Get a basic Brother B/W láser printer.
With $15 you can buy a 1,000 page generic toner, and a 500 pack of paper.
Like I said in one of the previous comments, I would love to buy laser printer, but sometimes we still need to print at home with colors.
Pray tell what exactly do you have to print in colory, and how often. Most of color printing can be offloaded to a print shop.
My mother is teacher and she needs to often print at home (when she is not at the school anymore). Print shop would be the best option, but we are in country side and driving almost an hour to nearest city is just not worth.
I’ve printed a few hundred pages with the starter toner they said would only last 30 pages, and just disabled the warning
That’s fancy, mine is rather new (2y) and just prints even if the cartridge is empty, doesn’t complain at all.
Mildly infuriating: this post’s lack of image rotation
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Mildly infuriating: this post’s lack of image rotation
Regarding your image rotation: When you rotate an image, it’s often not done as an actual movement of data, but as an added EXIF tag. “Take this image and display it at this angle.”
EXIF tags can store a lot of malicious shit like the GPS location of your photo, so lemmy aggressively strips them out. Better take your photos the right way from the start and/or use a robust photo manipulation software that will actually rearrange the data instead of adding a tag.
I hope Lemmy doesn’t strip all EXIF tags… There’s important things in there about colour, copyright, etc that should be kept.
I’ve encountered the same issue as OP where Lemmy was incorrectly rotating an image, and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it. It worked perfectly fine on other sites that strip personal EXIF data like Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc; it was just Lemmy that was unhappy.
I’ve found that taking s screenshot of the pic solves the issue, for me at least
Lemmy is much more aggressive about it than the other sites you mentioned. Dunno what to tell you since you’re hoping otherwise, but that’s what’s going on.
Worked at office Depot when this first rolled out, around 2013 or so. It was a hard sell then too. Was another reason I pushed lasers to people.
For a second or two I thought that you didn’t even get any actual ink. I had seen a post about multi-function printers refusing to scan if you’re out of ink, and I thought perhaps you could buy a card with an unlock code for such situations (hence “instant ink”). That’s not too unbelievable these days though, is it?
Meanwhile at home we’re using Canon tank printer for which starter inks should be enough for about 3 years, and retail ones are dirt cheap, like $10 each for like 100ml average
So glad I have never had to print anything off at home for over a half decade now. The family printer might not be getting much use anymore, but it sure beats subscribing to use the device you purchased.
Same I rarely print . Have a brother colour laser these days (they’re quite reasonably priced compared to a few years ago) and the toner isn’t going to go bad through non-use like an inkjet would
Had an HP inlet a while back… the ink dried up and blocked the head. The HP official solution was the head was nonreplaceable and you had to buy a new printer. So I did, but never would I buy HP again.
All of you who say you never print anything must not have kids. We have to print stuff for my daughter’s school fairly regularly. Even now that assignments are generally turned in on her Chromebook.
What grades does this start? I’ve got to prepare for it. Is it an ad hoc requirement, or is it known partially in advance can I run some test papers as work every once in a while to cover printing needs?
How are parents without printers doing it? Local library?
We’ve been printing stuff since first grade, although admittedly she didn’t get a Chromebook until fifth grade and printing has been less.
That said, I’m sure they have accommodations for parents who don’t have printers. It’s probably the school themselves or the teacher (more likely since it’s probably on their dime) wanting to save ink.
Also, it isn’t 100% necessary for this reason, but it’s really helpful to have a printer when doing posterboard projects for things like labels.
Appreciate your insights.
Nah, we’re not saying we never print anything. School & work are the main reasons you’ll need a printer. However, the thing is nobody needs to print consistently. Even on a whole family of seven I’ve lived in, I doubt we printed more than 5 or 10 papers per month, and that was maximum. Not to mention we live in a place where it takes 30-45 minutes to go to a school (and libraries? They don’t exist lmao) and print shops are expensive.
The fact of the matter is the usefulness of a printer is is mainly due to being able to keep it around to print on demand for essentially free (how many times have you used up all the ink in the cartridge, really?) Nobody can ever predict whenever they need to print, it just happens. The second you attach it to an overpriced subscription service where the public will absolutely not use all of their “monthly papers” is when they all leave your brand like birds in the winter, and especially if they live somewhere more fortunate than we do, just go to your local school or library.
Oh I’m not justifying the subscription bullshit. There are just multiple people in this thread who are suggesting there’s no reason to own a printer.
Why is the printhead permanently attached in my hp printer. Do they have any valid justification they could make?
That way, when it clogs, you have to buy a whole new one.
Or purchase an angled syringe through eBay, thread paper towels under the printhead one by one and squirt 99% IPA through to break the clog (after manually fighting the printhead from locking itself into a non-accessible corner during shutdown or getting error messages of improper shutdown that stops the clean printhead function from working for several attempts).
I bought an HP Printer and now even if you have the ink you literally must subscribe to their service in order to use the ink you’ve bought…
Get an Epson ecotank
Funfact, printer ink costs 20-50€ per Liter for the manufacturer and is often solled for over 5000€ a liter!
This is not mildly infuriating. This is intensely rage inducing.
Print 50 6*8" photos for $5 a month seems a good deal, you would never be able to spend less than that with OEM inks
It’s just an industry in their death rolls.
Printing is now almost universally optional. Most of the things that get printed these days are only printed because people are more comfortable. Probably a pretty scary place to be if you’re the printer division of a company.
