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Printers are the peak of asshole design
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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If you can afford it, cough up the money for a laser printer. I've had mine for years and only changed the ink once. So much better than ink jet printers, which are a total scam
I switched to a Lazer printer last year and damn so so so so much better than that fucking hp inkjet printer I had.
uhm, AkcHualLy, pushes glasses up it's spelled laser, not Lazer. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation. LASER. 🤓
uhm, you forgot to also point out that laser printers use toner, not ink.
a later printer
Elder printers are well worth the sacrifices one must make to acquire one.
Tried to fire up an older HP monochrome laser printer that is still working perfectly.
The problem? Windows 11 has no drivers, and it literally cannot be used at all. Not through Wi-Fi (old drivers, too), not through the USB port, or my shared through my router.
I mean, seriously, this stuff should work on a generic print driver until the end of time, but nope.
Hot news, linux is incredibly compatible with printers. CUPS is very well designed. With relatively little technical knowledge you could probably plug a raspberry pi into virtually any old printer and get it running with the Pi as a print server sharing it with the network.
Never thought I'd see the day when it's easier to get a printer working in Linux than Windows. How the turntables.
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This thing still frightens me and I have no clue how is it legal.
Holy shit, I had no idea. That is crazy.
Did you know some professional photocopiers have 0,5 or 1 tb cache drives?
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Okay, thank you for ruining my optimism a bit more. Seriously, can't even trust a printer.
Enshittified by capitalism
Who TF just leaves a printer on the street and just expects someone else to get rid of it for them?!
Hahaha. In Germany many people put their not used anymore items just outside of their houses with signs: "to give away". I've found furnitures, books, washing machine??? :D
I've heard stories about people putting out old appliances and furniture out on the curb with a "free" sign. It sits out there for 4 weeks. Then they put out a sign that says "$20. inquire within" And an hour later it was stolen.
That’s a 5head play, I’m using that next time I have trouble getting rid of something.
Lmao humans.
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I mean, if it’s a functional printer and they didn’t want it, that’s an easy way to give it to somebody else to use.
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I live in a rural town and people put items like this in front of their homes all the time. I have fixed washers, dryers, etc and had things picked up. If it's there on trash day it gets hauled off.
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It's commonly understood, at least where I live in the States, that if you are getting rid of something that still works you can leave it out on the curb for somebody else to take for free, sometimes with a note saying "Free" but usually without it.
When I was young and struggling I got most of my furniture that way. I still even have some of it
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Glad to see someone freed up the printer, but gosh I wish we could have open source printer firmware, like DD-WRT for routers.
it'd require that all OEM's agree to specific standards and they won't because being closed source = $$$.
likewise why no one is reverse engineering printers, there's no $$$ in it
The demonic summoning ritual involved in bringing a printer to life is awfully hard to replicate using non-proprietary methods.
I wonder how feasible an open source printer would be, like the open source 3d printers.
3D print a plate with your document on it. Dip the plate in ink and press it to a sheet of paper.
The latest update to the printing press: adding a 3d printer to print new plates, and a recycler to reuse that plastic once you've printed your page.
Uses 10x the energy, recycled plastic gets junked because of ink contamination, but still 25% cheaper than running an hp inkjet because you can use bulk ink and don't have to keep replacing your dried up CMY inks to stop it from refusing to print your black and white document.
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We had an HP Inkjet printer for over 5 years, one of the older ones. Ink was expensive, but tbh everything else worked great.
Then we got our new HP Inkjet. Genuinely the worst machine I have ever owned. I can't fucking scan anything without an HP account, and even then it hardly works. I'm going to buy a Brother laser printer soon, as soon as I bring it home that HP printer is going to be smashed to bits in my driveway.
Yes please. HP printers are the dystopia we were warned of. You can't print with the dumb thing even if ink is in it if you don't keep paying for the ink subscription.
We use brother printers at work and they're 10/10. Even with a fresh windows install they just work.
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If you do a lot of printing, the Epson Ecotank printer is really good. My wife goes through 2-3 boxes of paper per year. I refill the tanks 2 times per year. A full set of bottles is $45-50.
It's nice that the are going directly opposite that HP.
It's nice that the are going directly opposite that HP.
Yep! It's pretty surprising how many people replace their broken device with the same brand that burned them IMO
Be like OP! Speak with your wallets 🤨
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Hmmm, maybe I've been on the internet too long but the handwriting doesn't look like it was written on a vertical pole. It looks like it was easy to write
Just guessing, but she may be a professional pole dancer with a particular skill set
I'd definitely watch that version of Taken, especially if still stars Liam Neeson 😂
As the professional pole dancer, of course.
Naturally.
HP Smart is complete ass lmao. I have an HP laser printer that prints well, but it's always a headache to start printing anything wirelessly from my laptop. Can only ever rely on the ol' USB cable.
I am really confused, becuase HP Smart Scanner takes like 2-3 min to Scan a page, GNOMs build in Scanner takes 3-5 seconds with the same printer. Like how is your software this bad.
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If only our old HP (which's server died years ago) wouldn't rename itself randomly on USB.
But seriously, get a Raspi or similiar and create a printserver. Saver too, than HP's built in.
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Never ever buy an HP printer.
Their hardware is mostly brilliant but the software (drivers, DRM) should make it a stop-sale for most people. It is such a shame that what used to be an incredible engineering company has turned to such shit because of executive incompetence and greed.
Let's be honest, probably why the guy was throwing it out lol
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And a good day to you sir
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