I'm happy to spend a chunk to ensure that I have a quality airprint printer, but I'd also like to avoid annoying price tags for ink. Any friendly suggestions?
Most name brand ink cartridges will have generic copies which are cheaper, here (Australia) there are outlets at most shopping centres.
You could of course just buy the different inks and refill your cartridges......you will find instructions on how to do this for all the different cartridges on the net. Most printers can detect this though and you will receive a warning that doing this may void the warranty on your printer.....up to you here.
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