Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2014, Tom Horsley sent: > I checked every model HP was selling, and they removed CD/DVD printing > from all their new printers, so I abandoned HP.
Just recently, I went looking for a printer that could print on discs, more out of curiosity than anything else, and there's none to be found in any of the local shops. I think that, not only has the concept of printing on discs fallen out of favour, but the idea of burning things to disc, too. Blank discs, of any sort, are getting harder to buy, never mind printable ones. Fewer shops stock them, and with fewer options (less brands, less different types of discs). And thanks to changes in media distribution (rental shops dying off, viewing things on-line going up, people exchanging their "recorded" videos on memory devices instead of DVDs, etc.), I think the mass video piracy that pushed the high volume of blank discs sales, has diminished. I work in legitimate video production, anything from filming sporting matches to stage plays, etc. I have a good reason to buy discs in bulk. Likewise for businesses that do organised back-ups. But I can't really see much need for the average consumer to have to buy 100 blank discs regularly. It's getting to the point where I'm going to need to special order discs, because the shops don't have them, or really crap ones. I did have to go out of my way to buy boxes for the discs. That's another thing that I don't get - shops selling 100 disc tubs of blanks, but no disc boxes or sleeves to put them in. It doesn't make sense. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
