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laser printers are actually really cool from a mechanical standpoint and are also a great example of how amazing technology can be rendered noxious by the droll incompetence of consumer manufacturing and/or bloodless calculus of capitalism
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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
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Jul 15, 2020 18:01
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zer0spunk posted:my brother b/w laser was less than 100 bucks and has been going strong for a decade. only suckers buy ink printers in theory laser printers should be cheap, easy-to-maintain modular machines that Just Work for a nearly infinite amount of time. they're made out of common materials and devices and their principal parts can easily be constructed for reliability. in reality everything you buy is intended to break itself because you can't maintain an income stream off of a product that never needs to be replaced. that said inkjets are 5000x worse than laser printers for everything except extremely specific applications and if you let Best Buy or whatever sell you one of those pieces of poo poo you're a chump just like your fuckin grandma
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