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im gonna 3D print a tiny printer and flush it down the toilet!!!
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Aug 4, 2019 17:08
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Same but a little toilet and give your printer a dang swirlie in it
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Aug 4, 2019 17:26
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Big Beef City posted:Am I the only one that thinks 3D printing is just boring trash for idiots? That's because the only times you're exposed to 3D printing is via forums nerds probably. quote:3D printing is being used to replicate patient-specific organs that are used for practice to prep before the actual complicated operations take place. The application is by far much better and accurate than only looking at X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs. Ultimately, this method has proven to speed up procedures and minimize patient trauma. quote:3D printing applications in dentistry has helped in a variety of different ways from orthodontics to general dentistry. The different dental areas currently integrating 3D printing are fabricating customized and accurate braces, dental restorations, castable crowns, dental bridges, and denture frameworks and bases. quote:With metal 3D printing, most surgical tools and medical devices can be 3D printed. Some of the main surgical tools being 3D printed are forceps, haemostats, scalpel handles and clamps, and other sterile tools.
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Aug 4, 2019 17:33
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3D printing is cool in potential but also still really janky looking right now, it only seems good for more plastic trinket junk at the consumer level. The ISS 3D printer prototype being an exception
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Aug 4, 2019 18:19
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lmao just buy a good printer, idiots *link to a $300+ inkjet with $100 cartridges*
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Aug 4, 2019 20:32
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Big Beef City posted:Am I the only one that thinks 3D printing is just boring trash for idiots? The only ones that aren't total garbage cost like tens of thousands of dollars and require a team of techs on standby to adjust and fix them constantly, so basically yeah they are worthless to normal people
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Aug 4, 2019 20:40
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Ehh that's not entirely true anymore. Higher ender printers like the ultimaker 3 ($2000~) are really reliable as long as you use quality filament. Even a $200 ender 3 is reliable if you use good filament, though will require more ongoing tinkering.
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Aug 4, 2019 22:14
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I got a black and white laser printer and it works fairly well. It even gives a warning when toner is low so I can replace it before it runs out mid-print. It's wireless enabled so it connects to our home network and appears on all our devices. Inkjet printers are probably still running old technology prone to breakage and problems.
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Aug 4, 2019 22:25
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Wireless printers were made by the devil himself.
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Aug 4, 2019 22:36
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it probably doesnt really help that printing at the software level doesnt appear to have changed very much in like 30 years. its still all CUPS/post script/PCL6 and spooling and other poo poo that never seems to change. like why does a printer have to make a 45kb PDF into a 30MB spool file to print it out?
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Aug 5, 2019 03:20
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*wonders idly how long i can reasonably stretch loving about on the internet by claiming i'm trying to print something but the printer isn't cooperating*
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Aug 5, 2019 03:22
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*makes it two weeks and is promoted to the c-level*
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Aug 5, 2019 03:22
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I bought this HP4ML in 1994. https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-laserjet-4ml-printer-monochrome-laser/ That loving thing was perfect. Installed easily, never choked, never jammed, was reliable as gently caress. It was fast, for the time. No other printer I've ever used has come close. Peak Printer was 25 years ago.
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Aug 5, 2019 22:16
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SPACE HOMOS posted:I got a week of in school suspension when I was in high school for printing out "I LOVE ANTHRAX" 69 times on the computer lab's printer. this is a violation of your civil liberties though, you should sue your school district
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Aug 5, 2019 22:26
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Moridin920 posted:That's because the only times you're exposed to 3D printing is via forums nerds probably. it's good to know that next time I, personally, need to do my own surgery, I can 3d print all my tools. i might even have to go after that big red pumping thing in my chest next time, who knows.
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Aug 13, 2019 17:27
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goddamn bby let me get that dot matrix side hole feed
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Aug 16, 2019 02:00
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SPACE HOMOS posted:I got a week of in school suspension when I was in high school for printing out "I LOVE ANTHRAX" 69 times on the computer lab's printer. One of my friends in school printed out some huge number of copies of a picture of MA$E and the text "you've got a PhD, a Player Hatin Degree!" on the school library computer. They didn't seem to know how to cancel it and when the printer ran out of paper they would just put more paper in and it would keep printing. For the rest of the year all the handouts and scrap paper had that picture on the back side.
