Heck with a shovel, you could get by with a broom and dust pan.

 

I am usually an HP only guy... but recently got the new Brother that does not use cartridges, It has tanks you fill up.... and supposed to last a year each time. My kids are constantly printing $4!t, so this is truly an "INKvestment" as Brother calls it. I would've easily spent 180 on cartridges since I got this. It's on sale right now for 150 on Amazon.... https://amzn.to/4jT0Snb

 

BTW, are any of you Linux users? I put Linux Mint on a little PC to use on my TV, and I can't figure out mounting drives. It keeps saying it can't find /etc/fstab when I try to mount my WD MyCloud.

 

Can't help you on the Linux question, White.

I agree on getting a printer that uses tanks rather than cartridges. Cartridges are a racket. I have a color laser printer that does all of my heavy lifting. I refill the toner carts myself which saves a ton of cash. Occasionally one will crap out and I need to replace it. I usually by refurbs, and have have little problem.

 

I buy hundreds of refurb'd toner cartridges per year for work. I usually have 4 or 5 bad per year. There's a local guy that I get them through, and he just exchanges them for me if anything goes wonky.

 

I don't have Mint but, see if you can install Disks and gParted. I believe Disks will help you mount it and other disk related. gParted will do the same thing but, will allow you to partition if needed.

 

Oh yes.... I'll need to install that. As I recall, that's the Linux version of "Disk Management" in Windows.

I don't know if it will let me "map" a drive, but I'll see. I use the term "map" because that's what I know it as in Windows.

Thanks Blue!

 

Screw all that...rather have one that works when needed, far more important.. I'll pay a little extra, but it's really not bad imo. Have to print quite a bit unfortunately.

 

I haven't used either one but, when I was building my Linux laptop the guy that was helping me said to install those. So far, every drive (USB and SD cards for trail cams) I have plugged in have mounted just fine. He said to use them if for some reason the system doesn't automatically mount or recognize them.

Could also be that the drive is in a format that Mint doesn't recognize and won't mount it. Those tools will at least tell you if it is seeing something plugged in.

 

If you print a fair amount, laser and tank-based inkjet have much lower cost-per-page than traditional cart-based inkjet. Laser has the added benefit of being almost 100% waterproof (paper-dependant) right off the printer.