Don’t ask Richard Stallman to view a non-printed webpage.
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.
wtf is a xenninial?
the Oregon Trail Generation
got it lol
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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.
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.
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.
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.
What? I have a working printer and a box full of power cables.
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)
Brother b/w laser ftw
Norway is pretty much paperless I only use the printer to print colouring pages for the kids.
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.
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.
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.
If this is me in several years, I think my version will be “my precious pre-enshittification brother laser is so old they stopped making third party toner carts for it” or probably more likely something like “how do we have a working plugged-in printer on wifi that we can’t find? Did we build a wall in front of it? How long was it sitting in the corner of that spare room?”
Personally, I like not needing to dedicate the space to a printer. The rare times I need to print something, I’ll just go to a store with a print shop like staples. Over the last 8 years, I’ve spent less than $10 on all of my printing needs, which is still way cheaper than even the most cost-effective, least-HP printer out there.
Your problem is comparing to the shittiest of printers.
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.
Why not use the local library? They often offer print services
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.
Same, same. Just FYI, Brother has maybe pushed some sketchy updates recently. This would be a massive betrayal, as Brother has always been the best & everybody else sucks.
So just make sure your printer doesn’t connect to the internet. 👍
I saw that Brother completely refuted these claims, but obviously there is always a chance that they will go to the dark side.
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! 😂
Xennial here. I bought a nice lightly used office printer/copier for cheap off ebay a few years back for my daughter’s Girl Scout troop. It saw a lot of use while I was an assistant leader, but nowadays I only use it to print Pathfinder character sheets and maps. I definitely don’t use it enough to justify it, but as long as I have it I may as well keep it.
