Our awesome new monochromatic printer!
(our new printer posing with SnowBound, the bondage snowman.)
Our Epson printer was costing too much to run, and was sort of dying. Mainly, I hate it because most printers that can print color do this really sleazy thing: They mix color ink in with the black even when you’re just printing black. It’s how they make money. You can undo this in the preferences, but it undoes itself. Fuggin’ thieves. I figured out that our old printer cost 11 cents a page to print black text. I NEVER print color, and every couple months, still had to buy the three expensive color cartridges along with the black cartridges. The printer won’t print if any of the four cartridges are empty.
Our awesome new monochromatic printer is a Brother HL-2040. It ONLY does black ink, and does it better than the color printer did black. It is loud, and when on, makes the studio lights flicker, but we kinda like that. It’s fun. And we turn it off when we’re not using it.
It costs only one cent per page to print black text, and it’s a lot better made than our old one. We kept the old one because it also has a scanner, and we’ll just use it for that.
We got the Brother HL-2040 on NewEgg.com for 70 bucks with shipping. And we ordered it yesterday, and it arrived by UPS today, LESS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER WE ORDERED IT! And we didn’t even pay for rush shipping. (To be fair, NewEgg is in Orange County, not far away, but I’ve NEVER ordered anything before and gotten it the next day. Ever.
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:06 am
Cant you just replace the 3 color one with a black one? I think I did that with my old HP printer.
Anyway, my first online purchase 6 years ago was a Samsung digital camera from circuit city, and it arrived on my doorstep by the next morning.
I Couldnt believe it… So I’m a complete slave to the web ever since!
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:45 am
Funny, yesterday I ordered a Brother HL-2070N from the fine folks at Newegg. I’ve never had a problem with their customer service, having spent probably $2k+ in the past year for work and home.
The HL-20 line got great reviews — I spent about 2 hours reading reviews before picking my printer. Glad you like yours.