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Hello, printer driver developer here. I hate you all

Brother brand Laser Printer, gentleman. Only printer I'd ever touch

Back in my day. Printers printed in dots. And that's the way we liked it.

Put cabled in. And it worked.

And it was so satisfying ripping the side holes off.

Why tf do printers even need drivers? Where do they have to go? Why can't they get there by themselves?

printer is one odd bunch of computing output devices

when other types of output devices (such as monitor display, hdmi, usb, etc) evolves and improved over decades, printer is bring so much little into the mix

Quote me after dealing with print drivers acting up and spooler service crashes for the nth time that day (also worked in it support for several years):

"We can land men on the moon, but somehow getting a printer, a technology that has existed litteraly since before computers had screens, to work is still complete and utter black magic...!"

Printers are proof there's a God and that it thrives on our suffering.

I never noticed, but it looks like the guy who took the photo got sprayed too.

pc load letter?

#1 reason to go paperless at the office lol

I literally go to the copy place now and tell everyone I "don't know how" to work on printers.

Life is too short.

Multifunction-Printers are even worse. If you got a decent one by chance, after 5 odd years the integrated server gets wonky and the usb controller starts randomizing MAC addresses, so you have to setup it anew each time. Those things are haunted!

Printers are the worst!

We have central printing with color Kyoceras on each floor, with black and white as default preset (pushed via GPO) we managed to decrease our printing expenses by 80%

so we have an uncovered smiling cop pepper-spraying and a dude with a full protective mask and gas type filters turning head and closing eyes. :) Is it only me who find this pic weird.

Hey it's me zebra...🔥🔥🔥🔥 oopsie