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Mainly because lasers always work. You can ignore one for a year, then turn it on to print something and it’ll greet you like a Labrador retriever seeing you ge

Mainly because lasers always work. You can ignore one for a year, then turn it on to print something and it’ll greet you like a Labrador retriever seeing you get home from work. I’ve never had that experience with any inkjet, however expensive. If I don’t use one for several months, it’s always a flip of the coin whether it’ll work without draining half the tank in self-cleaning cycles. Lasers are just vastly more reliable than inkjets. I can always count on my laser waking up and printing before falling back into a coma. I can’t trust any inkjet.

lmm 3y ago
> I’ve never had that experience with any inkjet, however expensive. If I don’t use one for several months, it’s always a flip of the coin whether it’ll work without draining half the tank in self-cleaning cycles. Shrug. I've used boring consumer HP/Canon/Epsom inkjets and never had a problem. I think the first printer my parents ever had 20 years ago occasionally needed to print a test page, but I haven't had that happen since then.