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Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by bojan on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @09:09AM (#33623157)
I wonder how many of those printers are actually still functioning. There was a time once where you actually had to print stuff (anyone remembers MapQuest maps?), so I'm guessing there are still a lot of printers from that era collecting dust at people's homes.
Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by rtkwe on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @09:29AM (#33623519)
I swapped over to a laser printer for that exact reason. There's still a few things a year I need to print and the laser printer stays working through the lulls where I always had issues with inkjets clogging up.
Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by distances on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @09:39AM (#33623686)
And I walk to a nearby copy shop for my printing needs. At maybe twice a year it's a rare enough occasion that I refuse to keep a printer myself.
Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by rtkwe on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:25AM (#33624601)
I do shooting sports so I print a lot of targets for that too.
Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by olyjohn on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:06PM (#33630585)
That's what I do for photo printing. I use my laser for things like maps, tickets, instructions and forms. Love using it to print out instructions for use in the shop, where I can get my greasy fingers all over the paper, and not on my nice clean instruction manual.... When I need some color photos printed, I head to the print shop.
Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by jaywalk on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @09:46AM (#33623828)
Yes, I love my laser printer. It's somewhere around 10 years old, and has printed a grand total of 99 pages. But it's still happily using the same toner it came with, while an inkjet's ink would have dried out and needed replacing countless times.
Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by jwozn on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @09:49AM (#33623870)
I had an old HP printer from 2009 that I finally got rid of this year. The case was broken, the tray was falling off, and it spent years collecting dust. It still worked! Only the ink dried out. I'm curious about the reliability of printers, and how often people have to replace them.
Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by lijogdfljk on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:28AM (#33624666)
Yea i have a printer; a decent one (laser iirc) for my wifes college papers. We've not hooked it up in years though, and offhand i'm not even sure how to use it.. that's how long it's been lol. Hell, i'm not even exactly sure where it is ..