“Or buying stuff online.”
Four ink cartridges for my Canon printer cost $22 each, $88 total, at my locally owned office supply store. But I got the same four for $4.25 each, $17 total, free shipping, from Inkfarm.com. Just sayin...
there is a small place near here that refills cartridges and sell them chep, not $4.25 but still cheaper than new. “Cartridge World” or something
I bought a contraption that feeds bulk ink into the individual canon cartridges. I buy ink by the pint, black by the quart.
When it stops roughly every 18 months, it takes some time to get it re set up but it saves the hassele of getting individual cartridges.
Before that I bought ink in bulk and refilled the cartridge with a hypodermic syringe provided with the bulk ink