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[-] dopeshark@lemmy.world 192 points 1 year ago

Printers are the peak of asshole design

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Relax4939@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago

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. 🤓

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[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

a later printer

Elder printers are well worth the sacrifices one must make to acquire one.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] maengooen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

This thing still frightens me and I have no clue how is it legal.

[-] rustonium@feddit.dk 10 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, I had no idea. That is crazy.

[-] lefixxx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Did you know some professional photocopiers have 0,5 or 1 tb cache drives?

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[-] DrQuint@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Okay, thank you for ruining my optimism a bit more. Seriously, can't even trust a printer.

[-] Retrograde@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Enshittified by capitalism

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Assholes are the printers of peak design.

FTFY

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[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

Who TF just leaves a printer on the street and just expects someone else to get rid of it for them?!

[-] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TestZero@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] timespace@lemmy.ninja 23 points 1 year ago

That’s a 5head play, I’m using that next time I have trouble getting rid of something.

[-] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Lmao humans.

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[-] qaziquza@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Man macht das, ja. Why not? One man's trash is another's treasure.

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[-] suredoood@lemmy.one 23 points 1 year ago

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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[-] AzPsycho@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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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[-] grizzzlay@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Glad to see someone freed up the printer, but gosh I wish we could have open source printer firmware, like DD-WRT for routers.

[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

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

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The demonic summoning ritual involved in bringing a printer to life is awfully hard to replicate using non-proprietary methods.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I wonder how feasible an open source printer would be, like the open source 3d printers.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

3D print a plate with your document on it. Dip the plate in ink and press it to a sheet of paper.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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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[-] MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 40 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TwoGems@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] xpinchx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

We use brother printers at work and they're 10/10. Even with a fresh windows install they just work.

[-] neumast@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I have to second this one: we had HP printers at work which just sucked, so we threw them out. After changing to brother printers everything is so easy now. They just work!

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[-] The_v@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

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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[-] rockyrikoko@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Bootheal0179@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Just guessing, but she may be a professional pole dancer with a particular skill set

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'd definitely watch that version of Taken, especially if still stars Liam Neeson 😂

[-] PownyRyda@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

As the professional pole dancer, of course.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] binchicken 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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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[-] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago
[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] LillianVS@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Let's be honest, probably why the guy was throwing it out lol

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[-] linux_user_6967@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
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[-] Drystan_Furor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

And a good day to you sir

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