"Never buy a printer again!"
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I didn't keep one, because I didn't need anything that big, but when we closed down, none of the instrument manufacturers wanted their B&W laser printers back. Some were worn, but some were almost new. Most were Lexmark, but many were HP.
Because the printers were at a government entity, but weren't government property, typical bureaucratic inefficiency and indecision reigned. I finally said to hell with it, loaded them in my pickup, and hauled them to a local state university, where my contacts accepted them thankfully.
And without any paperwork.
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Isn't it time for us to start using dot-matrix printers again? Nothing else gives that authentic sound of the retro home office. If you're really cool you can get it to print out ASCII pictures of Raquel Welch
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@Mik said in "Never buy a printer again!":
I'm trying to wean MFR off the printer. Such a waste for our lives.
Gotta have it for some things. I run a cheap all-in-one inkjet with knock-off ink. It's been reliable and does what I need, which isn't that much.
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Pretty much every company on the planet for the last few years has a corporate meeting in which someone is like "Hey, how about we implement a SaaS offering?" (Subscription as a Service). From a corporate perspective, it provides very reliable revenue, overall higher revenue in the long run from each customer, and usually a reduced hardware cost. BUT IT IS ANNOYING AS FUCK to end consumers. Printers are the last thing that needs to be SaaS... wow.
Heck, we even have alarm clocks (Hatch) for our kids that are great... they can play a bedtime story or white noise or sound as they go to sleep, you can time them to turn yellow or green when it's time to come out of the room... but EFF ME it costs like $5 a month for a subscription.
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I’m pretty sure “Rage Against the Machine” had printers in mind when they named the band.
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@jon-nyc said in "Never buy a printer again!":
I’m pretty sure “Rage Against the Machine” had printers in mind when they named the band.
Similarly, the British punk band The Jam.
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@jon-nyc said in "Never buy a printer again!":
I’m pretty sure “Rage Against the Machine” had printers in mind when they named the band.
Similarly, the British punk band The Jam.
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Never buy a printer again!":
@jon-nyc said in "Never buy a printer again!":
I’m pretty sure “Rage Against the Machine” had printers in mind when they named the band.
Similarly, the British punk band The Jam.
"The public wants what the public gets."
