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BTW, I've had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have an Epson inkjet that I'm not going to throw away yet. It's 6 years old though, not sure if they still make it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My gripe with inkjets, expensive / DRM'd cartridges aside, is the ink just dries up or gets used in maintenance cycles whether you print or not.

Or is yours one of the tank models? I think those are less inefficient in that regard, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mine is a cartridge model, an XP-830 "Small-in-One" that gets used...maybe once a year. As I said I'm not throwing it away yet. Further info: I bought a tablet computer specifically so that I wouldn't have to print out my drawings for use in the wood shop, because I want to stop printing things entirely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Something I always enjoy during the TOS era movies is when they pull out actual paper. Like during Wrath of Kahn IIRC they pull out a physical paper book that has Reliant's SSH codes to disable the shields. Another happens during Undiscovered Country when they need to actually speak Klingon, they get out a bunch of paper books. The Federation has a printing office.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As far as I know, the tank models are just as bad. They need to flush the system, which they do onto a sponge which when saturated means the printer is broken.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

HP: furiously taking notes