• HouseWolf@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Half my family just email whatever they want printing to my Dad and he prints it at his workplace.

    We’ve owned multiple printers over the years but 8/10 no matter what device you used, The printer just didn’t work. The “Dad strategy” has never failed.

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      3 months ago

      I’m on your dad’s role but for my family. It is pretty annoying specially when they can’t explain properly what they want so you have to do guesswork. Anyway it nice when people trust you so long the do not take you for granted.

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      3 months ago

      Rarely used inkjet? If so, your ink dries before you can use it, I’ve had it happen after like 3 pages and then letting it sit, dry next time I try. Laser printers don’t do this, the toner will sit for a long time, and it seems to last longer in general.

      If it isn’t that, but the brand is HP, the problem is that your printer should never have been born and should be thrown back into the fires from whence it came. Terrible, terrible printers.

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        3 months ago

        The one kept at home until recently was some early 2000s white(yellowing) and blue thing, might have been Laser.

        We had an Inkjet sometime around 2014 and went back to using the old one because it worked more of the time.