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I am writing this review to confirm what everyone else has said about this HP 6700 printer wasting ink. I bought it from office max instead of from amazon, but I am writing a review to tell you some things I discovered, when trying to find out why it wasted so much ink, that other people may not know. I bought it about a year ago and for the first six months almost never used it(printed about twenty copies in black and white). during this time it would go through periods were it never got used for a month at a time, but still went through cleanings about twice a week. IT was then that I realized that the cleanings were running my ink down even when I wasn't printing anything. At this time I didn't think much of it. After that I started college and began printing much more. The first time I tried to print anything it said it was out of ink so I went and got a whole pack of new ink ($50) which was almost half of what I paid for the printer itself. after installing each cartridge separately, doing a cleaning after each install, and after about twenty minutes it was finally "full" of ink. after about a month of printing twenty copies black and white I am down to one third of color ink and half a cartridge of black ink. I was flabbergasted. how could it possibly go through so much ink. after thinking about it I realized that it had to be the ridiculous amount of self cleanings it was doing. so I looked inside to see where the ink was going. what I found was a bowl sitting over the ink head that was filled with a HUGE glob of dried up ink. when the printer does its "cleaning" (about every four pages, or twice a week if your not printing) it is really just setting there and squirting your gold priced ink into a bowl to dry up. below is a list of how HP purposely designed this printer to waste ink and rake in money for them. - goes through cleanings that completely waste your color and black ink by squirting it into a bowl hidden in your printer (this is really why color ink gets used even though you only print in b/w) - Has software that will not let you print in just black and white until you go and buy more color ink for it to pump into the bowl hidden in your printer - HP charges a stupidly ridiculous amount for their ink that you are constantly having to buy Overall in ink consumption it has used a whole set of cartridges ($50) for maybe twenty pages of prints most of which were black and white. That's at least $2.50 per page. after I run out of my current set I will be getting rid of this ink hog. Most company's now days produce poor items from China, but designing a product to purposely waste resources in order to make more money is as unethical as you can get. I will never buy a single HP item again as long as I live and neither should you.