<div dir="ltr"><div>Printers are the worst scam - printer companies just try to come up with a new trap every year to outrace (planned) obsolescence, generally screwing you over in some way. Over the 20+ years of intermittently owning a printer, when I have to print something once or twice a year, it seems the printer dies before the 3rd print. The ink dies, the machine dies, or somewhere in between. You can buy a cheap printer for 30 dollars, but it'll cost you 60 dollars in ink, if the whole thing even lasts more than a year or two. You can buy a nice laser printer, but it'll generally mechanically fail before you ever even use your toner. It's a race to the bottom at this point with nothing but chinese garbage being sold.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I agree with the rest - if I really need something printed, I'll go to a print store for the once or twice a year I need to have it printed, and say fsck printers and the garbage companies that make them.</div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 2:15 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I occasionally need to print things. Like "every 6 months or so". I <br>
had an old Samsung CLP-315 that worked very well, but it's dead, and <br>
nothing I have tried (Doze10, OS X, removing and reseating all <br>
user-servicable parts) has been able to get it to work again.<br>
<br>
So: What do you all do for occasional printing? Inkjets dry up when <br>
not used often, so I disregarded inkjets. I looked at B&W laser <br>
printers on Amazon and Tiger Direct. The Brother HL-L2300D is listed on <br>
<a href="http://openprinting.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">openprinting.org</a> as "working perfectly"[0], but for the last week, it's <br>
been "temporarily out of stock". Other models of Brother, Lexmark, and <br>
Canon printers that are listed on Amazon and Tiger Direct are A) <br>
"temporarily out of stock" if they are listed on <a href="http://openprinting.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">openprinting.org</a> B) not <br>
listed at all on <a href="http://openprinting.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">openprinting.org</a> and therefore probably paperweights.<br>
<br>
Ordinarily in this situation, I'd print the 15-20 pages I need to print <br>
at the office. The office is not really an option; I have no idea when <br>
it'll be open again. Thoughts? Suggestions? Howls of pain?<br>
<br>
[0] Binary-only i386 printer filter required, but this is not a huge <br>
problem for me.<br>
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