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Pardon the rage, but this blog is simply a rant masquerading as technical opinion. Laser printers do NOT have better quality to a comparable inkjet printer. Th

Pardon the rage, but this blog is simply a rant masquerading as technical opinion. Laser printers do NOT have better quality to a comparable inkjet printer. This is what happens when individuals with expertise in a specialized area (such as programming), think that gives them some right to pass off opinion as fact in other fields, such as printing economics or procurement. For those curious about the details, the industry has been more or less disrupted with the new generation of tank printers. Epson and HP even have begun offering printers with massive ink tanks that bring down the cost of prints to much lower than a US cent. You can do even better than that with bulk buys or sourcing the ink from discount stores, better sources than open retail. Also, you “absolutely don’t” need to print every page in color, but it makes it a whole lot better if you do. Once you’re used to the difference in quality, there’s very little else that will feel as good. This is personal preference of course and if your requirements at present are only black and white documents, those will look a lot better with the higher dpi prints too. There’s another thing to be said about titles such as “no good reason to ever do x” ; Just because one person in a narrow minded existence sees no reason to, that doesn’t mean there’s never a good reason to. This toxic BS is what makes the tech industry so hard to have constructive conversations in.

nmstoker 7y ago
I think you're overblowing things here. It's not "toxic BS", it's just a piece he put out on his blog with his opinion. Your mention of tank printers is helpful but given his article is from 2016 the trend may not have been so obvious back then as it is now (to you; I don't bother following the printer market).
- bleh123 7y ago
  Interesting. You're saying that one mustn't take the writings in a blog seriously, because . . its a blog? Here are a few choice quotes from the blog: > Which gives me, as your nerd friend who gets asked about this stuff all the time, an opportunity to pre-emptively pass along to you a little bit of purchasing advice. > because literally the only thing that inkjets had going for them was the fact that they were massively cheaper than lasers. They lose on every other front. > And then there is the big problem with inkjets, which is that ink for them is just ludicrously expensive. 1. There's no premise of "hey, i might be wrong here, this is what i think", in fact the first quote begins with the premise that, as a "nerd friend who gets asked about this stuff all the time", somehow this writer is an expert. Personally ,this seems as presumptive as the manufacturers "gouging" on peoples novice understanding of printing economics and technical ability, thus charging a premium for the abstraction of the details and upfront subsidy in the form of hardware discounts to later charge for supplies, that the author rallies against in the entire blog. 2. The 2nd and 3rd comments are just plain wrong. Writing them in a blog or anywhere with the conviction that they're right will do nothing to further ones reputation as someone who knows what they're talking about or has done a reasonable job searching the internet or any other source for details that may disgree with ones view before putting it out there. 3. The blogpost is from 2016, but tank printers and the economics that the blog covers have been around for much longer than that (>5 years now) The issue i take with this whole opinion isn't the fact that it is wrong. Again, debate on ideas is a very healthy exercise and must be encouraged. It's the presentation of an opinion as unquestionable and absolute fact that reduces the whole piece to one that's not in good taste. This writing style is more and more prevalent in tech where authors tend to cling to their POV with absolutes rather than approach an engineering problem/statement with an open mind and present ideas/opinion as what they are . . Ideas and opinions. Not absolute fact that cannot be questioned under any circumstance.
nottorp 7y ago
Have they fixed the problem that inkjet printers dry up if you print infrequently yet? Some months I only use my laser once. Can a modern inkjet survive that?

nmstoker 7y ago

I think you're overblowing things here. It's not "toxic BS", it's just a piece he put out on his blog with his opinion. Your mention of tank printers is helpful but given his article is from 2016 the trend may not have been so obvious back then as it is now (to you; I don't bother following the printer market).

bleh123 7y ago
Interesting. You're saying that one mustn't take the writings in a blog seriously, because . . its a blog? Here are a few choice quotes from the blog: > Which gives me, as your nerd friend who gets asked about this stuff all the time, an opportunity to pre-emptively pass along to you a little bit of purchasing advice. > because literally the only thing that inkjets had going for them was the fact that they were massively cheaper than lasers. They lose on every other front. > And then there is the big problem with inkjets, which is that ink for them is just ludicrously expensive. 1. There's no premise of "hey, i might be wrong here, this is what i think", in fact the first quote begins with the premise that, as a "nerd friend who gets asked about this stuff all the time", somehow this writer is an expert. Personally ,this seems as presumptive as the manufacturers "gouging" on peoples novice understanding of printing economics and technical ability, thus charging a premium for the abstraction of the details and upfront subsidy in the form of hardware discounts to later charge for supplies, that the author rallies against in the entire blog. 2. The 2nd and 3rd comments are just plain wrong. Writing them in a blog or anywhere with the conviction that they're right will do nothing to further ones reputation as someone who knows what they're talking about or has done a reasonable job searching the internet or any other source for details that may disgree with ones view before putting it out there. 3. The blogpost is from 2016, but tank printers and the economics that the blog covers have been around for much longer than that (>5 years now) The issue i take with this whole opinion isn't the fact that it is wrong. Again, debate on ideas is a very healthy exercise and must be encouraged. It's the presentation of an opinion as unquestionable and absolute fact that reduces the whole piece to one that's not in good taste. This writing style is more and more prevalent in tech where authors tend to cling to their POV with absolutes rather than approach an engineering problem/statement with an open mind and present ideas/opinion as what they are . . Ideas and opinions. Not absolute fact that cannot be questioned under any circumstance.

nottorp 7y ago

Have they fixed the problem that inkjet printers dry up if you print infrequently yet? Some months I only use my laser once. Can a modern inkjet survive that?