Fstoppers on YouTube: Printer Ink, It's a SCAM
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In this video, a Canon print cartridge is opened up and revealed not to contain the meagre 11.9 ml (0.4 fl oz) of ink it is advertised. The proposed solution is to buy a printer designed to be manually refilled with bottles of ink (such as the featured Epson EcoTank ET-2850), though it has only been tested briefly.
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I'm also using a brother with ink tanks. So far, very happy. I noticed it auto cleans the heads every other day around noon or so, without asking. So far really happy with its performance, although the Linux implementation for the scanner leaves to be desired, and the windows version is also hit or miss.
Only thing I would change is I would have bought the one with the feeder scanner. Scanning a multipage document is a pita. Mine doesn't automatically clean the heads. I have to tell mine to do it. And it gives me a warning that it wastes ink if you do it unnecessarily. Mine is old though. I got it when they were brand new. Maybe they changed some things. But maybe look into it? If you don't use it that often it might be worth changing the setting to make it not do that automatically (if possible) and just do it when you use it. But, like I said I use mine ony a few times a year. Your use case may be different and they may have changed the way it cleans/flushes the heads.
Yeah i have the one with the doc feeder. One thing they don't tell you is that while yeah, you can print double sided no problem, the doc feeder is single-sided no matter what.