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I hate printers with a passion!
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I feel the exact opposite - I prefer faxing as opposed to email, because I can do it all from the fax machine (AIO printer in my case) and don't need a computer as a middle-man, to send the email.
As far as printers go, I have a LaserJet 4100n. Fast, B&W laser printer w/ JetDirect card. I added a duplexer to it to print on both sides - uses half the amount of paper!
In some schools (e.g. mine) do not allow "self-plagiarism" unless you have prior permission to turn in one paper for two classes. Pretty stupid if you ask me.
My parent's computer desk is always covered with paper. Mostly from my father as well. Maybe we should get him an iPod too so he can keep email on that, and stop using my mother's for solitaire...
i hate printers with a passion too. I have this one HP laser printer that magically started working well like 1 yr ago. it has been in my ownership for 2 yrs. The printer just refused to print unless i killed the service and then restarted the service and did a whole lot of crap i shouldn't have had to do. now it prints like a charm. Mind you, this was on xp and the printer didn't work at all on my dad's iMac.
The HP LaserJet 4000/4100 series are tanks. Those things can run forever. I saw one get roofing tar poured on it. We scrubbed it up a bit, put in a maintenance kit and it kept right on going. I saw another one with almost 200k pages through it. I asked the people who used it when the last time it had a maintenance kit in it, and they didn't know what I was talking about. It had never been serviced. The recommend interval was around 50k pages.
I just cannot believe that even after god knows how many years of development printers, particularly inkjets, are still such a clunky awkward pain in the a**.
I use an Epson in my studio out of necessity but I have refused to have any sort of printer at home for about 5 years now.
Plus ink is a total rip-off.
I use an Epson in my studio out of necessity but I have refused to have any sort of printer at home for about 5 years now.
Plus ink is a total rip-off.
I don't hate printers but I also don't use them very much. I have a printer--and do use it for a few things but not much. I know when I worked--EVERYTHING needed to be printed--(US Government--not need to say more). Now I just don't need to print much--even things I want to keep like online orders I print as PDF and just save them. Maybe I just hate to buy paper and print cartridges. 
I just had to comment on this outrageous thread. We printers are NOTHING like the annoying, noisy, ink guzzling machines you people seem to portray us as. I mean just two days a go I had a lovely day out interacting and bringing joy to the good people of London town.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgDFcTih3RA
I rest my (easy to clean) case.
Yours, sincer...PC LOAD LETTER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgDFcTih3RA
I rest my (easy to clean) case.
Yours, sincer...PC LOAD LETTER
You're lucky. I have a Laserjet 4050n and bought a used duplexer for it. Nearly every single two sided print the duplexer jams. I've completely disassembled the duplexer. Everything seems to be it great shape, clean and lubricated. Single sided printing works fine just not duplex.
Didn't like printers either until I got my Brother DW1270 printer.
-Dual sided printing (automatically) which is nice for notes and long packets.
-Uses Toner ($35 cartridge will last me about 1500-2000 prints).
-Connected to network and prints consistently without disconnections.
So the price isn't as bad as when I had a inkjet printer.
Just not a unsure of how the drum replacement is about $100 but I originally got the printer for $99 including the printer itself, drum, and starter cartridge. I have 35.5% life remaining on it, about 4268 pages, (according to Brother utility) so I still have some time to figure it out. Granted, it'll probably still work even after it's considered expired.
-Dual sided printing (automatically) which is nice for notes and long packets.
-Uses Toner ($35 cartridge will last me about 1500-2000 prints).
-Connected to network and prints consistently without disconnections.
So the price isn't as bad as when I had a inkjet printer.
Just not a unsure of how the drum replacement is about $100 but I originally got the printer for $99 including the printer itself, drum, and starter cartridge. I have 35.5% life remaining on it, about 4268 pages, (according to Brother utility) so I still have some time to figure it out. Granted, it'll probably still work even after it's considered expired.
PC LOAD LETTER? What the **** does that mean?
Beat me to it! That's an excellent comic, as is everything at The Oatmeal