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I own a Canon MP272. Looks nice, prints and scans. That's the up side. The downside. It don't print anymore, prefers to chew up the paper, for no obvious reason. I've looked at it, shaken it, taken it to bits. Nothing obvious causing the issue. Then there's the ink. Why is printer ink so expensive? The Canon MP272 has one huge design flaw. If the ink is out, it refuses to allow the scanner to work? how nuts is that. Time to buy a new printer. It'll be my second in as many years. When they do play up, it's stressful. They always tend to go wrong at the most inconvenient of times. Frustration sets in. Stress levels go up. Today I found myself bizarrely enough, typing in the words to YouTube kicking the shit out of printer Watching this video made me laugh, and lowered my stress levels .gif) |
Printers - Great when they're working. Could use improving.
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caligari 17,956 posts
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Registered 20 years agoUrgh - I'll never buy another one. I'd rather pay to print essentials out at the local library.
I picked mine up the other day - walked downstairs - and plopped it in to the wheelie bin.
Probably a bit hasty as the scanner part still worked - but I like to think it was my 'Office Space' homage. -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThey're only about £2.50 for a new one. -
Got a printer/scanner combo thing.
Not used the printer part in an age and a bit.
Basically just have a scanner.
And I barely use that.
It's mostly just a big dark grey box with a lid and a little screen.
But it's nice to have, just in case. -
The thing with a scanner though, is the two times a year you need them, you REALLY need them -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years ago@PES_Fanboy for what? I find myself taking pictures of stuff instead. -
Scanning your passport / driving license etc -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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dominalien 10,703 posts
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Registered 15 years agoInkjets are a waste of money, some more so than others. Who prints photos these days anyway? Lasers are better.
Edited by dominalien at 08:25:53 26-11-2014 -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoPES_Fanboy wrote:
Take a picture of it. That's what I do.
Scanning your passport / driving license etc
If you need a copy of an old photo then I see the need for a scanner.
But all that other stuff I use my phone nowadays. Makes it easier to mail it as well. There are apps that clean them up and crop and what have you. -
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dominalien wrote:
This. Laser printers are relatively cheap these days and work much more consistently and the consumables are cheaper in the long-run.
Inkjets are a waste of money, some more so than others. Who prints photos these days anyway? Lasers are better. -
solarspot 292 posts
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Registered 8 years agoWe have a HP printer, it worked brilliantly until the PC died and we got a new one with Win8 on it. I imagine it still would work quite well if we could get the PC to tell it to print but that is a struggle.
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mothercruncher 19,474 posts
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Registered 15 years agoFucking despise printers. Hunks of dusty plastic that feel full of promise initially, before it quickly becomes evident that the expensive cartridges are sold 1/4 full, and the printer is programmed to detect the cheap refills and throw a fit, and that minuscule spring that pinged off some way back turns out to be VITAL if you aren't to get constant "print head needs attention" messages and the shitty software is ridden with holes that act like beacons for malware and that part you need to replace is priced at more than the sodding thing cost in the first place..... Sheesh.
Anyhoo. The latest piece of shit Kodak printer has given up the ghost so I need a new one. I think half the trouble is that the inkjet heads get manky after printing colour photos and then sit for weeks while the whole mess gloopy hardens up.
Slightly higher cost, but finer print quality if I remember from college correctly, for an occasional couple of tickets, quick receipt every second month etc, are lazerjets any more robust and reliable a system than inkjets these days? -
Depends on what kind of money you're willing to spend... To get any kind of decent colour LaserJet you'd really need to be doing a serious amount of printing in order to justify the cost (and if you thought refills were expensive before, you're in for a scare!!), but if you're just printing out a few tickets every now and again as you say, you're probably better off sticking with £30 inkjets.
For the record, I fucking detest printers and look forward to the day when the cunting things aren't needed/used any more -
I bought a new printer about six months ago and it was a fucking revelation. Color laser, scans TO THE FUCKING CLOUD without the need for a computer and fully wireless so I can just print to it from my phone.
I realise all of these things aren't new. But they are to me. -
Goban 10,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWhat kind is it? I've been printerless for 2 years now. Starting to do my head in. -
I think it's this one:
http://www.printerland.co.uk/Epson-Aculaser-CX17wf-P118050.aspx?source=AddwordsC11CB71081BY&gclid=CIW9xrW2yskCFQic2wodtBAMGQ
If you don't do much printing, their inkjet Workforce models do very similar quality, do all the stuff on the cloud and are about £80.
I will print the shit outta this one hence spent a fair bit.
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mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoMy last printer was built like a tank (and nearly cost as much originally). I bought it in the late 90s, but after a couple of years it was no use for colour stuff, as it predated photo printers, and I rarely used it for anything else, having access to a suite of printers at work.
Took a bit of work getting it down the tip, and it made a hell of a bang when I dropped it in the skip. -
Zeffi 1,070 posts
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Registered 7 years ago- New Printer £40, includes 2 ink cartridges.
- 2 replacement ink cartridges, £45.
lol
Try to print a black and white document, sorry - out of yellow ink.
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mrpon 37,366 posts
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Registered 15 years agoStar LC10, what a printer!! -
neilka 24,021 posts
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Paulanator 622 posts
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Registered 15 years agoCan anyone offer any assistance please. I bought myself a cheap and cheerful Canon Pixma 2950 printer to use with my Chromebook as it clearly states on the spec and the box that it is Google Cloud Print ready but I can't for the life of me get it to connect/my Chromebook to recognise it.
Anyone with a similar experience that could help.
Thanks muchly
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magicpanda 15,130 posts
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Part of our installs at work involve printers. Usually two or three existing printers that have to be shared and then mapped to on other PCs.
Our schedules literally look like this:
AM: Get access to servers, install server software, install SQL database, import site data into database, connect server software to third party demographics database, create shortcuts on client PCs, install client software, install and configure USB hardware ~15x, test.
PM: Install the printers. Hope you don't have to come back the next day to finish installing the printers.
In fairness weird corporate networks don't usually help. But for fucks sake just print like
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