I hate printers, with a passion
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You know it's going to be good when he starts spitting facts:
holds up 5 small ink cartridges
In front of me I have approximately $9,000 in printer cartridges.
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Well, Canon ar least used to make half-capacity cartridges and ship them in the printer by default so if you asked for the same cartridges as in the thing when you bought it, you’d get half-capacity replacements.
I assume Epson and HP at least pull the same stunt.
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@Arantor the 3ml he mentions seem to be a third of the normal “full” 10ml, which are still ridiculous.
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@Arantor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Well, Canon ar least used to make half-capacity cartridges and ship them in the printer by default so if you asked for the same cartridges as in the thing when you bought it, you’d get half-capacity replacements.
I didn't even know you could actually buy those "starter" cartridges. As if the normal ones weren't wasteful enough already.
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@Zerosquare I only learned this way because the shop I went to at the time explained it to me - turns out they refused to stock the starter cartridges.
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I don’t know if this is going to make it worse or better.
Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
Go native or go home: End of servicing plan rolled out for legacy printer drivers in fresh update
But I do know there gonna be
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@Arantor third party printer drivers always were a bad idea. Could only get better, if this wasn’t Microsoft.
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This could go into many many threads here, but in the end it is about printers. Though a Windows 10/11 fuckup.
a recent Windows Update has inadvertently rebranded various printers as “HP LaserJet M101-M106” on both Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems.
As a consequence, Windows 10/11 lusers received additional HP software as a bonus.
Windows Update accidentally renames all printers to HP M101-M106 on Windows 11, Windows 10
A Windows Update mistake has rebranded all printers to HP M101-M106, including Microsoft's PDF to Print on Windows 11.
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@BernieTheBernie said in I hate printers, with a passion:
This could go into many many threads here, but in the end it is about printers. Though a Windows 10/11 fuckup.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/2144601
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@BernieTheBernie said in I hate printers, with a passion:
This could go into many many threads her
But as noted, only two so far! #RookieNumbers
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@boomzilla at least 3, might be more if we count the original (install random apps) bug.
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@loopback0 said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@BernieTheBernie said in I hate printers, with a passion:
This could go into many many threads here, but in the end it is about printers. Though a Windows 10/11 fuckup.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/2144601
OFFS
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This isn't an Out of Context thread, so for people from the future to understand
's post above:
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@Zecc said in I hate printers, with a passion:
This isn't an Out of Context thread, so for people from the future to understand
's post above:At least it wasn’t the exact same article right after the original post this time.
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@BernieTheBernie said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Windows 10/11 lusers received additional HP software as a bonus.
So far, I haven't seen that on any of my machines...
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@dcon That's due to
location awareness, and it accidentally happened to be in your favor.
The machine requested aCaliforia warningfor the new update, and that warning then readmay cause cancer in California, and refused to install it.
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@BernieTheBernie said in I hate printers, with a passion:
The machine requested a
Califoria warning
California warning
On a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm
If I was in LA(
: "WERE"! NOT "WAS"!)
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HP's marketing department has heard your complaints! Now they have "less hated" printers!
HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers
Opinion: HP's printer business practices have infuriated users for years.
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@dcon said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@BernieTheBernie said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Windows 10/11 lusers received additional HP software as a bonus.
So far, I haven't seen that on any of my machines...
It looks like this.
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@error I think that the supplementary news is not at all "unrelated"...
EDIT: I observe once again that my HP printer continues to operate without any of these problems, despite it being at least seven years old.
Of course, it doesn't use "ink" cartridges (what is that?), and I've never needed to give HP any sort of card number, and if I had, I reported the one I would have given them as lost(1) in late 2016...
(1) Yes, I'm a klutz. I put my wallet somewhere at that point, and discovered the next day that "somewhere" did not correspond with "in my jacket pocket". I suck.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in I hate printers, with a passion:
my HP printer continues to operate without any of these problems, despite it being at least seven years old.
