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Printers are complex robots, require frequent supply refills, and are high touch interactions with people. (people printing things wrong, people misusing print
by colechristensen 5mo ago
Printers are complex robots, require frequent supply refills, and are high touch interactions with people. (people printing things wrong, people misusing printing resources, managing quotas for same, etc.)
It's not just firmware.
- coldtea 5mo agoIt's 100% just firmware + crappy business model. Printers are hardly "complex" - a few very standard gear/roller/sensor based mechanisms we've built for 4 decades pretty identically with hardly any innovation. Besides far more complex frequent-use devices don't have such shit problems and experience. Nor is "you're out of blue ink, you can't print this b&w document" or "you didn't install the official $50 cartridge, but a third-party $10 one, you can't print" and such crap related even remotely to printers being "complex robots" or "requiring frequent supply reffils".
- colechristensen 5mo agoYou're talking about printers at home. We're talking about printers at work.
- coldtea 5mo agoSame shit. Same shit vendors too.