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This is why I learned how to keep my ten year old printer up and running at all costs
It might take some jerry-rigging and MacGuyvering but it's worth it
:this: I'm rocking a printer handed down from my parents that's older than I am (HP Laserjet 4P). With a little bit of repair (astonishingly parts still seem to be relatively available, or they were last I looked) it would work perfectly, as is it works Fine^TM^, enough for the occasional form or shipping label. If I frequently needed color or huge stacks of documents printed really fast, I guess I might be forced to upgrade, but I don't, and I can print color at work, the library, etc. with no issues in the rare case I want it.
I bought a little print server off craigslist like 5 years ago so I can hook up to it over wifi rather than directly to the parallel port (think the size of a nintendo switch or smaller, its an embedded device not a PC), and I've replaced the toner once and taken it apart partway once. Very low maintenance. The toner replacement wasn't even because it was out of toner, just trying to improve the print quality. I hope it never dies, because basically every modern printer I've used since has been absolute dogshit that breaks down, clogs, has spyware, DRM, etc. and still costs more than just keeping this old beast alive. It's not even that big! though it is heavy.
The 4P is a total tank of a printer and very likely will outlive you if maintained well. Techbros love to tell people that they'll be better served by a modern printer with low-power standby but the 4P is actually the first printer to be equipped with a modern low-power standby feature, and as you've said is far more serviceable. Look for a cheap ram upgrade if you haven't already, you can sometimes find a kit that will max out printers of this vintage for $10-15. It likely won't help with day-to-day usage but if you ever have to print a large or complex job, it'll help a ton and it's not like it hurts to have.
I've heard about the RAM thing and looked around at kits a bit, but never quite understood the benefit so I haven't picked one up yet. Probably will eventually. I need to get better about maintaining it. rn I really have to crank the density settings to get dark blacks at all, probably something is failing slowly. But like I said it gets very rarely used. And yes! the "economode" lol. I just keep it fully powered off tbh but I don't print much. I didn't know this was the first model to have it, but I knew this was a very early home consumer oriented laser printer. My parents got it when one of them was in college in a very very paperwork-intensive program
I love having old, sturdy appliances rather than always buying a new piece of crap that will absolutely shit out in a year or two.
I've never had a problem with Brother's products, though I wouldn't be surprised if their ink machines do this.
They seem to one of the better modern options by far. But I have seen them break down in mysterious ways still, they aren't as bulletproof as say, an HP laser from the 90s
I suspect most people print so infrequently that the most economical option by far is to pay ten cents a page at the library.
Yeah, a super cheap inkjet printer like a canon Pixma ts-3522 costs like $40, and paper is like $5, so the ten cent library pages are cheaper if you're printing less than 450 sheets over the maybe 18 month period that your ink is good before you need to shell out another $30 for more cartridges because they dried out.
actually yes & I once drunkenly walked across campus with my roommate to the library at like 3am to prove to him that you could do this - which was egregious given that the university libraries literally had printers near the entrance to the stacks/study tables on all six floors with giant "USE YOUR UNIVERSITY ID OR A CREDIT CARD TO PRINT. $0.10/PAGE B/W, $0.15/PAGE COLOR" signs plastered on the walls around them and each printer had a book/document scanner right next to it specifically so you could copy & print anything from the library on the fly; yet he was so fucking adamant that there was no way you could print anything at the library.
makes me mad to this day because it was literally one of those 'you have uno motherfucker' kind of arguments where no one wins except the audience, some of whom still bring it up to this day whenever they see me because we were literally physically fighting each-other until his girlfriend went "can you two please shut the fuck up & just go to the library to settle this?? w-wait where are you going??"
Not even in the top 3 dumbest arguments I had with that fucking himbo throughout the year we lived together FYI
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It's again an infrastructure problem. I live in a small town where the library is not open all the time and often I need to print things on short notice (medical stuff) so I gotta own some kind of a printer (ironically I own an HP inkjet and it's serving me well with no issues whatsoever).
ive been wanting the epson ecotank. instead of cartridges you just buy bottles of ink and fill up the tanks. for the same price you can print over 10x the pages compared to cartridge printers
i don’t have a printer and im going to grad school soon and i feel like it would be good to have. i can afford it now, but my income in grad school will be a third of what it is now so i appreciate the savings on ink
If someone were to figure out how to make an open source inkjet printer, they'd be a hero.
They pitch this as a subscription service. You pay a flat rate each month to have ink shipped to you whenever it runs low. They heavily push the WiFi printing and if your WiFi shuts off or if you need to move the printer to a different network regularly, the setup is obnoxious every single time.
If you have a network printer and dont want it to phone home, set a static IP but leave the gateway address blank in the printers network settings.
How come no one has designed an open source printer yet? You can put together an open computer from Chinese parts, have an infinite number of handhelds, but no printers
Anyone got recommendations for a printer that doesn't need a fucking app? My last HP printer was borderline unusable because of all the garbage attached to it. I just want a printer that prints for fuck sake.
Just get a Brother printer you can't go wrong with 99% of them - although they do have some models that are solely network printing & have no USB/cable inputs which drives me up the wall as someone who likes to just throw whatever I need to print onto a flashdrive, so definitely do your due diligence