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Are Printers What They Used To Be?
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?"
Lies! All LIES! From what I've seen some of the combo printer/scanners literally do calibrate themselves -- You print the test page, pop it on the scanner, and the printer does the rest on it's own.
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but teach a man to phish...
No, it's not nostalgia until you've reached daisy wheel
How about golf-ball?