I’ve had an operational printer in the household since around the year 2000, and I cannot fathom not having access to one. I would be a virtual headless chicken running around wailing about gutenburg or something.
Switching from Ink to Laser printers was a game changer as far as maintenance and costs (you can pick up a reconditioned laser printer from the early 2000’s from a company that specializes in refurbing them and rock it for decades).
i mean, yeah i have had a nice working brother printer for a few decades, but i got a library card too. My employer can afford 10 cents a page if they want me to print.
Having a home printer allows for easy printing of shipping labels, zines, letters, etc.
As for books, it can be useful for rarer books that a library may not have access to, though that is a bit more rare of a need.
What the fuck? How do they return shit they don’t want? Do young people just keep everything they order?
it’s in the meme- they print things out at work to use at home
You’re kidding, right?
I mean, the tweet says it - work printer. Though in all seriousness, I think the last time I needed to print a return label, I think I just did it at the UPS store for a few cents.
You cross out the address and write “return to sender” ? What has a printer got to do with it
Printers are scams…the end
This is me. Now that I work from home, if I need to print something (maybe 3 times per year), I use a mailing service that will print a pdf and send it to my place. It cost 2€ per document, takes 2-3 days to arrive, but it is still cheaper and less painful than buying a printer.
Why not use the local library? They often offer print services
The printer was removed from my library years ago because it was broken: they didn’t have anybody to fix it and didn’t want to buy a new one.
It’s not even the cost for me – it’s the space! Valuable space on a table or shelf that could be used by something that brings joy to my life instead of a machine.
Not just any machine, the most foul, wretched, cursed devil’s machine
Work gave me a tiny HP LaserJet 8 years ago, and it was old then. Rock and roll. Toner is $20 a pop and goes 1,000 pages.
As to space, it’s racked next to my tiny server rack. Still takes space?
I had to get one during covid lockdown since I wasn’t going to the office and staples messed up my jobs most of the time (and it wasn’t cheap). I got a laser all-in-one and got knock off toner from Amazon and it works great and I got it for less than $90
If this is me in several years, I think my version will be “my precious pre-enshittification brother laser is so old they stopped making third party toner carts for it” or probably more likely something like “how do we have a working plugged-in printer on wifi that we can’t find? Did we build a wall in front of it? How long was it sitting in the corner of that spare room?”
You guys have work printers?
Just playing, I have a Brother color laser printer. Had it for about 7 years, replaced the toner only once, prints fantastically. I mostly use it as a scanner and printing coloring pages for the kid.
Norway is pretty much paperless I only use the printer to print colouring pages for the kids.
The entire printer industry is being funded by our grandparents, I am not fucking joking. My grandpa has bought MULTIPLE printers last year alone, please some one send help.
Help in the form of more printers?
No, he obviously needs a fax so he can receive your message
My entire family for probably 30 years thought i was gaslighting them about how bad my grandfather is with computers. And phones. And the internet. And phones.
He’s 93 and he’s convinced them really well these last 5 years or so. It’s a nightmare lol.
What? I have a working printer and a box full of power cables.
Was gunna say, I have 3.
Brother b/w Laser Printer - Most things
Epson Ecotank - Color prints (usually stickers/heat transfer vinyl + cutting machine below printer)
Canon PIXMA large format - Got this one for free, I use it to print 18*24 (usually knock off posters for photography sets, or cus I HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE MY OWN BOOTLEG POSTERS FEAR ME)
Brother b/w laser ftw
I haven’t had a printer in maybe a decade. No, more than that. Like fifteen years.
Got a few lying around somewhere. It’d take weeks to get them working. Fuck it I’ll just print to a pdf and email the file.
Given the extortionate cost of printer ink, owning a printer is a mug’s game. Much like owning a car if you live in a walkable urban environment but might need to drive somewhere once every year or two.
i had to print 2 whole pages a few years ago, and gone to a office supply store. told them i would like to pay for it by card…cashier told me if i use the card, the banking transaction cost more than printing two a4 papers, so long story short it was free.
these stores usually have a printer so expensive i wouldnt be able to pay for it with all my organs, but its cheaper to print there then having a printer at home.
as for work, i dont like the looks people give me when i print there. i like to keep my private life out of the office, i recommend the same. if you want to print out a long ass book however, and nobody cares at work, go ahead.
Who the hell can figure out how to make a printer work
