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Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by yieldcrv on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:50PM (#37475222)
That was fine for me until I had a special tax circumstance that couldn't be e-filed, hello gazillion pages! amongst the other random things I was printing at a library or fedex this pushed it over the edge

laser printers are the way

Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by j_mo on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:57PM (#37475279)
Half my family now owns the small desktop sized sub-£200 Kyocera laser printers. It was honestly revolutionary the first few times I was able to connect to their WiFi, hit add printer on my phone or laptop, press print, and it just worked with no drivers or network troubleshooting or anything.

They completely blow any consumer inkjet out of the water in ease of use, not having to install bloatware with popups telling you to buy more ink and preventing you from printing black and white when the magenta ink is "only" at 25%, printing speed, and the fact they don't outright break forever if you go 6 months without printing (where an Inkjet would often get irreparably clogged and be ruined).