I wonder how right-to-repair will change the printer market.
Probably why they are fighting it so hard
And I’m over here, with a laser printer, laughing at everyone’s “printer not working” issues. Hasn’t let me down ever and is a speed demon.
Laser printers are definitely the way to go, but still not 100% without problems. Every once in a while I get some bullshit messages about my magenta toner not being compatible, but unplugging it for a minute seems to fix it.
And I’m over here,
with a laser printerwith 20 year old HP inkjet printer, laughing at everyone’s “printer not working” issues. Hasn’t let me down everand is a speed demon.but the high-DPI setting takes 20 minutes per A4 page to create near-laser quality.Which one you got?
A Brother, no idea what model or anything, googled a bit and took the most recommended color one
From what I’ve heard, even inkjet Brother printers are good.
Inkjet sucks when you use it for anything other than regular work. Most people need to print out a few pages each month, maybe a package label for a courier or sth. Inkjets tend to dry out and stop working if you use them that way
There’s good inkjets. They cost over $500, sometimes over $1000. They exist and serve a niche.
we should have stopped making new printers after the HP LaserJet 4, it’s all been downhill since then
With how much more reliable and easy to use 3d printers are, I’m saying we need to move on to 4d printers
I’ve never had a driver problem with my 3D printer
Page comes out decaying, crumbling, “send help” message scrawled across it because you forgot to refill the time dilation cartridge
Can I just 3D print my documents?
I mean you could. It would be slower more expensive and less practical than inkjet or laser printing, but there is nothing keeping you from fixing a piece of paper in the 3d printer and have it “write” on it with the molten plastic.
See…I was imagining you’d 3D print the whole thing: paper with text
This but mirror image it then put ink on it and press it on to paper.
Well hey then you have a 3D photocopier.
Print the text as holes in a sheet and spray paint it onto the paper
Yeah, 3D printer stuff has lots of open source and open hardware going on so its a big improvement over 2D in that aspect
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In my 10 years of being a High School Robotics teacher i find that my group has less problems with the 3d printers than the 2d printers.
My 3D printer works better than my 2D printer
Which is exactly why you should use your 3D printer as a 2D plotter to print things.
Haha. It sounds like it’d work for low volume prints. Imagine waiting hours for a stack of paper to print.
What’s stopping you from making a bit of software to translate text to single layer 3d prints onto paper?
The irony is that making an Open Source 3D Printer is far more accessible and affordable than making an Open Source 2D printer.
Resin printers are the laser printers (in a few cases, literally) of the 3D world.
Filament are the inkjets, super likely for something to go horribly wrong because of a tiny miscalculation.
Theres nothing inherently wrong with traditional 3D printers though? You can get high reliability from multiple printers on the market.
Yeah except the ink is super toxic and will make your room smell awful and give you cancer for touching the final product for resin printers which generally isn’t true of your book report
Printer toner isn’t exactly healthy or good smelling either
But it gets fused to the paper really nice making it water resistant even. Your room does end up smelling like ozone though.
PC LOAD LETTER …is still a thing….
My recommendation for everyone on printers is to buy the cheapest new one you can find them at the first problem trash it and buy a new one. They are made so poorly it’s not worth the headache.
That only promotes waste
Buy a costumer-respecting printer. It’s that simple.
Which do you use?
I didn’t buy it (yet), but I’ve heard that the Brother printer is good. They respect their costumers and allow you to install 3rd party ink cartridges.
My folks had a brother printer a couple years ago. Not terrible, but also nothing to write home about. Maybe that’s good for a printer brand though lol
Epson Eco-Tanks if you want to print pictures
Else Brother Laser/LED, and order the pictures you want in print from a webshop.
Yea, if there’s anything the world needs it’s more e-waste!
I feel like this is the reason we have this problem in the first place
Carmack, drop that Meta already, it’s time for a 2,5D printer!
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Colour laser printers have been around for long enough that they’re a decent value. If you buy cheap HP inkjet slop, don’t blame capitalism when they try to wring you for more money
I have one of these at work. It throws a fit roughly 5 times a day.
One occasional issue is that it claims it has a blockage, it doesn’t, it wants you to open and close one of the doors.
Then do what it wants smh
I serve the printer overlord
