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This hits hard :'(
In an omniverse of infinite dimensions and fundamental particles, there’d be no permutation of any that would permit whatever’s being represented in the comic to exist.
I can’t even remember the last time I used a printer
You must not work for a company that went paperless then
Get a Brother. My simple black and white laser printer has very strong “ME PRINT FOR YOU. ME PRINT! ME PRINT ALL PAGE FOR YOU” energy. The only beef we have is when he is all “NO PRINT. FEED ME PAPER” and then when fed he goes back to printing no problem.
Can you share the model of the Brother printer you use?
😆Can someone make a similar one for bluetooth devices too, pretty please?
i never had problem with bluetooth devices
You must be amazingly lucky. Bluetooth has been nothing but issues for me for 15 years of use, across a plethora of host and client devices, OSes, mobile and desktop, all Bluetooth versions, proprietary implementations (game controllers), cheap devices, expensive devices, ranges, etc. Bluetooth has improved a lot in the past 5 years, but it’s still not good enough imo. A PS5 controller can’t stay reliably connected to my steam deck that is docked by my TV while I am sitting on my couch, yet an Xbox controller with a wifi-based USB dongle works fine.
And in the shot should be a 3.5mm plug laughing while holding money
“Once upon a time, I bought a Brother color laser. It never failed to do its job. The End.”
My wife would always call it World War 3 whenever I would go to print something with my inkjet. Finally bought a Brother colour laser a couple years ago. While my distrust of printers is still deep seeded, this printer and I are approaching something of a friendship.
I just bought one last week and holy shit you aren’t joking. Our Canon was malfunctioning for the last 2 years, so I finally bought a refurbed B&W Brother Laser. I’ve never had a printer just work like this. I didn’t even have to connect to it. My browser just automatically detected it, even on Linux.
My browser just automatically detected it
Wait, what?
Probably misspoke saying the browser is what detected it, but the first time I went to print anything was from Firefox and the printer was already there.
Printer support on Linux is honestly better than Windows.
I have one of their all-in-one colour toner machines for my GF’s business, it’s awesome. Scanning to an SFTP share means she can just feet a stack of paper into it and get a PDF in her Documents/Scans directory.
AND fun fact, there are no lasers in “laser printers” they all use 1D LED arrays to transfer the image data to the drum. Only the early toner based printers used a real laser and they were operating almost like a CRT, scanning a raster onto the drum.
I just bought a new printer. After reading lots of reviews, it came down to Brother color laser and Canon color laser. Consensus seemed to be Canon was equally reliable with slightly better color quality.
My HL2270DW has been working flawlessly for nearly 10 years now.
Connects to any PC/mac on my home network. Always prints correctly. Toners are dirt cheap
Is OP using a 1998 cannon printer or something?
I was just going to comment the same. My Brother laser printer has simply done its job for the last 13 years without issue.
It’d be nice if there were open source printers. Somehow we have a few for 3D printers but not 2D printers, and it is annoying as hell.
An decent SLA 3d printer (which will be much more accurate than an FDM printer) can get down to feature sizes of 150 microns. A 300dpi paper printer is hitting about 85 microns, and that’s not even a particularly high resolution printer.
Source on SLA printer feature size: https://formlabs.com/blog/3d-printer-resolution-meaning/
It’s because the printer heads are really hard to make, since the individual nozzles are so tiny.
Linux/Cups. Postscript. Laser. Have never had a problem. Printers not working is a “put the logic in the Windoze driver” problem vs telling a good printer “Print this”.
My Brother laser printer/fax that looks like it came from the 90s is amazing and works with everything on default drivers. Mac, PC, Linux, Android, all of these work fine for me. The brother driver gives you more options if you care to install it, but you don’t have to.
Inkjet is a different beast. Especially the ones that don’t let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink, or that check for “legit” ink refills.
Especially the ones that don’t let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink,
They need the colour ink to print the tracking dots :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots
With how expensive colour ink is, that’s also stupid
I do stuff that involves quite a lot of printing, scanning, and copying.
My goofy lil Canon Pixma MG3620 printer has held strong throughout the years.
I will scream if it ever dies, as I have zero desire to peruse the hellscape of current-day printers.
My Canon laser multi-function works fine. Connected with Ethernet it just does its thing.
My wife has had issues printing some PDFs from OSX but she is always too busy for me to look at it.
The author of the book never had a Brother, it seems
Oh, you mean laser printers?
Sadly the consumer laser printer market is in decline and a couple of companies have already exited. I’m not sure how much longer they’ll be available (new).
Home printing is a declining market overall, SMB printing has plateaued, and a lot of the die-hard laser printer users are moving away; because bringing big canisters of microplastics into one’s home is less appealing than it once was.
True that…
For now, we can hope the surplus from previous generation would last.
HP LJ 1200
F in chat
This looks like an office jet pro 8720 which ironically is one of the printers I’ve had the least trouble with.
I’m running an Epson ecotank now though because the price per page is way better.
Gotta be a Brother
I found a brother laser printer for 8 bucks at a thrift store and it printed with linux over USB as soon as I got it home without any tweaking.
I then directly networked it to a raspberry pi, configured it with cups and shared the printer over my network. Every device was able to discover it instantly and I can print from anything, android phone, ipad, mac, linux laptop, etc.
It’s absolutely freeing. I found an OEM toner cartridge for like 30 bucks, so I have like 2000 bw prints ready to go for like 40 dollars all in.
I will talk shit about a lot of printers, but I’ve had a Brother workhorse laser for years. It’s black and white. You tell it to print and it spits out pages. I don’t know if they still make them that way but they used to be amazing at the very least.
They do, absolute workhorses with no bullshit. Only printer I will ever pay money for.
