if you see a girl on the subway carting home printers...

I have an Epson Stylus C84 printer which originally cost $100, and came with a full set of ink cartridges. Replacing those ink cartridges retail costs something like $68 if I were to buy them all at once.

My printer, for whatever reason, possibly due to my use of non-Epson compatible cartridges, has stopped printing in color. It has therefore occurred to me that it might be superior to just buy a new printer altogether rather than try to replace this thing, and get new ink.

So then it occurred to me that I could maybe get a used printer, which, if it had ink, would totally be a steal.

After viewing the options on Craigslist, I think it would totally be cheaper to buy someone's old printer every time I run out of ink than it would be to ever buy a new ink cartridge.

I'm just going to run around town buying $20 printers half-full of ink.