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My (now) wife was shocked that I didn't own a printer when we met. I explained to her why I don't have one and told her that if she wanted a printer in the house, that she was welcome to get one but I wouldn't support it in any way. We still don't have a printer.
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nullfunction posted:My (now) wife was shocked that I didn't own a printer when we met. I explained to her why I don't have one and told her that if she wanted a printer in the house, that she was welcome to get one but I wouldn't support it in any way. I had this exact same conversation but she did actually buy a printer that mostly collects dust on top of my desk. It's used so infrequently that half the time when she tries to print some random rear end thing the heads are dried up. I did admittedly show her how to clean the heads and try to recover the cartridge but other than that one time I haven't touched the loving thing and never will
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Feb 6, 2019 19:42
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I bought a BW laser printer for home. We are still using the factory toner cartridge 10 years later.
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Feb 6, 2019 19:44
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I needed a document scanner to pursue my dream of not having paper, and got a laser MFP because it cost the same as an equivalent stand-alone scanner, and also had a laser printer attached. Page count after a year is <50 pages and I'm still on the starter toner.
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Feb 6, 2019 19:50
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Nuclearmonkee posted:It's used so infrequently that half the time when she tries to print some random rear end thing the heads are dried up.
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Feb 6, 2019 19:52
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The Fool posted:I bought a BW laser printer for home.  Same here, I bought a refurbished LaserJet 4+ back in 2004 and it's getting a bit light and spotty but still prints on the cartridge I got with it.
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Feb 6, 2019 19:53
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Had a LaserJet 4050n for about a decade that I paid £20 for and never changed the toner on. Gave it away when I wanted some space back.
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Feb 6, 2019 20:01
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I picked up a HP LaserJet 3330 from the company I worked for 15 years ago. They were going to throw it in the trash because it was "slow". drat thing is a workhorse, I don't use it much, but when I do it tends to be a big job (tax returns). It has never failed me, and I've replaced the toner cartridge exactly once.
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Feb 6, 2019 20:18
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I bought my parents a Brother MFP (DCP-1000) many many years ago. Its so old now the entire machine has turned a dark yellow due to UV exposure. They are on the 2nd cartridge. The toners for it are are dead cheap.. Only around $8 since they are nothing but a plastic bottle full of toner. Its driver support spans all the way from NT4, 95, 98, etc.. up to Windows 10. Pretty sure the drivers for it have been built in since XP.
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Feb 6, 2019 21:28
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ilkhan posted:This is why laser printers exist. And are better. I think it was a craigslist special for like  and I was intentionally not part of the printer selection process beyond saying "we don't need a printer"
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Feb 6, 2019 22:56
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Lexmark MS610dn over here. Somewhat overkill for house needs, but I print out my tax returns to have a paper record so it's useful for doing that in a timely fashion. Other than that, it's mostly used for print-at-home tickets for shows and stupid poo poo like that. I think I put another ream of paper in it last year, after 5 years of owning it? (Also handy that it takes an entire ream at once). (yes yes much like your mom, hilarious)
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Feb 6, 2019 23:18
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I picked up a brother 3170 a year ago after needing to buy a new ink cartridge practically every time we had a print job, and it's great. The only maintenance is a firmware update I installed last week. E: We go through several reams a year, but that is more due to my kids swiping the paper for coloring.
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Feb 6, 2019 23:43
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this thread posted:"we love printers" disgusting. Thom and the Heads fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Feb 7, 2019 01:06
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Thom and the Heads posted:disgusting. No, we love laserjets, because they're reliable and don't break if you let them go unused for a week. Inkjets can burn and die.
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Feb 7, 2019 02:15
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I haven't owned a printer since I moved out of my parents' place for college, nearly 20 years. The one time I had to print something when I didn't have access to work printers and needed it right then, I sent it to UPS. I paid two dollars for three copies of full color of something I only needed one copy of in monochrome, so that I would meet their minimum. I picked it up ten minutes later.
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Feb 7, 2019 02:21
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There is a printer on my desk, hooked up, that works, and I still take a flash drive to the library a block away if I need to print anything. I only even own it because it was free and is a printer/scanner combo, and I needed a scanner for old photos. The ink cart in it is out, new ones are like $60. I considered buying one initially, and any possibility of me giving Epson a single dime ever again was obliterated when I hooked it up and discovered their shitware driver tries to lock out scanning if the ink cartridge is empty or removed. Photoshop bypasses it somehow so it works, but that's a permanent dealbreaker. Paying the library a dime the ~4 times a year I need to print anything for the remainder of my natural lifespan will cost less than that loving cartridge.
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Feb 7, 2019 02:42
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Got a Brother BW laser that I picked up out of a dumpster. Still using the toner cart that was in it at the time. In short, Inkjets are for fools.
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Feb 7, 2019 02:43
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Even I don't have an inkjet.
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Feb 7, 2019 02:49
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I don’t even own a printer...
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Feb 7, 2019 02:50
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I didn't realize that when I got married, I'd be signing up for a lifetime of end user support for my wife's parents. I didn't know people could be so bad at technology and I have literally had to explain to people that physically moving the mouse around is how you move the cursor on the screen, and pressing down on the front-left or front-right side actuates a button that performs an action.
