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Yup. I was on the laser printer is the best printer train until I actually had to buy a printer for my home (until then I was printing from the college lab or o

by xmprt 3y ago

Yup. I was on the laser printer is the best printer train until I actually had to buy a printer for my home (until then I was printing from the college lab or office). I quickly realized that a laser printer made no sense for the reasons you outlined.

culopatin 3y ago
I don’t understand the reasons the person you replied to or you are making references to. You rather having to go print every little thing just because once a year you want it to be color? What most people print at home must be Amazon return labels, some school papers and resumes which are all black and white. If you’re in college reading lots of papers with graphs in color you can easily print at school. I got so tired of being asked by friends and family to help them with their shit inkjet printers that I’ll never ever touch one again. I don’t even know when I would HAVE to print color but if I must, and I’m not working in an office, I’ll just go to any store near me and get it done. The laser is painless 99% of the time, where the inkjet is pain 99% of the time. Before I moved across the country I donated my brother laser printer to the least tech savvy aunt in the family that could NEVER print and I have not heard of a single printing issue in almost a year. Where it was always always something. “Some” cartridge failed, not even 20% used. Didn’t say which one to make you change both. Change one, pray, if you’re lucky it works. A week later, black one fails. Or they get clogged, or they need to clean the whatever, which uses 10% of the ink. Such shit I can’t believe there isn’t a mass lawsuit against this.
- lmm 3y ago
  > I don’t understand the reasons the person you replied to or you are making references to. You rather having to go print every little thing just because once a year you want it to be color? What most people print at home must be Amazon return labels If you're returning a package you've got to go somewhere to drop off the package anyway, so may as well print the label there. > some school papers and resumes which are all black and white. If you’re in college reading lots of papers with graphs in color you can easily print at school. Again that sounds like like you're getting the worst of both worlds. If you're going to go to the trouble of getting a printer so you can print off papers, you want to be able to print off all your papers, not just the ones that don't have graphs in. If you're just going to print them at school why wouldn't you print them all at school including the black-and-white ones? (FWIW a CV where I live is expected to have a colour photo embedded)
  - lupire 3y ago
    You live somewhere with different tradeoffs. Here we have more mail drops without printing stations attached, and out jon applications are less explicitly racist and sexist.

by xmprt 3y ago

culopatin 3y ago

I don’t understand the reasons the person you replied to or you are making references to. You rather having to go print every little thing just because once a year you want it to be color? What most people print at home must be Amazon return labels, some school papers and resumes which are all black and white. If you’re in college reading lots of papers with graphs in color you can easily print at school. I got so tired of being asked by friends and family to help them with their shit inkjet printers that I’ll never ever touch one again. I don’t even know when I would HAVE to print color but if I must, and I’m not working in an office, I’ll just go to any store near me and get it done. The laser is painless 99% of the time, where the inkjet is pain 99% of the time. Before I moved across the country I donated my brother laser printer to the least tech savvy aunt in the family that could NEVER print and I have not heard of a single printing issue in almost a year. Where it was always always something. “Some” cartridge failed, not even 20% used. Didn’t say which one to make you change both. Change one, pray, if you’re lucky it works. A week later, black one fails. Or they get clogged, or they need to clean the whatever, which uses 10% of the ink. Such shit I can’t believe there isn’t a mass lawsuit against this.

lmm 3y ago
> I don’t understand the reasons the person you replied to or you are making references to. You rather having to go print every little thing just because once a year you want it to be color? What most people print at home must be Amazon return labels If you're returning a package you've got to go somewhere to drop off the package anyway, so may as well print the label there. > some school papers and resumes which are all black and white. If you’re in college reading lots of papers with graphs in color you can easily print at school. Again that sounds like like you're getting the worst of both worlds. If you're going to go to the trouble of getting a printer so you can print off papers, you want to be able to print off all your papers, not just the ones that don't have graphs in. If you're just going to print them at school why wouldn't you print them all at school including the black-and-white ones? (FWIW a CV where I live is expected to have a colour photo embedded)
- lupire 3y ago
  You live somewhere with different tradeoffs. Here we have more mail drops without printing stations attached, and out jon applications are less explicitly racist and sexist.