Printers are the worst scam - printer companies just try to come up with a new trap every year to outrace (planned) obsolescence, generally screwing you over in some way. Over the 20+ years of intermittently owning a printer, when I have to print something once or twice a year, it seems the printer dies before the 3rd print. The ink dies, the machine dies, or somewhere in between. You can buy a cheap printer for 30 dollars, but it'll cost you 60 dollars in ink, if the whole thing even lasts more than a year or two. You can buy a nice laser printer, but it'll generally mechanically fail before you ever even use your toner. It's a race to the bottom at this point with nothing but chinese garbage being sold.
I agree with the rest - if I really need something printed, I'll go to a print store for the once or twice a year I need to have it printed, and say fsck printers and the garbage companies that make them. -mb On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 2:15 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I occasionally need to print things. Like "every 6 months or so". I > had an old Samsung CLP-315 that worked very well, but it's dead, and > nothing I have tried (Doze10, OS X, removing and reseating all > user-servicable parts) has been able to get it to work again. > > So: What do you all do for occasional printing? Inkjets dry up when > not used often, so I disregarded inkjets. I looked at B&W laser > printers on Amazon and Tiger Direct. The Brother HL-L2300D is listed on > openprinting.org as "working perfectly"[0], but for the last week, it's > been "temporarily out of stock". Other models of Brother, Lexmark, and > Canon printers that are listed on Amazon and Tiger Direct are A) > "temporarily out of stock" if they are listed on openprinting.org B) not > listed at all on openprinting.org and therefore probably paperweights. > > Ordinarily in this situation, I'd print the 15-20 pages I need to print > at the office. The office is not really an option; I have no idea when > it'll be open again. Thoughts? Suggestions? Howls of pain? > > [0] Binary-only i386 printer filter required, but this is not a huge > problem for me. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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