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Feb 7, 2019 03:13
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nullfunction posted:My (now) wife was shocked that I didn't own a printer when we met. I explained to her why I don't have one and told her that if she wanted a printer in the house, that she was welcome to get one but I wouldn't support it in any way. My wife and I have a printer but refuse to use it. I just go to FedEx/Kinkos to print out my taxes once a year and it costs me like $2. She at least is smart enough to refill the carts at Costco, but still hasn't caught onto the idea of being printerless. I should just buy a nice laserjet MFP but honestly I'd rather spend the $100 on beer instead.
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Feb 7, 2019 04:19
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The Fool posted:Even I don't have an inkjet. 
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Feb 7, 2019 04:28
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Printers: Inconvenient devices attached to useful scanners
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Feb 7, 2019 05:04
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I had a Canon laserprinter that I bought second-hand in 2004 or so for €25. The drivers only went up to Vista 32bit so at some point I used a Linux laptop to print from it. I only got rid of it last year when the drum started to go. Never even replaced the toner.
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Feb 7, 2019 08:28
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Heners_UK posted:Printers: Inconvenient devices attached to useful scanners Not emptyquoting.
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Feb 7, 2019 11:33
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Heners_UK posted:Printers: Inconvenient devices attached to useful scanners
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Feb 7, 2019 13:12
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I just use office lens to scan documents. I haven't had a printer in a while.
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Feb 7, 2019 13:29
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I just hired a guy to run cat6 cable to the attic, because I couldn't get it past the last bend after trying for two days.  Wife still complains about the Wifi repeater being poo poo, and refuses any troubleshooting on why she can't just connect to the main Wifi AP.
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Feb 7, 2019 13:34
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We have a printer because the wife can't print personal stuff at her work and the kids need to occasionally print out stuff for school. It's mainly used by my daughter who prints out coloring pages. My family knows how much I hate doing tech support at home, and I've trained them to do all the preliminary troubleshooting themselves. The wife is popular with her works IT staff because of that.
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Feb 7, 2019 14:06
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Merijn posted:Wife still complains about the Wifi repeater being poo poo, and refuses any troubleshooting on why she can't just connect to the main Wifi AP. That's because WiFi repeaters are poo poo. The best answer is a proper wired multi-AP system like UniFi or similar, or if that's not an option then a "mesh" system where the remote units have dedicated backhaul radios. Repeaters try to use the same radio for devices and backhaul, which is obviously a lot cheaper but also means each hop inherently has a 50+% loss in capacity.
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Feb 7, 2019 15:48
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I bought a floor model workgroup Samsung Color MFP for less than $250 from Fry's, and it's still running off the toner it had in it and it was used for demos.
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Feb 7, 2019 18:13
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Super Slash posted:or I could just take a good picture with my phone" Had to sell my beloved scanner/hated printer for space. When I can't be bothered to go to work to scan, ScanBot to the rescue!
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Feb 7, 2019 18:56
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nullfunction posted:My (now) wife was shocked that I didn't own a printer when we met. I explained to her why I don't have one and told her that if she wanted a printer in the house, that she was welcome to get one but I wouldn't support it in any way. I told my wife not to buy a printer, told her why, she still bought some HP cheapo thing that's probably better off being used for target practice; it worked fine for like a month, then started having issues; the thing has sat basically unused for ~2 years since. I used the scanner function once a month ago to save myself a 10 minute drive, of course I did this in secret so I didn't get endless poo poo about it. MF_James fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Feb 7, 2019 20:53
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Did I miss printerchat? I have a lovely HP LaserJet that I bought in 2005. I have bought maybe 3 toner cartridges in those 14 years, and that includes my wife and I literally applying to hundreds of jobs (back when you had to send a paper cover letter and resume) back in the day. My daughter managed to drop something on the printer and break its document tray but otherwise it's been an unstoppable workhorse for ages.
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Feb 7, 2019 21:01
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HP laserjets used to be indestructible. The laser jet IIIs and 5s from the mid 90s were built like tanks, and a lot of them are still running today.
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Feb 7, 2019 22:17
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Entropic posted:HP laserjets used to be indestructible. The laser jet IIIs and 5s from the mid 90s were built like tanks, and a lot of them are still running today. The last job I had that involved any kind of printer-touching was over decade ago, and we had five or six LJ4s, each over 250,000 pages through them when I started. I'm absolutely convinced they're still running somewhere today (the company has long since gone out of business). The only good(ish) printer. 
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Feb 7, 2019 22:23
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Entropic posted:HP laserjets used to be indestructible. The laser jet IIIs and 5s from the mid 90s were built like tanks, and a lot of them are still running today. There is a laser jet 5 sitting on a table at a biomass power plant i support (I don't support the printer, the plant). That loving thing is filled with conductive ash and all kinds of poo poo and the outside looks like it was thrown down a burning mountainside. I have seen them "service" it by having a guy come over to blow it out with compressed air. Still works and the local guy just installs a maintenance kit from time to time.
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Feb 7, 2019 22:24
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Forever praying for an end to the war between printer consolidation and printers as status symbols.
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Currently live with the inlaws and my wife's father worked 15 years as a printer repair technician . Plus side, I don't do printer support. Downside, there are a dozen partially working network printers around the house that he won't give me the password for so I can try and fix their config issues. As it stands my wife can't connect to any of them, I can connect to one brother printer that nobody else can and my mother-in-law can connect to an HP that occasionally prints network configs on its own. I'm thinking DNS.
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