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Aug 16, 2019 13:59
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Original_Z posted:One of my friends in school printed out some huge number of copies of a picture of MA$E and the text "you've got a PhD, a Player Hatin Degree!" on the school library computer. They didn't seem to know how to cancel it and when the printer ran out of paper they would just put more paper in and it would keep printing. For the rest of the year all the handouts and scrap paper had that picture on the back side. That's putting your fuckin' mark 
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Aug 16, 2019 15:29
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The printer is the computers butt
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Aug 16, 2019 15:30
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AND WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH AIRLINE FOOD, amirite
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Aug 16, 2019 15:31
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Nastyman posted:The printer is the computers butt
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Aug 16, 2019 17:41
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3D print DEEZ NUTS
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Aug 16, 2019 19:10
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I'd rather pay $50 for a slap across the nuts than buy another inkjet cartridge.
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Aug 22, 2019 21:38
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Original_Z posted:One of my friends in school printed out some huge number of copies of a picture of MA$E and the text "you've got a PhD, a Player Hatin Degree!" on the school library computer. They didn't seem to know how to cancel it and when the printer ran out of paper they would just put more paper in and it would keep printing. For the rest of the year all the handouts and scrap paper had that picture on the back side. Incredible
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Aug 22, 2019 22:55
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A couple days ago we needed to scan some documents to email to my parents. I just moved and have one of those HP Envy printers with a scanner flatbed. So we got it out of the box, hooked up the cables and I started setting up the wifi on it. Found the network, loaded paper, ready to go... My computer refused to find it, the printer didn't know what was happening. So I was like "gently caress this" and grabbed a usb cable for it. Mind you, this isn't even a common USB cable, it's one of those ones with a square connector at the end. Also the printer doesn't even come with one of those cables because "you can just print over wifi!" So i found one and plugged it in directly to my computer. As soon as it got plugged in the loving printer just immediately killed my internet connection. Not even a case of my computer losing wifi signal or anything because it's plugged in with an ethernet cable, no it just straight up killed the internet connection. We just scanned what we needed anyway because I didn't need internet to do that and then I unplugged it thinking the internet would come back. Nope. This loving printer is so messed up that it just completely and totally killed the internet on my PC and I had to reboot. In short, gently caress HP and gently caress printers. Ink costs are a scam, use damp cotton swabs to get your lovely HP ink running again when it inevitably dries out after 4 days of not being used.
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Aug 23, 2019 01:09
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It's called the Envy because you will Envy your friends who bought non-HP computers
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Aug 23, 2019 01:53
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Biohazard posted:Large format plotters are even worse. In the 15 years I’ve been using them on a regular basis, I’ve only encountered 1 or 2 that weren’t absolute pieces of poo poo. Most of them break down on a fairly regular basis. We have a 60” plotter they shat itself in February and still isn’t working right. The MSP we had a contract with was totally worthless and took so long to fix anything all the ink dried and now we have to replace in-warranty consumables because no one will honor the warranty!!! Faculty gotta have their posters tho
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Aug 23, 2019 02:06
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I remember being stupid in high school and in the morning trying to print a paper I'd finished late the night before but it not working. I'd come back from school with five copies of the paper waiting for me.
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Aug 23, 2019 02:08
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I got a Canon all-in-one that was fifty bucks and it’s worked fine for five years. I just never bothered to try and set up wireless because that sounds like trouble to anyone with common sense, I just use the wire with my laptop, because again, I am not a complete idiot. It is a Macintosh laptop, so as a reasonably intelligent person I fully expect it to randomly stop working one day when it updates itself to MacOS 10.69 Sierra Mist or whatever for no reason whatsoever.
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Aug 23, 2019 02:22
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The thing that baffles me is if printing weren't so awful I feel like people in general would do a lot more of it instead of swearing off printers for good. I print daily at work and it is most often spreadsheets/documents I want to hand annotate for whatever reason and I print pretty frequently at home, recipes, to do lists, return labels. I love our Brother laser at home, I don't understand why printer manufactures are so invested in selling consumables when there is no reason the market should work that way when the thing that people hate most about printers is consumables.
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Aug 23, 2019 02:23
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HP definitely makes the worst printers, without question. Their drivers page is completely loving useless, you cant get JUST a driver, you need some hosed software suite that pesters you to - get this - use their Snapfish service that is a service to print your photos elsewhere and have them mailed to you. a lot of inkjets before consumer laser printers were a thing also did not include a USB cable either so you had to buy one at the store to hook the loving thing up. I remember I had a job once to set up a HP printer onto someones wifi, and it took me like 2 hours because there is no way to actually input the wifi password, the only option was to use the WPS button connect method. For whatever reason the wifi router they had didnt like the printer and just would not establish a connection. The customer just flat out would not accept my tech-professional advice of 'its a printer, it never has to be moved, it does not need wifi. please purchase this $5 USB cable from me so I can connect it to your PC with a cable, and solve all your problems'. Apparently I was being a pushy salesman. Brother or Epson have no bullshit printers that have an easy to navigate drivers/download page should you need it that is just the PCL6/Post script driver without a bunch of bloatware as well. get one with a Network interface if you have more than 2 computers and plug it in to your router. its bullshit. Printers are bullshit. if you work in an office there is zero reason to own your own printer at home. just print poo poo out at work for free in better quality. Laslow posted:I just never bothered to try and set up wireless because that sounds like trouble to anyone with common sense, I just use the wire with my laptop, because again, I am not a complete idiot. Every device in my house that has an ethernet port and requires network access gets plugged in. If it isnt considered a 'mobile' device, it plugs in to the router/switch. poo poo, I live alone and I still have 5 devices on Wifi because they are mobile devices. I imagine a large part of issues homes experience with Wifi is because they have 5-6 family members each with a phone, tablet, laptop, game consoles and TVs and whatever the gently caress else they grant wifi access without scrutiny.
