@nixCraft A frind of mine once said "Give it to your worst enemy, and buy a 2nd hand monochrome LASER"
Maybe a bit extreme, but he wasn't a fan of inkjets, especially HP ones!
I've had common sense results from a Canon TS5000 (home grade all-in-one) for about 4 years? The only thing is to remember to print some colour every few weeks, even if it's just stripes of CMYK totalling less than the size of a playing card.
Oh, and turn it off the official way, to make sure it parks the print heads.
@nixCraft I guess people have their use cases, but I still don’t get why inkjets are still a thing. I got a Brother wifi b/w laser printer for ~$200. I can print from anywhere on my network, including Linux machines. My previous printer went through maybe 2 cartridges, and I had it for 10 years.
I cannot recommend Epson EcoJet series enough. No bullshit and you can recharge your own ink. also the first charge that comes with it lasted me a year instead of a week. It also survived a transatlantic move.
*This is not a paid endorsement, just a fuck you HP post.
@nixCraft I love my HP printer. It's a little LaserJet 5L. Rescued it from the side of the road sometime in 2001-2002. Fixed its paper feed problem with a free kit from HP (made for the mechanically-identical 6L, but not offered for the 5). Plugged it into the network with a $20 Ethernet print server from Microcenter.
Still works fine to this day, and is a small part of why I won't buy a new HP printer. (Getting repeatedly cornholed by other HP products is the bigger part)
@nixCraft I'm waiting for my HP printer to die (so I don't create e-waste for no reason) so that I never have to have anything to do with HP ever again.
(their printer 'driver' is a nightmare of nagging bloatware too).
Bought my eldest an Epson Eco-Tank Printer 3 yrs ago for Uni and it's been a completely different ownership experience - will be switching to Epson when this HP one dies.
@nixCraft I threw away a perfectly good HP printer because aftermarket ink cartridges from other sources would not work in it, even after HP announced a workaround. A crappy, monopolistic way to do business.
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