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Asking a Linux user to recommend a printer (tesseract.dubvee.org)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

dot matrix printer or nothing at all

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I remember trying to print HUGE gamefaqs guides on my dot matrix printer back in the day. Thing literally ran for over 24 hours to print some of the larger ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

and printing out the long banners in the banner programs :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh, and cool crab. cant forget cool crab

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

I can still hear them.

And it was also cool that when it seemed like it was out of ink, you could pop open the cartridge, spray the ribbon with WD-40, and get another 200-300 pages out of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Teletype or bust!