An decent SLA 3d printer (which will be much more accurate than an FDM printer) can get down to feature sizes of 150 microns. A 300dpi paper printer is hitting about 85 microns, and that’s not even a particularly high resolution printer.
Linux/Cups. Postscript. Laser. Have never had a problem. Printers not working is a “put the logic in the Windoze driver” problem vs telling a good printer “Print this”.
My Brother laser printer/fax that looks like it came from the 90s is amazing and works with everything on default drivers. Mac, PC, Linux, Android, all of these work fine for me. The brother driver gives you more options if you care to install it, but you don’t have to.
Inkjet is a different beast. Especially the ones that don’t let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink, or that check for “legit” ink refills.
Sadly the consumer laser printer market is in decline and a couple of companies have already exited. I’m not sure how much longer they’ll be available (new).
Home printing is a declining market overall, SMB printing has plateaued, and a lot of the die-hard laser printer users are moving away; because bringing big canisters of microplastics into one’s home is less appealing than it once was.
My wife would always call it World War 3 whenever I would go to print something with my inkjet. Finally bought a Brother colour laser a couple years ago. While my distrust of printers is still deep seeded, this printer and I are approaching something of a friendship.
I just bought one last week and holy shit you aren’t joking. Our Canon was malfunctioning for the last 2 years, so I finally bought a refurbed B&W Brother Laser. I’ve never had a printer just work like this. I didn’t even have to connect to it. My browser just automatically detected it, even on Linux.
I have one of their all-in-one colour toner machines for my GF’s business, it’s awesome. Scanning to an SFTP share means she can just feet a stack of paper into it and get a PDF in her Documents/Scans directory.
AND fun fact, there are no lasers in “laser printers” they all use 1D LED arrays to transfer the image data to the drum. Only the early toner based printers used a real laser and they were operating almost like a CRT, scanning a raster onto the drum.
Probably misspoke saying the browser is what detected it, but the first time I went to print anything was from Firefox and the printer was already there.
I just bought a new printer. After reading lots of reviews, it came down to Brother color laser and Canon color laser. Consensus seemed to be Canon was equally reliable with slightly better color quality.
I will talk shit about a lot of printers, but I’ve had a Brother workhorse laser for years. It’s black and white. You tell it to print and it spits out pages. I don’t know if they still make them that way but they used to be amazing at the very least.
I found a brother laser printer for 8 bucks at a thrift store and it printed with linux over USB as soon as I got it home without any tweaking.
I then directly networked it to a raspberry pi, configured it with cups and shared the printer over my network. Every device was able to discover it instantly and I can print from anything, android phone, ipad, mac, linux laptop, etc.
It’s absolutely freeing. I found an OEM toner cartridge for like 30 bucks, so I have like 2000 bw prints ready to go for like 40 dollars all in.
it took me an hour to scan and send 2 one page forms successfully. that’s about the same speed i could write everything on the pages by hand and address an envelope, so i’d say they work okay.
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This hits hard :'(
It’d be nice if there were open source printers. Somehow we have a few for 3D printers but not 2D printers, and it is annoying as hell.
An decent SLA 3d printer (which will be much more accurate than an FDM printer) can get down to feature sizes of 150 microns. A 300dpi paper printer is hitting about 85 microns, and that’s not even a particularly high resolution printer.
Source on SLA printer feature size: https://formlabs.com/blog/3d-printer-resolution-meaning/
It’s because the printer heads are really hard to make, since the individual nozzles are so tiny.
Linux/Cups. Postscript. Laser. Have never had a problem. Printers not working is a “put the logic in the Windoze driver” problem vs telling a good printer “Print this”.
My Brother laser printer/fax that looks like it came from the 90s is amazing and works with everything on default drivers. Mac, PC, Linux, Android, all of these work fine for me. The brother driver gives you more options if you care to install it, but you don’t have to.
Inkjet is a different beast. Especially the ones that don’t let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink, or that check for “legit” ink refills.
They need the colour ink to print the tracking dots :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots
With how expensive colour ink is, that’s also stupid
Oh, you mean laser printers?
