{"id":1237,"date":"2016-02-04T09:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T09:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartridgegreen.ie\/cms\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2016-02-04T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T10:54:41","slug":"why-you-should-never-buy-a-cheap-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartridgegreen.ie\/cms\/why-you-should-never-buy-a-cheap-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should NEVER buy a “cheap” printer!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This photo is the reason why you should NEVER<\/strong><\/em> buy a cheap inkjet printer\u2026.<\/p>\n

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But unfortunately we get people in our shops every day telling us that they bought a \u201ccheap\u201d printer but that the cartridges run out very quickly, printing only a few pages and costing almost as much as the printer to replace!<\/p>\n

To prove the false economy that is a \u201ccheap\u201d printer, we bought one from a well know electrical retailer. The printer brand was very well known and it only cost \u20ac89. It was wireless and it scanned and copied \u2013 on the face of it an affordable printer price with decent functionality. So we opened the cartridges and extracted all the ink into syringes.<\/p>\n

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Here is what we found:<\/p>\n