Frustrating short life

We actually still ink printer in operation, the 15 years old and still easily do their service (HP840C). In this quite beautiful printers there were unfortunately only 3 years. During this time, perhaps 20,000 sheets were printed, which is not much. Here can be in the newer Canon printers no longer print details, so that the duty cycle can only be estimated. The printer reported now in any case that the ink absorber is full. This error message also can no longer be reset so easily with the newer devices. Would be sent to Canon and then it would cost 90 euros. That's worth not really, especially as the print head lately from time to time causing problems. And that would also cost 80 euros again.

With earlier models, we often cracked the 100,000 mark sheet, but from year to year is worse. And the ink consumption is constant cleaning cycles more and more. Whether this is really necessary? Or go there also to artificially high ink consumption? If you previously printed regularly in older printers, stuffy never what you could and for years with good print. And that made relatively rare times cleaning cycles.

For me, this is a tragedy: From generation to generation the central features for me are getting worse. But the competitors is there probably is not much better.

Of the cost of printing one is still very low, if you do not use original ink. That's some consolation. But environmentally this is a disaster, to discard as a nearly new device again now.