Who the hell can afford a printer
Anyone can afford the printer, it’s the ink that’s the problem
The cheap refills came with a free printer.
I think, for me, owning a printer is like owning a van. You’re the only person your friends know who has one, so every time someone needs it you’re the one they ask.
Joke’s on you; I have no friends.
Except for my wife and kids almost nobody knows I have one. But yes I have gotten pdfs from my mother in law to print.
Just get a Brother laser printer. It uses a normal power chord same exact as any desktop PC, and uses toner, same exact as any real printer that’s not a money farming piece of shit ink jet.
DISCLAIMER: I have not investigated Brother or other brands for enshittification in recent years, so YMMV.
My Brother lazer color printer has just been sitting here, pooping out pages and pages of what ever I want, sometimes sitting there off for months, year after year. Still haven’t changed the toner.
Same, had a samsung for 5 years and it sucked, my Brother has been solid for over 5 years now. Just get one that has network support, so you can print from any computer (and even a phone) in your network.
I really miss google cloud print, it was an amazing product (my printer still supports it).
I had a Samsung laser back in college and now it’s leaving streaks down the page. No clue how to clean it. I think I gave it away
Is that an AC/DC power chord?
Sir/ma’am, you win the best comment I’ve seen today, congrats
My HP color laser was such a hassle, every time I wanted to use it I had to hard boot it, and even then it only worked half the time. No wifi or apple access over the network or any other fancy stuff ofc.
Have a b&w brother now, the android app is meh but else it’s wonderful, just doing its job all day long.
Is the color laser as good?
In my experience, yes, but I also do not print a ton of color things, or things in general. It’s just been spitting out random pages here or there for years. Maybe only went through 1.5 reams so far.
Seconded! I have several Brother MFCs. Rock solid, great Linux support, rarely change the toner.
You guys don’t use cloud printing for like 1000% premium?
Cloud printing?
Yeah you send it to the cloud and the next time it rains your print comes down with it.
OK, made it up TBH. Kinda. This is what I was referring to printme
You guys have work printers?
Just playing, I have a Brother color laser printer. Had it for about 7 years, replaced the toner only once, prints fantastically. I mostly use it as a scanner and printing coloring pages for the kid.
I bought a Brother about a year ago. I hadn’t owned a printer in about 12-15 years. In Japan, one can generally just print things at the convenience store (after uploading (app, browser, etc.) or via USB stick), but I moved to the middle of nowhere and got tired of going back and forth. I also needed to print things like business cards which the cobini printers won’t do.
Just bought a brother laser for my job. Damn toner ran out on day 1. I printed 400 pages but still… Oh brother
Have you considered a Kindle instead?
Kindles can print now?
Nope, but you can read books on them, so you don’t need to print them out at home
Sadly my job requires signed papers from each employee to be on file for the state AG department. It’s an enormous waste.
I’ve heard good things about Brother, how’s the ink and Linux situation with those?
I test printed once from Mint, but couldn’t daily-drive linux due to other software I need to work not working after a mint version upgrade.
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In usa you can email documents to staples to get a code to print on their copiers for a fee
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! 😂
We bought a laser printer during the pandemic to keep the kids occupied with educational tasks and general craft type models.
It has been fucking awesome this past few years. It has supported the weight of many a schoolbag, been a home for car keys, kept a judo gi flat for a few days, and has even proven to be a worthy store of the multitude of swimming goggles we seem to accumulate.
Oh, it’s printed a couple of documents too. I can’t remember the last time I refilled the paper tray.
Yeah, I have a 20yo laser printer that’s still going strong, although the network card crapped out.
Yeah laser units are pretty much indestructible in decent conditions. Can yours be connected by USB or parallel instead?
Yeah, the USB cable still works. I could set up a print server, but it’s pretty unnecessary for the 3-4 times a year I print something.
Got a simple brother laser printer. Duplex, BW only, works flawlessly with Linux and as a network printer.
4-5 times a year I’ll need to print 10 pages. Add an additional one every two weeks.
The printer definitely paid for itself in convenience.
Same, I got mocked for buying it. It gets used at least once a month.
The IT folk have printers. I spent several hundred on an office-tier printer years ago and have never done maintenance or even replaced the toner. It just works and will continue to work for years.
I rescued mine - an A3 colour laser with network and auto duplex, no less - from work’s e-waste pile after “the purge” where they eliminated all single-user “personal” printers and moved to only shared printers with swipe card print release.
Have enough toner cartridges to last a lifetime too; its, or mine (either way).
All hail the e-waste pile. I have so many monitors, laptops, desktops, mice and keyboards from several of my old jobs that were otherwise going to be trashed.
Is this perhaps why? I thought it was because of kids.