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Aug 23, 2019 04:27
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FPzero posted:A couple days ago we needed to scan some documents to email to my parents. I just moved and have one of those HP Envy printers with a scanner flatbed. So we got it out of the box, hooked up the cables and I started setting up the wifi on it. Found the network, loaded paper, ready to go... My computer refused to find it, the printer didn't know what was happening. So I was like "gently caress this" and grabbed a usb cable for it. Mind you, this isn't even a common USB cable, it's one of those ones with a square connector at the end. Also the printer doesn't even come with one of those cables because "you can just print over wifi!" So i found one and plugged it in directly to my computer. I’ve had no problems at all from my envy printer. I print from the basement even. You’re bad at touching
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Aug 23, 2019 04:53
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Nastyman posted:The printer is the computers butt 
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Aug 23, 2019 04:58
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Laserface posted:Every device in my house that has an ethernet port and requires network access gets plugged in. If it isnt considered a 'mobile' device, it plugs in to the router/switch. poo poo, I live alone and I still have 5 devices on Wifi because they are mobile devices. I imagine a large part of issues homes experience with Wifi is because they have 5-6 family members each with a phone, tablet, laptop, game consoles and TVs and whatever the gently caress else they grant wifi access without scrutiny.
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Aug 23, 2019 05:46
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Arrhythmia posted:Wireless printers were made by the devil himself. I suspect that wireless printers may actually BE the devil incarnate.
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Aug 23, 2019 12:16
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my office has a color laser and i print full page 12x18 posters with it and poo poo, owns
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Aug 23, 2019 12:57
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bring back old gbs posted:my office has a color laser and i print full page 12x18 posters with it and poo poo, owns drat! My work Xerox only prints 11x17, and not even full bleed! I gotta trim it down to 10.5x16.5... 
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Aug 23, 2019 13:24
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Kazak posted:3D printing is cool in potential but also still really janky looking right now, it only seems good for more plastic trinket junk at the consumer level. The ISS 3D printer prototype being an exception I've been involved in 3d printing and rapid prototyping for about 13 years. I've personally owned three different 3D printers, and I've overseen the purchase of 5 other 3D printers at a couple of different companies(both FDM and SLA machines) 3D printers are just a tool. For some projects they're great, and for others they're not. Most of what I do with my home printer is actually for medical design work. I've printed out model femoral implants, casings for electronic devices and a whole heap of other stuff that I get actual money for. I also use it for personal projects and stuff for the kids on occasion. I've also had a lot of stuff printed out of 17-4 stainless steel for the sake of testing surgical instrument designs on cadavers. That's technically DMLS, which is an enterprise level metal sintering additive manufacturing process but along the same line philosophically. Home 3D printers are janky as hell, and even the ones that that try to DRM everything for the sake of simplicity (looking at you, 3D systems) only make it harder to fix stuff. If you have a properly calibrated home 3D printer, you can make some cool poo poo. I usually get my machines to the point where I can use them like a 2D home printer, in that you draw up whatever you need, print it and use it. Much of what was said about 3D printing 5 years ago is hype. But, it was hype about technology that's been around in industry for over 30 years. Sadly, 95% of the population will never need a 3D printer no matter how much they want one. Honestly, unless you're a hardcore modeler, drone designer or RC guy you'll never be able to justify owning one. Just draw up your project in a free cad software and get it printed via Shapeways. You'll save a lot of money in the long run. I know, Wendy's drive thru etc etc...
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Aug 23, 2019 13:58
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Three Olives posted:I print daily at work and it is most often spreadsheets/documents I want to hand annotate for whatever reason Jesus loving christ.
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Three Olives posted:I print daily at work and it is most often spreadsheets/documents I want to hand annotate for whatever reason and I print pretty frequently at home, recipes, to do lists, return labels. Didn't realize my 70 year old coworker was GBS superstar Three Olives.
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