• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 小时前

    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.

  • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    21·
    5 小时前

    Don’t send anybody anything to print at home. If you need something physical in today’s year, you go through that effort and mail it

  • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 小时前

    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.

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 小时前

    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.

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    5 小时前

    I have a canon pixma printer and the goddamn IT people can’t make it work with my new laptop. Fucking bullshit.

  • Buske@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    13 小时前

    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.

    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      12 小时前

      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.

  • Nooodel@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 小时前

    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

    • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      7 小时前

      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.

      • Nooodel@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 分钟前

        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.

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
    22·
    16 小时前

    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.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      14 小时前

      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.

    • BellyPurpledGerbil@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      14 小时前

      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

      • axus@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        14 小时前

        There have been reports that Brother has finally started being evil about third-party toner with new firmwares.

    • renrenPDX@lemmy.world
      2·
      14 小时前

      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.

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
      3·
      16 小时前

      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.

  • Allero
    2·
    10 小时前

    Last year I bought an old second-hand Brother laser printer for $20, with 60% ink and 75% on the drum. Works like a charm.

    • brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      12 小时前

      Was gunna say, I have 3.

      Brother b/w Laser Printer - Most things

      Epson Ecotank - Color prints (usually stickers/heat transfer vinyl + cutting machine below printer)

      Canon PIXMA large format - Got this one for free, I use it to print 18*24 (usually knock off posters for photography sets, or cus I HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE MY OWN BOOTLEG POSTERS FEAR ME)

  • tino@lemmy.world
    7·
    16 小时前

    This is me. Now that I work from home, if I need to print something (maybe 3 times per year), I use a mailing service that will print a pdf and send it to my place. It cost 2€ per document, takes 2-3 days to arrive, but it is still cheaper and less painful than buying a printer.

  • sunbytes@lemmy.world
    10·
    17 小时前

    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.

    • restingboredface@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      13 小时前

      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.

  • normalexit@lemmy.world
    6·
    16 小时前

    Brother laser gang here – highly recommend. I print a handful of things every year and it hasn’t let me down. Still rocking the original toner and I bought it in 2021.