On Wednesday 27 June 2018 12:42:12 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2018 schrieb William Morder: > > [...] > > I will plan to buy a laser printer somehow in the future. For the > > present, my options are limited (and I haven't explained EVERYTHING, as I > > doubt everybody wants to read my life story here). I will try to make do > > with my Brother inkjet printer (which at least *looks* shiny and > > brand-new), and figure out how to make do with refills. Over the years I > > have got pretty inventive about making stuff work that really should not > > work at all, and this is another one of those moments. > > I have a Brother MFC which works to my satisfaction with non-Brother-refill > and a chip reseter (from amazon - 1/2 liter ink + reseter for the price of > one original cardridge). That keeps the operation cost quite low. I would > not bet that it's as cheep as a laser, but on the other hand it stinks > less :-) > > > Nik Yeah, I don't need it to be great; e.g., I won't be printing out photos, nor doing end-quality work that needs to look perfect. I just need it to be "good enough", so that I can print out drafts, and print out copies of mock-up pages that I lay out. It may come to my laying out and designing the whole book by myself (as I used to do that kind of thing in days past, when people still read the printed word); but right now my goal is just to be able to imagine how the final published version ought to look on the page. I found some refill kits that have copies of the Brother cartridges; they have refill holes, and are transparent or translucent, so that you can see whether they are full or not. Also there are some web pages that tell how to reset the printer, to keep printing even when it says you need to change cartridges. Bill > > Thanks for the comments & offers of help. Even if I cannot take the > > advice, I still got some useful information about what might be my next > > move for getting a better printer. > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read list > > messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > > Please remember not to top-post: > > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting