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The Dreams of Printers (thelemmy.club)
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waterandsilver: crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it. water and silver: i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage. in-the-drowning-deep: I met a printer early in my IT career that did not want to be a printer. it sat in a school reprographics room, sullenly chewing any job it was fed - if it deigned to notice them at all. then one day, a miracle occurred. an exhausted physics teacher, instead of punching in 12 for the number of copies she wanted of the 30-page booklet she had made for her A-level physics class, punched in 1200. and that printer camt o life. this print job was its moment, its magnum opus! it WOULD NOT be parted from it, no matter what we did, until we physically unplugged it from the wall, by which time it had printed almost 200 copies. moral of the story: no printer wants to be a printer unless you also do not want it to be a printer for a bit. netherworldpost: printers do not want to be printers because they want to be problems
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[–] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Black and white laser printers connected to a network cable have given me the least amount of pain.

Color inkjet connected via WiFi? Just the thought angers me.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Just saved a few printers from the recycling pile. One was a brother Ethernet connected BW laser, with auto duplexing. Currently set up at home, replacing my hp WiFi BW laser with manual duplexing.

    I am pleased.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    I bought a brother color laser printer for 20€ used once. It came with almost full (clone) toner cartridges and already had 73k pages on its print counter.

    Today it has over 80k pages on its print counter and the toner that came with it is still not empty.

    I occasionally need to open it to remove a stuck piece of paper, and the print quality is not the greatest because it desperately needs a replacement drum, but I'll keep running it until I am no longer able to repair it

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I bought a Brother B/W laser printer with a USB-A connector about a decade ago. It ran through just over a full box (2500 sheets) of A4 paper on it's preinstalled demo-toner before I needed to insert the full toner that came with it. The most work I ever had to do on it was when I tried to print on slightly-too-thick paper and it decided that it would rather make confetti instead. Spent an hour pulling out individual fibers of paper, and it never acted up again.

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