True, but does it need to make mysterious clunking noises for three minutes before it starts?

My mom ran the mimeograf room in a large high school in Brooklyn. It was so awesome going to work with her and seeing the machines.

Similarly, optical drives have ever worked. what a miracle.

When I started in Desktop Support my super power was equipment suddenly working when I showed up. I used to joke that it was because they were afraid of me, and even printers stopped acting up eventually.

I like to think that they could sense that I wouldn't hesitate to go all Office Space on them.

The first printer that made me audibly yell "what the fuck" was a Konica Minolta. Not because it was actually malfunctioning, but because of the absolute clusterfuck that is the settings page on its web-server.

They very clearly want you to pay them for either management software or maintenance.

Yeah I work for a commercial print shop and I would rate our printers on a scale of "Useless piece of expensive shit" and "can we please just get through until my lunch break when I'm not so hungover?"

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.

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.

I just had to replace my 2170W because the nic finally died and I couldn't find a functional driver for a Linux print server.

But I found the HL-L2380DW for $10 in the Goodwill Bins that got donated because it ran out of toner.