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Is 'some stuff' definitely colour?
If not, get a cheap b&w laser printer and use your phone to take a photo of anything you need to scan -
suitable replacement for home use?
We've had good luck with Epson combo devices, and their drivers are about 9000 times better than HP's
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A growing trend are printers that lock users out of non-original ink by firmware updates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131 (that's Brother, but apparently it applies to others).
The problem really is inkjets... the ink makes way too much money, so the companies are incentivised to try and take that money.
If you can find a small laser printer... this is far far better. Offices have successfully pressured prices of laser consumables to be pretty damn low (given the efficiency the same price point as ink will go significantly further).
The only problem with laser is that as they don't make as much on the consumables, they charge the true cost of the hardware (inkjet printers are subsidised by the ink).
If you've got the space and can stretch to a laser printer then the costs are very low over the long-term. I've had a laser printer for 12 years now, only replaced the black toner once, and the thing is still going fine (it's a full colour laser, and it's been used throughout my partner's PhD which meant sometimes printing a whole ream of A4 at a time)... the downside, my word it is a large device (I had a piece of furniture made to hide it!).
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HP Office Jet 6500A Plus no longer recognising even supposedly genuine HP black ink cartridges.
Any recommendation for suitable replacement for home use?
Student son needs to print out some stuff on a regular basis,
me seldom,
but
I did find the scanning function useful.