Hey! This is the printer-hating thread, watch your mouth!
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@error I think that the supplementary news is not at all "unrelated"...
EDIT: I observe once again that my HP printer continues to operate without any of these problems, despite it being at least seven years old.
Of course, it doesn't use "ink" cartridges (what is that?), and I've never needed to give HP any sort of card number, and if I had, I reported the one I would have given them as lost(1) in late 2016...
(1) Yes, I'm a klutz. I put my wallet somewhere at that point, and discovered the next day that "somewhere" did not correspond with "in my jacket pocket". I suck.
You wrote “despite” where you should’ve written “because”.
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@topspin said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@error I think that the supplementary news is not at all "unrelated"...
EDIT: I observe once again that my HP printer continues to operate without any of these problems, despite it being at least seven years old.
Of course, it doesn't use "ink" cartridges (what is that?), and I've never needed to give HP any sort of card number, and if I had, I reported the one I would have given them as lost(1) in late 2016...
(1) Yes, I'm a klutz. I put my wallet somewhere at that point, and discovered the next day that "somewhere" did not correspond with "in my jacket pocket". I suck.
You wrote “despite” where you should’ve written “because”.
No, I meant "despite" because cheapo inkjet problems weren't any less problematic back then(1), and because it's still working just fine after seven years of regular printing, where the cheapo types would have long since given up the ghost and died.(1)
(1) It was in 2001 or so that a colleague bought a cheapo inkjet with actually full starter cartridges for less than the price of a set of replacement cartridges. Well, I say "a cheapo inkjet, but in fact he bought two so he'd be ready when the first one emptied its ink. Good luck making that type of printer last seven years...
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Printer status: I may die early of toner-induced silicosis, but at least I managed to get that thing to print again without spending a cent
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As a cat, I feel offended to be compared to an inkjet printer.
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Complainants smack back after hardware giant moves to dismiss lawsuit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aoBK-K_K-Y
(it would also belong in "Things that remind you of
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@Zerosquare From a comment on the video:
This is the most authentic 90's computer experience I've ever seen on youtube.
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@Zerosquare said in I hate printers, with a passion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aoBK-K_K-Y
(it would also belong in "Things that remind you of
Le gasp! I've been at work and didn't see a new LGR video!
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@Zerosquare said in I hate printers, with a passion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aoBK-K_K-Y
(it would also belong in "Things that remind you of
Back when inkjets were new I was working at an office supply store selling electronics. I really wanted a Canon BubbleJet because they had an Epson-compatible mode, as in dot matrix commands. Pretty fancy printing for your Commodore 64.
Never got a chance to test it, sadly.
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Not watched the video, but the best printer I ever owned was an HP LaserJet III that I bought second-hand, early this century, when it was already approaching ten years old. Worked fine, every time, no hassle at all. The only reason I eventually replaced it was because some parts of the feed mechanism had worn out so it wouldn’t reliably pull the paper through anymore, and good luck finding spares for that.
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As unbelievable as it seems today, old HP Laserjets were known for their high reliability and serviceability.
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@Zerosquare that was back when HP actually had some tangible connection to quality. There was a time, so very far ago.
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It made me wonder if you could still get toner for a LaserJet III, and apparently, yes, you can, though everywhere I found it, it said supplies were limited.
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@Gurth yes because the stocks of HP ink that don't have DRM are finite.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hFoMkQCuqw
Today, we will take a look at the SM6337.02 – a vintage Soviet dot matrix printer made in Russia in the late 1980s. In my life, I've seen a lot of computers and devices manufactured in the USSR, but this one features an unbelievably low quality level. Technically, it is an Epson-compatible peripheral device with RS-232 and Centronics interfaces, and it comes with a few built-in fonts. However, from what I see, it is unlikely that it was functional even when it just came out of the factory. Even more bizarre it becomes when we take a short look at its military/KGB counterpart.
