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0 pointsrayiner9y ago0 comments

He should stop buying inkjet printers. You can pick up an HP m402dn laser printer on Amazon for $150. It's fast, plugs directly into an ethernet network, and handles full duplex without a hiccup.

It's a printer, what more innovation do you need?

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ssharp9y ago· 2 in thread

Once I realized home laser printers were cheap, I switched and it was the best decision on a printer I'll probably ever make. I can get generic toner cartridges for $15-20 that last a long time, don't yell at me if I don't replace according to their schedule, and print black and white super fast.

The printer I bought was a Samsung and cost right around $100. Compare that to my old HP inkjet that cost more than that and required upwards of 5 ink cartridges.

I don't get color printing out of this but I can't recall the last time I needed to print in color. If I want to print photos, it's cheaper and easier to just order them.

GFischer9y ago

Ironically, I bought a cheap Samsung printer (Ml2165W), and I had to flash its firmware to let it accept generic cartridges.

I ended up buying an used, better model, which had more generic toners available.

I hope HP doesn't start doing that crap.

mpnordland9y ago

HP already does, in fact, they don't let you refill either, although there are workarounds.

enraged_camel9y ago· 1 in thread

>>It's a printer, what more innovation do you need?

Yeah, a lot of people also said that about cellphones and then the iPhone came out. :)

justinlardinois9y ago

Calling bullshit on this. In the pre-iPhone era:

- Mobile internet access was prohibitively expensive (sometimes as high as a penny per kilobyte), browsers were terrible, and some even pushed for an alternative language to HTML for the mobile web. [0]

- Every phone was running a mobile JVM, but apps still had compatibility issues across models and carriers.

- Camera quality was horrid.

- Many phones had poor or inconsistent support for MMS, group texts, and visual voicemail. Even the iPhone itself didn't support MMS at first.

And these were problems even with the devices that were marketed as "smartphones" back then. Mobile phones were awful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language

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