only holds 21ml of ink in comparison to 42ml of ink for the standard cartridges. The printers are designed to only accept these special cartridges and cannot use the standard cartridge. The kicker is that both cartridges usually cost the price at the store, so in the end, you pay twice as much for the same amount of ink. I am not sure about other manufacturers of printers if they use similar tactics on their lower priced printers."