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Are Printers What They Used To Be?

Posted by Cliff on from the consumer-electronics-quality-control dept.

Fifster asks: "Has anyone noticed any trends in terms of printer quality nowadays? Perhaps it's just me being nostalgic, but I used to have an old HP Deskjet 500 maybe...ten years ago, and it worked for years. Sure, it wasn't colour, and it was noisy and somewhat slow, but it never died. After I decided to retire it and buy a fancy new colour printer with features I don't really need, I've gone through about a printer a year. I finally decided to get a Brother HL-1440 laser printer to avoid the cost of cartridges after my last HP died after I replaced an expensive cartridge. Has anyone else noticed this trend of poorer and poorer quality printers, at least in terms of life expectancy?"

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Word up, foo.

  2. High Frequency by LordMyren · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What does higher and higher frequency do?

    More data, obviously, but whats the effect on transmition?

    Followup question: what does it take to make vegitation not absorb radio signals? Do only lower frequencies have this property? Or is it some harmonic? What?

    Myren

    1. Re:High Frequency by BrainInAJar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Please inform me...

      What the hell are you going on about? This post seems to me at least, to be beyond offtopic, into the realm of the surreal.

      Everyone is now stupider for reading your post. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.

  3. Re: cameras already in printers by shadowbearer · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    Find a picture of a sheet of graph paper (sorry, no links, you'll have to find it on your own) and print a full 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of it. That'll give you a good idea of how accurate it is. /me has to go to bed, will check these comments in about 6 hours ;-)

    Sb

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  4. WHAT IS WRONG? WITH YOU PEOPLE by BARNEY+SICKENS+YOU! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    coffee==hot. even a freakin' moron!!!! knows this. do i need to be warned that my coffee is hot? he*l no. i would hope my coffee is hot. i'd sue if it were cold. no offence but Americans are the most fu*ked up !!!!!!!! people i've seen in a while. you folks just want to blame others. hate to admit that you're wrong and accept the fact that it was *you* that made the mistake. i mean, come on... how about asking your mom to write a big "WARNING: Dinner may be hot!!!" warning sign on your dinner plate?
    coffee == hot. end of story. what next? "Warning!!! fire created by matches might lead to burn injuries and can eventually burn down cities.." I am going to burn my house down then sue the match company for not telling me!!! that the fire! from the match!! was capable of doing so.!!! pathetic. i guess, what do i care, it's not my tax money going into waste in your legal system.