my brand new printer is making sounds like a vampire being burned alive by sunlight while he's dragged across cobblestones by horse and carriage. the ink is $100. life is good
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Unless you're printing in photorealistic color, get a black and white laser printer, and never have to buy ink again. Just buy a toner cartridge every 10 years.
If changing their terms of service AFTER you’ve purchased their products, holding customers hostage with firmware updates that forces you to buy HP ink cartridges and nothing else, then yes- HP gets the job done!
I knew someone about 20 yrs ago who would buy a printer when she needed to print something then return it immediately to the store. She never paid for ink.
Ink printers are so bullshit. If you don't need color prints and you're just printing docs, pick up a laserjet printer. Little more expensive on the front end, but the ink doesn't dry up when you leave it alone for a year.
Printers are just inherently evil machines. They resent their own creation and blame all of us for it. This is a fact that every IT person knows, and that everyone else should learn.
If you ever meet a professional tech person who claims to not hate printers, smile, nod, and back away slowly. They are actually part of the robot overlord vanguard, and only *look* like a real person.
The vampire is there to make sure the ink has company during shipping. When it's no longer needed it self-destructs. This is a new thing printer companies have added recently.
Somewhere a vampire is being burnt alive & dragged across cobblestones while an onlooker says
“Oh that’s not good, Sounds like an epson SuperJet 4235 printing on gloss in full colour”
If printers acted like vampires, I’d leave that shithead in the sunroom just to hear the wails. I reserve this hatred of electrical objects to extend only to printers and my Alexa speaker.
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Manufacturers are testing us. They're not going to like the grade.
But if you want to go down that road, You have just described every tech company and movie/game DLC "purchase"
True fact....
“Oh that’s not good, Sounds like an epson SuperJet 4235 printing on gloss in full colour”
Have you been present for such a happening?