Gregory's Server@ifixcoinops HP are the *worst* for that
I'm like actually angry about having one in my house
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 @lotographia @essjax @ifixcoinops You’ll probably find the scanner doesn’t work if you let the printer run out of ink. @billbennett @lotographia @ifixcoinops mine insists on randomly setting itself to 'letter' size, and trust me I know that awful web interface for settings inside out. It ain't me being daft. When it actually died on me, they replaced it under warranty and the new one has exactly the same problem.  @essjax have you folks heard of AntiFeatures? They're the sort of thing printer manufacturers focus their innovation on... I consider printers (and, especially Ink Jets and their ink) to be one of the great farces of our age. e@billbennett@mastodon.nz @lotographia @ifixcoinops @essjax useful resource on AntiFeatures: https://wiki.mako.cc/Antifeatures the author, @mako, coined the term, I believe. @lotographia @ifixcoinops @essjax @lotographia @ifixcoinops Mine keeps resetting the wifi connection and finding it again from the laptop is a major pain in the bum because I have to enter a long, complex easy to stuff up password via a tiny LCD screen keyboard. @billbennett @lotographia @ifixcoinops oh yep I have that sometimes too. I don't have an anger management problem, I consider myself fairly chill, but that HP presses my buttons 💥 @essjax @lotographia @ifixcoinops Me too. Also, I often need to scan in a hurry… and often that just isn’t possible. @billbennett @lotographia @ifixcoinops oh they can detect when there's a hurry on, it's always that time when they refuse to cooperate 😁 @essjax @billbennett @lotographia @ifixcoinops Dealing with an inkjet printer is like being on the phone with Comcast! @lotographia @essjax @ifixcoinops @irix @lotographia @ifixcoinops i bet an old HP LaserJet 4 from the mid 90s and a million pages printed would work bloody fine eh. I remember when they were *good* @essjax @lotographia @ifixcoinops Funny enough I went googling for HP LJ4 toner cartridges on the off-chance they were still made... then I realised the devices'd be a quarter century old 😂  @irix @essjax @lotographia @ifixcoinops but still printing in volume, surely! @essjax @irix @lotographia @ifixcoinops I had one till last year and sadly, the seals are fragile now, so it just smears across the page @irix this tracks. Picked up a LaserJet Pro 400 at an auction for nearly free. Had 40000+ pages printed on it, worked perfectly in first print. Hell someone even left me paper and a basically full toner cartridge in it. @DialupDownload I figure its like fleet-cars, they can get thrashed around so bit of a gamble buying a used one but the benefit is that for printers the contracts are often pay-per-printed-page so they get well serviced (downtime means no $$ for the vendor) and tend to be optimised for serviceability, reliability, consumable-efficiency over bells & whistles. @essjax @ifixcoinops it's sad because my HP 1200 laser from 1997 has printed 13k one-sided sheets for me and is not bad in any way.  @essjax @ifixcoinops I have an HP printer on my network, bit excessive for 2 user's I know The best trick I know is to set the IP address manually & don't set a gateway address so the printer can't call home or download updates |
@essjax @ifixcoinops Same, I wanted a scanner and for some reason it was cheaper to buy a HP printer/scanner than a standalone scanner, and now I understand that the unspoken part of the printer/scanner deal was printer/scanner/satan