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Who the hell can afford a printer (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The IT folk have printers. I spent several hundred on an office-tier printer years ago and have never done maintenance or even replaced the toner. It just works and will continue to work for years.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I rescued mine - an A3 colour laser with network and auto duplex, no less - from work's e-waste pile after "the purge" where they eliminated all single-user "personal" printers and moved to only shared printers with swipe card print release.

Have enough toner cartridges to last a lifetime too; its, or mine (either way).

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

All hail the e-waste pile. I have so many monitors, laptops, desktops, mice and keyboards from several of my old jobs that were otherwise going to be trashed.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this perhaps why? I thought it was because of kids.

I've had the same ink jet since 2016. The kids have done a good job keeping the jets from having a chance to clog. There is also a wall of family pictures, comparatively infrequent but it was the original reason for purchasing this specific printer. That and zero config printing from mobile devices

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's impressive! Mine is a laser printer so it's a bit different, in my experience inkjets are prone to issues so congratulations on having it so long!

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a brother I always figured that's why. It was purchased back when it was a highly recommended brand.

I only use branded carts and I've only had to run head cleaning on it a few times, at least one of those took several iterations. Frequent use might have helped.

But it's probably mostly luck and I hope no one takes this as an endorsement of the brand.

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I can also attest to the quality of brother (or at least I could 10-15 years ago)