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Hate my printer but needed it for immigration documents, now it just sits there taking up space and adding another 2 cords to the mix because the wireless just doesn't work. Im gonna try to move it into the closet but im sure the wife will need to print something as soon as I do.
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Jul 15, 2020 19:24
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SilvergunSuperman posted:A scanner seems just as useless as a printer these days, even when submitting documents you can usually just take a picture. nah, they are great for scanning 35mm negatives, especially if you have a bunch of old family poo poo you'd like to digitize. if you said fax machine though, gently caress a fax machine
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Jul 15, 2020 19:24
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zer0spunk posted:
for when you want to send someone a document, but you want it to be done badly
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Jul 15, 2020 19:25
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I do artwork, and for artwork if you want a scanner
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Jul 15, 2020 19:25
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piratepilates posted:for when you want to send someone a document, but you want it to be done badly the only people that ever ask for a fax is the government. my state's department of labor requests forms via fax like it's 1988
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Jul 15, 2020 19:28
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SilvergunSuperman posted:A scanner seems just as useless as a printer these days, even when submitting documents you can usually just take a picture. My work paid for every employee to download a $5 document scanning app for our phones. You take a picture of a piece of paper and boom PDF. Works perfectly and makes scanning receipts for expenses super easy.
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Jul 15, 2020 19:29
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Printers = tree murder won't someone please think of those sweet swwet trees (except for the ones I smoke  . )
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Jul 15, 2020 19:31
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Jim Long-un posted:let's take this device that literally precision-glues and melts individual grains of colored plastic dust onto paper eternally and cut as many corners as possible so it's prone to mechanical failure and then package it with a half-assed driver program to ensure the user spends at least half of its lifetime troubleshooting spooler errors What's the deal with Windows being completely unable to ever cancel a print queue anyway? You have to reboot the computer 95% of the time to clear it and I'll never understand why. In my teens and early 20s when I was the "tech support guy" there was nothing I hated more than helping people with printers. I currently have a wireless laser black and white printer and every time I want to wirelessly print from my laptop I have to uninstall it and reinstall it because it complains about its IP address changing or some stupid poo poo.
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Jul 15, 2020 19:32
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My favorite* printer problem is how printers are also extremely picky bastards in that there are some printer models that will only take one, and very strictly one and only one, model or designation of ink cartridges. Or that trying to buy third party cartridges causes the loving thing to cry and hiss about NON-AUTHENTIC CARTRIDGES and refuses to print because of "errors" (read: punishing people wanting to find a cheaper alternative to the ink market perpetually in a chokehold)
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Jul 15, 2020 19:35
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Jul 15, 2020 19:38
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EorayMel posted:My favorite* printer problem is how printers are also extremely picky bastards in that there are some printer models that will only take one, and very strictly one and only one, model or designation of ink cartridges. Or that trying to buy third party cartridges causes the loving thing to cry and hiss about NON-AUTHENTIC CARTRIDGES and refuses to print because of "errors" (read: punishing people wanting to find a cheaper alternative to the ink market perpetually in a chokehold) I like the ones that have X number of prints predetermined then it just stops working.
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Jul 15, 2020 19:40
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Its basically the original hardware as a service model that everyone loves so much
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Jul 15, 2020 19:40
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Pick posted:Printers are bad, except in the one way that they are good. A lot of printers come with built-in scanners, so you can always get a really cheap scanner by going to Goodwill and buying a broken printer. The scanner part almost always works. zer0spunk posted:or you can buy a decent flatbed scanner instead of having a bolted on dead printer? my canon flatbed is also from 2012 and has been a tank (and comes with a bunch of negative holders for different formats on top of it)
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Jul 15, 2020 19:48
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why buy a printer when you can just slap a piece of paper against the monitor real hard and have it transfer the image.
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Jul 15, 2020 19:49
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I just remembered the last printer thread when someone (huge gross burrito maybe?) owned a bad opinion haver by printing out the post, crumpling it up, and throwing it in the toilet.
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Jul 15, 2020 19:50
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:What's the deal with Windows being completely unable to ever cancel a print queue anyway? You have to reboot the computer 95% of the time to clear it and I'll never understand why. Go into your router settings and give the printer a static IP address.
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Jul 15, 2020 19:55
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I like the ones that have X number of prints predetermined then it just stops working. I need to print text only in black but I can’t because the yellow cartridge is empty.
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Jul 15, 2020 19:56
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What do you mean I cant print own money!
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Jul 15, 2020 19:59
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:I need to print text only in black but I can’t because the yellow cartridge is empty. how else are they supposed to add the tracking microdots
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Jul 15, 2020 20:01
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SilvergunSuperman posted:A scanner seems just as useless as a printer these days, even when submitting documents you can usually just take a picture. Useless to you, crucial equipment for us art nerds. We are the ones still using this archaic technology.
