The future of painting
The future of painting
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My wife found a black and white Brother laser MFP at Goodwill for $15 and it has been an absolute game changer for us.
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Welcome to the Brotherhood.
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yeah I lived at a shared house and somone abandoned an HP 1020 laser printer. a sheet in 2.5 seconds and the toner cartridge lasts for a fuckin year, and I print flyers for events
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After losing my third or fourth shitty inkjet since college in a recent move, I needed to print something and found myself once again browsing the Staples flyer.
Eventually decided to spend a bit more up front and just got a Brother color laser.
Now it sits there quietly in the corner for months at a time, doing nothing, until I need it, at which point it is always ready, fast, and has great print quality.
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Bought one full price, and have no regrets. It's already paid itself off considering the amount I've saved on ink cartridges.
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Some routers have USB ports that support printers. Or, if you know Linux, you could set up a raspberry pi to make the printer available on the network.
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Ha jokes on you, I'll just call HP Painters instead! 😜
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Thank you for calling HP Painters! We would be happy to complete your painting job for the low, low price of $200! That's the up-front cost, then just a small subscription of $100/month on a 10-year contract.
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I love that they're located in Gary.
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Until you get a call from them saying the can of unused paint has passed it support date and you need to purchase a new one, but we don't sell those outright any more you need to get a $20/m subscription.
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And you have to buy them yellow paint NOT because they ran out, but because it got caked in the hose and clogged it up.
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I don't have a Brother printer. It was the not the best purchase I ever made (because I do not own one yet.)
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I get the joke but depending on the grey they may be using a bit of yellow if they want a warmer grey for example.
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Uncannily relevant, I just had this happen with my Epson printer the other day. Is there any printer you can get these days that doesn't do this?
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Brother BW laser. Can't require yellow ink if it only uses black toner.
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I have a brother BW laser and it's perfect.
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if you just need to print documents and other boring stuff, get a bw laser printer.
my canon mf3010 still works pretty well, even after like 7 years of use. -
I have an epson with the ink tanks on the outside and haven't had this problem, but also I'm not american and I'm pretty sure it's against my country's consumers law
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Brilliant
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So I’ve come across enough comments to know that Brother is the way I’m supposed to go for document printing if I don’t want to deal with enshittification. What if I want to print photos though? I don’t think Brother covers me in that area.
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Everyone says just go to the store. It doesn't cost too much and it'll be higher quality than any printer you can buy.
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Epson bulk ink printers are fine, ink is very cheap
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Most rage inducing thing of the day.
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So you'd rather the overpriced subscription printer service, where they supply the ink?
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They want a printer that doesn't require yellow ink to print black and white.
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It’s so they can print the tracking dots.
For the unaware: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/household-printers-tracking-code/
I do love it when a snopes article is about something being true.
Honestly, the USA is something special. So they do this, instead of putting modern anticounterfit (like polimer notes with transparencies) measures onto their notes.
Wow, I had no idea. I thought the joke was needing full ink in an unrelated color. I didn’t know about tracking. I’m sadly unsurprised.
I believe they missed this part of the memo
Hold up... Was "Reality Winner" the name of an individual or a business? Like, I was stunned by the fact the yellow dots thing is a thing, but then it starts talking about "Reality Winner" and I can't move on until I know what's up with that name. lol
i wonder: so what do the laser printers use instead?
I can't find the article I read, but if I recall correctly, they use patterns of minute variations in the power of the laser to cause a machine-detectable pattern to appear in the final printed output.
They also use microscopic yellow dot patterns. Black and white only prints use a microscopic grey print pattern at the print boundary. The technique is a form of steganography. They aren't tracking you btw. It gets used primarily to investigate fraud. Printer companies do it primarily because if they don't, their brand will become associated with print related crimes. There are lists of printers that do not do steganographic serialization but those machines are almost entirely too poor quality to produce any convincing counterfeits anyways.