[System32] No but like for real

Love my Brother black and white laser printer.

Disregard inkjet printers

Acquire laser printer

I will throw this idea into the ether and hope someone with more time, knowledge, and talent than me builds on it: swap the brains of an HP Printer with a raspberry pi. All the motors and wiring are in place, and HP sells the printer for cheap to screw you on ink and software. You'd probably want a new source of ink and a way to refill the cartridges to fully cut out HP. I feel like this would get you pretty close at an affordable price.

The whole world wants the Linux version of a printer, we just need a couple people to get together and figure this out.

Fuck you, HP

Also note that printers come with a smaller cartridge. Buying another printer isn't cheaper, even if it costs less.

*Goes through and upvotes all the comments about getting a Brother laser printer*

My advice, since as others have said inkjets are trash: If you only need to print something every so often, use your local library. Easier if you live close to one, and still a hassle loading it on a thumb drive, but to me it’s easier than having a printer taking up space in my home.

Pro life tip.

1. Buy a printer that accepts off-brand cartridges.
2. Buy off-brand cartridges in bulk for further discounts (I buy 12-packs of 'Hicorch' cartridges for my Epson Stylus)
3. Relax never having to worry about running out of ink.

Another way they get you: the ink cartridges that come with new printers are often only half full.

Living in Japan and being able to walk a block over to the convenience store when I need to print something every few months is the greatest daily life I've ever had with a printer.

Move over shockedpikachu.jpg

I have to press "keep on printing" on my printer for months now and every print is fine. This is just disgusting.

I had to print maybe 3 times in the last 10 years and just used one of those coin operated printer things. Does anyone still print that much to justify owning a printer?

it used to be that way... then they came up with 'starter' consumables with a fraction of the useful ink/toner inside.

LOL, but what about ecotank technology?

Yep. Can anyone explain why this is?

After I bought a bunch of inkjet printers and figured out ink tank modifications ..... I finally just bought a good Canon Inkjet Printer.

After ten years of messing around with these dumb printers for about ten years my inkjet printer has been working fine for the past ten years and I've only ever changed the toner once and never had any problems.

Anyone ever tried to assemble a compute cluster from these?

Get an ecotank printer

I have am epson ecotank and they actually make money on the printer instead of the ink, you fill the ink into tanks on the printer

I have bought a "starter" cartridge inkjet, a "premium“ AIO inkjet, and (supposedly) one-of-the-better-ones monochrome laserjet. All of them gave me nothing but grief. I used to think this was an accepted loss with the entire printing landscape, that it's a problem of the domain itself.

Turns out it was because I had always bought HP.

The last final printer I bought is a Brother inktank. It is not without its quirks, granted, yet I have never felt so easy.

God knows how much of a grief stricken, pain inducing, blood boiling, poisoned my life was– because HP. Once I switched to a different vendor, a burden of sorts was lifted.

i have had a total of 5-6 products in my lifetime from HP, and I'm pretty sure each one has easily taken out years from my life expectancy.

I have done this before!!!