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Jul 15, 2020 20:08
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printers are useful for sheet music and making super nice glossy J-cards for your cassette mixtapes
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Jul 15, 2020 20:17
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I was on the buy a cheap crap printer train until I splurged for an HP color laser network printer for about $300, and that was 12 years ago. Still works and prints no problem even if its sat for 6 months.piratepilates posted:At this point I'm thinking it's more likely that printer woes will be solved by tablets getting cheap enough to be disposable than for the printer industry to wake up and make something not lovely. You ever watch that star trek? Not a piece of paper in sight*, they all have multiple iPads they all just throw around and give to people. Some stores have stopped printing paper tags and instead bought kindles they can stick on stuff and reuse, the future is kinda cool.
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Jul 15, 2020 20:20
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I Iove that when a printer sends an "I'm in an error state" msg to Windows 10 there's literally no way to tell Windows 10 "ok I fixed it" other than starting and stopping the spooler service in the command line. 
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Jul 15, 2020 20:21
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when I was doing IT and tech support nothing made me angrier than printers in theory they should be simple machines! you plug them into the outlet, they go beep boop, you print. In reality they were fashioned by whatever sentient remnants emerged from Satan's toilet that decided to create the single most frustrating device known to man you wanna print in black and white? That's cool. Too bad you have no red! Why does it matter? Who knows! Eat poo poo and die end user! Oh I'm sorry, I lost a TCP packet in transit? That's cool, it's now disconnected from the wireless network! Wait, I'm plugged in? Well I'm now going to block that port and pretend that I'm not connected because I hate you!
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Jul 15, 2020 20:23
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I had some really fun times earlier this year constantly troubleshooting the new HP laser printers at the office. They would just stop printing or jam almost daily until I updated the firmware. I guess if it works *most of the time* it's good enough to release to the public.
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Jul 15, 2020 20:29
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Knormal posted:Never install the full driver package. Get the barebones PCL/PS or universal driver from the company's website, or if they don't provide one then use the "add driver" option ahead of time and point it to the INF file in the driver package directory structure, then plug in the printer and let it auto-install. Never run a printer company's EXE. I remember once upon a time setting up a printer/copier/scanner from HP for my mother. the dumb driver package executable repeatedly got to something like -78% progress on step 9/8 before crashing. printers were a mistake and driver packages are a crime.
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Jul 15, 2020 20:37
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laser printers rule OP. i get 8000 pages per ink cartridge. its perfect for pirating old RPG books and printing socialist propaganda leaflets. your problem is inkjet, thats for losers
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Jul 15, 2020 20:39
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Laser printers are amazing marvels of technology and put beautiful text on the paper. Sorry you had to carry one for a girl once, OP.
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Jul 15, 2020 20:44
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Someone please find and post that angry goon's hilarious rant against printers from a couple years ago. Please add paper to Tray 2 to print from Tray 3. Please add paper to Tray 2 to print from Tray 3. Please add paper to Tray 2 to print from Tray 3.
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Jul 15, 2020 21:08
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I like my $140 wireless Brother black and white printer. It stays unplugged until I need it, and then it's ready in about thirty seconds. I had an HP LaserJet 4L with a JetDirect card and it was a tank. Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:What's the deal with Windows being completely unable to ever cancel a print queue anyway? You have to reboot the computer 95% of the time to clear it and I'll never understand why. Set the printer driver to use a port that references the printer by hostname rather than IP.
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Jul 15, 2020 21:15
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i only print at my office because lol @ paying for a printer in 2020 on that note: steal as much office supplies as you can. its your duty to.
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Jul 15, 2020 21:45
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You know what's worse than printers? Shredders (except for Master Shredder, that's the only good and cool Shredder) Big dumb industrial shredders that pulp the paper into dust and spew it at you when you go to change the bag and you breathe in paper ink particles and glue and matbe if your lucky some plastic bits, staples you name it
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Jul 15, 2020 21:50
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grillster posted:
DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Go into your router settings and give the printer a static IP address. Thanks. I'll try that. Still really lame you have to do all that crap and it doesn't just work.
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Jul 15, 2020 21:54
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I like my printer
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Jul 15, 2020 22:11
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I've done support on printers quite a bit and boy I gotta tell ya, some of them are better than others
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Jul 15, 2020 22:19
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Can we talk refurbished toner cartridges? Because companies just love to think how much money they're saving with those while completely ignoring the fact that you're now having to pay people full-time to fix jams and clean up toner dumped inside printers from cartridges that are held together with spit and duct tape.
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Jul 15, 2020 22:36
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Dick Bastardly posted:You know what's worse than printers? whats the point of shredding when a single match can destroy unlimited documents. seems like a lot of wasted effort
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Jul 15, 2020 22:41
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I saved about 30 phone calls a year by switching my mother from inkjets to a cheap b&w laser printer from Brother. She likes to print recipes she'll never end up making.
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Jul 15, 2020 22:46
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You all hate printers because you mostly deal with cheap as poo poo desktop garbage that was designed to work for 15 minutes and then thrown away. Good quality mfps that cost as much as a small car run for forever and make a million prints without any issues. You get what you pay for.
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Jul 15, 2020 22:50
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I remember wirecutter's article on printers used to just start out by saying all printers are bad, but here are the least bad.
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