Sadly the consumer laser printer market is in decline and a couple of companies have already exited. I’m not sure how much longer they’ll be available (new).
Home printing is a declining market overall, SMB printing has plateaued, and a lot of the die-hard laser printer users are moving away; because bringing big canisters of microplastics into one’s home is less appealing than it once was.
True that…
For now, we can hope the surplus from previous generation would last.
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The author of the book never had a Brother, it seems
This looks like an office jet pro 8720 which ironically is one of the printers I’ve had the least trouble with.
I’m running an Epson ecotank now though because the price per page is way better.
“Once upon a time, I bought a Brother color laser. It never failed to do its job. The End.”
My wife would always call it World War 3 whenever I would go to print something with my inkjet. Finally bought a Brother colour laser a couple years ago. While my distrust of printers is still deep seeded, this printer and I are approaching something of a friendship.
I just bought one last week and holy shit you aren’t joking. Our Canon was malfunctioning for the last 2 years, so I finally bought a refurbed B&W Brother Laser. I’ve never had a printer just work like this. I didn’t even have to connect to it. My browser just automatically detected it, even on Linux.
Printer support on Linux is honestly better than Windows.
I have one of their all-in-one colour toner machines for my GF’s business, it’s awesome. Scanning to an SFTP share means she can just feet a stack of paper into it and get a PDF in her Documents/Scans directory.
AND fun fact, there are no lasers in “laser printers” they all use 1D LED arrays to transfer the image data to the drum. Only the early toner based printers used a real laser and they were operating almost like a CRT, scanning a raster onto the drum.
Wait, what?
Probably misspoke saying the browser is what detected it, but the first time I went to print anything was from Firefox and the printer was already there.
My HL2270DW has been working flawlessly for nearly 10 years now.
Connects to any PC/mac on my home network. Always prints correctly. Toners are dirt cheap
Is OP using a 1998 cannon printer or something?
I just bought a new printer. After reading lots of reviews, it came down to Brother color laser and Canon color laser. Consensus seemed to be Canon was equally reliable with slightly better color quality.
I was just going to comment the same. My Brother laser printer has simply done its job for the last 13 years without issue.
Gotta be a Brother
I will talk shit about a lot of printers, but I’ve had a Brother workhorse laser for years. It’s black and white. You tell it to print and it spits out pages. I don’t know if they still make them that way but they used to be amazing at the very least.
They do, absolute workhorses with no bullshit. Only printer I will ever pay money for.
I found a brother laser printer for 8 bucks at a thrift store and it printed with linux over USB as soon as I got it home without any tweaking.
I then directly networked it to a raspberry pi, configured it with cups and shared the printer over my network. Every device was able to discover it instantly and I can print from anything, android phone, ipad, mac, linux laptop, etc.
It’s absolutely freeing. I found an OEM toner cartridge for like 30 bucks, so I have like 2000 bw prints ready to go for like 40 dollars all in.
it took me an hour to scan and send 2 one page forms successfully. that’s about the same speed i could write everything on the pages by hand and address an envelope, so i’d say they work okay.
PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean!?
It’s really disturbing just how relevant that movie still is today.
"Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you’re not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, “Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?”
No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you’d get your ass kicked sayin’ something like that, man.
The longer I work in the tech industry, the more I empathize with it. All the warning signs were there but I ignored them 😭
indeed
We could have Forerunner-level technology and the damn printers still wouldn’t work
Where programming?
Why do you think it doesn’t work?
(Besides the users)
Because boss put a windows xp netbook as a print server
My perception was that this sublemmy was about humoristic takes on programmers’ day to day, i.e. programming-related.
This is more IT-related, and the horse is dead and rotting.
Probably a “hey, you’re good with computers” so “you can fix the printer, right” thing too.
We know you can fix it, but don’t ever admit it!
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Yes indeed, we call them sublemmy because they’re mostly analogous to subreddits, but the official term is communities
I can’t even remember the last time I used a printer
You must not work for a company that went paperless then