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Re:Why do printers still suck? by barnabees on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:59PM (#24984498)
Do they really? I can't remember the last time I had a printer problem, and I print a lot. Printer hardware and software have gotten a lot better since 10 years ago.
Re:Why do printers still suck? by avmich on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:04PM (#24984548)
> and I print a lot

Exactly. Try to print every other month, and very different tasks - scanned images of cashier's receipts, color pictures a toddler drew in MS Paint, pages 87-112 from SICP, Bing Maps directions, an ASCII text from from a flash drive and the likes.

Sometimes you have to reset printer (with a button). Sometimes to cycle power off-on. Sometimes to download whatever's needed from a browser in a form of a PDF. Sometimes nothing works, and only by pure luck you can do something - not always - when completely misremembering steps which led to the printing.

And that's without ink problems.