Who has the longest running inkjet printer?

[turbguy]

I'll start.

I still use a Canon MP730 (purchased new in 2003). Thanx to The Hat for providing two new print heads (I still have one spare)! It is used daily for at least a handful of primarily household printing tasks.

I have changed the print head once, changed/cleaned the "diapers" twice (THAT"S a real chore), and have used refill inks in the same carts over and over again (although I've had one cart fail and required replacement).

I estimate it has run through several dozen of reams of plain paper. I use "quite mode" exclusively, to reduce print head duty (it prints slower in that mode).

The expense of home printing for me is a function of paper cost, not the ink.

It still prints under Windows 10 (don't know about Windows 11 yet). The fax function still works, but scanning seems to be lost under Windows 10.

Anyone else still running one so old (21 YEARS)?

 

[The Hat]

I still use a Canon MP730 (purchased new in 2003). Thanx to The Hat for providing two new print heads (I still have one spare)! It is used daily for at least a handful of primarily household printing tasks.

Nice to hear they went to a good home..

 

[The Hat]

Anyone else still running one so old (21 YEARS)?

I have a 2010 i9950 A3 Canon, but I don’t know how long more it’s going to last because I gave away my last print head to @Redbrickman for his Pro 9000, his printer was a lot newer than mine.. It sort of made sense at the time..

I also have a Brother1240 laser printer since 2000, this one was the very first USB Brother laser made, it can also be connected by parallel cable ? as well, but these printers tend to last for ever.. I also have a 2001 Samsung laser..

 

[PeterBJ]

My oldest printer is an HP DJ930 of the Windows 98 era. It is not in daily use but fully functional. It works with Windows 10 without problems.

 

[jimbo123]

can't beat 2003, but have a few old ones that are still printing fine, also easy to refill

- MX700(2007)
- MP980(2008)
- MX870(2010)
- PRO-100(2013)

also have several similar-aged backups stored as well. many were purchased as canon refurbished bought for $59, $69, as low as $35 for the 980s

J

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• Active Printers: MX700(2007), MP980(2008), MX870(2010), PRO-100(2013)
• Stored Printers: IP4500, MX700, MX860, MX870, MP980
• Past Printers: MP830
• Method: German Durchstich Method
• Ink: Hobbicolors, then OCP, now ASPEN
• Misc: Squeeze bottles - so much easier than syringes

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

• Stored Printers: IP4500, MX700, MX860, MX870, MP980

Printer hoarding was already a subject in the forum quite some time ago

https://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/introducing-hansteis.11138/post-93654

I dumped my 20 year old Epson Pro 7600 about half a year ago and have an Epson SC-T3100X on order which is supposed to be delivered just before Christmas.

It could not just be of interest looking for the oldest printer but that printer which runs the most pages with the first printhead, I'm doing 60 947 pages with an L805.