I have two ten year old non color hp laser printers. I bought them at a surplus sales along with two new toners. So far I’m still on the first printer. They are old enough that they have no drm. The work with everything and I expect them to outlast me. I print about ten to twenty pages a year.
Got a simple brother laser printer. Duplex, BW only, works flawlessly with Linux and as a network printer.
4-5 times a year I’ll need to print 10 pages. Add an additional one every two weeks.
The printer definitely paid for itself in convenience.
Same, I got mocked for buying it. It gets used at least once a month.
laser is the secret
Brother is the other secret, though it seem like maybe even they have turned… the problem with making a solid piece of equipment that will last for a decade is you consume your customer base and can’t show ‘growth’ constantly.
My Brother color laser (model 3170, bought in 2016) doesn’t print the perfect photos, but that’s not what I use it for. I print coloring sheets and camp forms for my kiddos and random forms for adult life. It ran on the original toner carts for around 5 years, with black being replaced first on its own. There’s no inkjet in the world that will have 5 year-old carts work, but laser toner doesn’t dry out.
Yup, one of the first things I did when I had a reasonable expectation of not moving around often was buy a big ass brother laser printer, scanner etc used for like $60. These things are built like a tank.
Going to my local library is the secret.
Who the hell can afford printer cartridge
The problems with society can really be highlighted with how printers are marketed. Cheaper to buy a new printer than replace the ink cartridges on an existing printer.
We are literally built to encourage waste.
Nope. You just need to pay more to be eco friendly
Which is not how it’s supposed to work but I agree with your sentiment
I’m sorry, friend, but I don’t agree with you. This is how it is supposed to work and therefore it should be dismantled
Printers are scams…the end
Picked one for free two years ago, works perfect, I buy pirated cartridges for like, 30$ per entire set, evep prints high quality photos…
pirated cartridges
what
Will it be better if I call them ‘third party’ or ‘not approved by the manufacturer’?
Just picked one up for $10 at habitat for humanity restore. Works perfectly, scanner too! Still got em.
I’ve heard Xennial and even heard Xellennial, had not heard Xenninial yet. Impressed.
I have a printer, and know where the power cord is! I even have it paired to my wifi and use it to scan stuff. Don’t ask me to print anything, I can’t afford the ink.
Xennial here, get a Brother laser printer if you can. The “starter toner” lasted me for like 4 years so far and is only now getting low. I can’t imagine going back to an inkjet that would always dry up since I used infrequently, but I still needed it.
A second vote for brother lasers.
I upgraded my old printer about 6 months ago. Laser is far superior, and no longer particularly expensive. I also discovered they have solved the photo printing quality issue at some point (laser’s only real weakness). I ran off a photo and it came out near/at inkjet quality.
You do one up front payment and it saves so much money long term, so many people are against that concept
Bonus is you can buy third party refilled toner in bundles for like $15 for 3. I bought some a couple of years ago and I still haven’t burned through the first replacement
There have been reports that Brother has finally started being evil about third-party toner with new firmwares.
That’s why I’m thankful I haven’t updated mine and it’s an older model. People should look out for that for sure.
Same, 3 years running, printing lots of shit for my own company and just now got a “low toner” warning which I’m ignoring for the last 2 or so months. Buying an inkjet is the biggest scam there is, you pay more in the ink and broken printers than you ever would for a laser.
Yep, finally got rid of my Epson BJ with a Brother b/w laser and it’s fantastic. A little louder but it functions like it should instead of complaining about low Magenta.
Don’t ask Richard Stallman to view a non-printed webpage.
The entire printer industry is being funded by our grandparents, I am not fucking joking. My grandpa has bought MULTIPLE printers last year alone, please some one send help.
Help in the form of more printers?
No, he obviously needs a fax so he can receive your message
My entire family for probably 30 years thought i was gaslighting them about how bad my grandfather is with computers. And phones. And the internet. And phones.
He’s 93 and he’s convinced them really well these last 5 years or so. It’s a nightmare lol.
I just write the document by hand the one time a year I need a printer. Doesn’t work for everything but is good enough for lots of the stuff that still requires your signature in ink
i just sign a piece of paper, take a picture then photoshop it into to a screenshot of the pdf, and slightly distort it and add noise to make it look like it was scanned….
if they want me to physically mail the paper in, i just give up and move on.Ah, found a solution for that too. There’s services twhere you can send a pdf and they will print it, pack it in an envelope and send it to any address you specify.
nice…
i had to print 2 whole pages a few years ago, and gone to a office supply store. told them i would like to pay for it by card…cashier told me if i use the card, the banking transaction cost more than printing two a4 papers, so long story short it was free.
these stores usually have a printer so expensive i wouldnt be able to pay for it with all my organs, but its cheaper to print there then having a printer at home.
as for work, i dont like the looks people give me when i print there. i like to keep my private life out of the office, i recommend the same. if you want to print out a long ass book however, and nobody cares at work, go ahead.
My local library has been getting refurbished for a couple of months.
It’s really thrown off my ability to do paperwork, as they were the only people around with a working printer.
I actually had to fix the printer at work. Horrible stuff.
Ditto on libraries. Mine does AWESOME large format printing for next to nothing. I got 5 different sewing patterns printed, which ended up being 20 or so pages of 48"x48" sheets in color and it cost about $30. Priced it at fedex and it was running well over $100 (I think closer to 200 or 300 but I didn’t pay much attention after seeing how much it was at the libraries.
I have a small Canon b/w laserjet at home which has worked well for small projects but the libraries have been a huge help for anything outside standard letter size print jobs.
Hey! I use my local library too! 😂
I have had a series of perpetually 10+ year old printers that have been handed down to me by Boomers. I print something maybe once a year, so I usually have to go through a half hour of printer cleaning to get the dried out ink to flow again. I really should just get rid of it and go to a photocopy place the next time I need a physical copy of something.
Edit: I just realized it would literally be easier and faster to burn something onto paper with my laser engraver. I think I just talked myself into quitting printers.
Get a toner printer, they don’t go bad.
They can be left on their own for years and they still print the same.