I’ve had the same ink jet since 2016. The kids have done a good job keeping the jets from having a chance to clog. There is also a wall of family pictures, comparatively infrequent but it was the original reason for purchasing this specific printer. That and zero config printing from mobile devices
That’s impressive! Mine is a laser printer so it’s a bit different, in my experience inkjets are prone to issues so congratulations on having it so long!
It’s a brother I always figured that’s why. It was purchased back when it was a highly recommended brand.
I only use branded carts and I’ve only had to run head cleaning on it a few times, at least one of those took several iterations. Frequent use might have helped.
But it’s probably mostly luck and I hope no one takes this as an endorsement of the brand.
I can also attest to the quality of brother (or at least I could 10-15 years ago)
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.
Help in the form of more printers?
No, he obviously needs a fax so he can receive your message
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.
Home printers suck, too much gadgetry and bs involved. Industrial printers are far better at being plug and play. I dont need apps or anything at all.
"Xennials are the micro-generation of people on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts.
Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983,[1] though some extend this further in either direction"
never heard of these.
We’re sometimes referred to as “The Oregon Trail Generation.” We rode our bikes and ran around in the woods until it got dark, then went inside to play Nintendo.
We are the Xenomorph generation.
I thought we were the Oregon Trail generation. (‘81)
I’m in there, I feel closer to Millenial than Gen X but not quite full Millenial. Think it’s also referred to as the Oregon Trail generation, due to it being a common early PC game to play in class when they taught us computers. I still remember first seeing the trash bin on a Macintosh grow fat when it had items in it, I thought it was awesome, years before Windows.
Yes but do you remember The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary and the creepy dolls?
TIL I’m a “Xelennial”
We are the elder millenials, who know how to defragment a hard drive.
I’m a younger millennial but I know how to do that. Culturally I relate way more with gen z than I do millennials, but man do I feel immense pain when I have to explain to people younger than me how to use technology. I had to explain to one of my younger coworkers how to navigate between folders and different hard drives within Windows the other day and it was more difficult than teaching my mom how to use a smart phone when they first came out. Too young to have had a MySpace but old enough to be everyone’s personal IT guy.
You must be 28
I’m guessing 36
We who have set dip switches or jumpers for an irq address on a sound blaster.
We, the internet’s first squeakers, ruining all of your adult conversations on ICQ, Prodigy, and AOL.
A/S/L?
I’m not even gen X and I’ve done this! On multiple computers. … Oh god, I’m a nerd, aren’t I?
Yep.
We could whistle into a phone and get a modem to try to talk to us.
What a phreak!
I’m a bit older than the minimum age to be a millenial and have defragmented many drives. when I was like 6 but I still remember watching that stupid coloured blocks diagram for hours for some 20mb or something
A little older than minimum? Doesn’t that make you the young side of smack dab in the exact category? xP
Those were the days
It doesn’t do anything you know it just burns out the hard drive.
It did back in the windows 95 through XP days. I 'member when Windows would bog the fuck down if it was too fragmented. I’m pretty sure it was fat32 that was the problem.
Oh yeah, defrag me harder daddy
The deep magic
Defragmenting takes way too long, especially with a > 6tb drive: just buy a new one and copy the data to it then wipe the old one.
The proto-millennials, if you will.
By hand. 😤
Uphill, both ways
At 2400 baud and then someone picks up the phone
They were called Gen Y back in the early 90s
There are a bunch of us who had a more GenX life than our birth year would suggest. The internet wasn’t a source of study and paper writing until college. We were allowed to stay home alone after school far younger than is legal today. In the summer we were kicked out of the house and roamind the town on your bike with no method of contact was normal.
If you saw kids in an 80s movie our lives matched that more than a 90s movie.
Millenials
Hey other 40 year olds: Do you not have a printer? I have never not owned a printer. Technically speaking, I have 3 printers right now. A document printer, an FDM 3D printer, and a resin 3D printer.
I don’t know why I would have a printer
To throw at someone who asks for their keys.
Yeah I have no idea what this is talking about. 38 here, I’ve owned a printer for 15 years at least. We switched to a Brother laser printer a few years back and it’s the tits.
I also own a minivan, AMA.
Perhaps you guys are too young and printers just skipped a generation.
I’m 40 and haven’t had a printer for 14 years, because I moved and left it behind (gave to a friend) on purpose; I have been printing things at work
So I guess what I’m saying is, I’m the guy in the meme
I’m 34, I own a printer, an FDM printer and my ex has my 3 other 3d printers.
And two non-working printers. And a working laser color printer I miss dearly.
I own a 3d printer and haven’t had a 2d printer since childhood. I do have a personal laser printer at the office and it’s awesome.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
