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What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink?
An anonymous reader writes "A family member recently asked me to pick up more ink for her Epson Photo RX 595. Unfortunately, replacing the black and color ink cartridges costs $81.92 + tax at the local store! That's so bad that I got a replacement printer that's just as good, and spare ink, for less. But now I have a useless piece of e-waste that I can't even give away. What can you do with a printer like that? I hate to just throw it away."
Knowledge = Power P= W/t t=Money Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
I think you need some assistance with your simple algebra.
You... ARE aware that color laser printers have existed for... oh, well over a decade by this point? Probably two? I only recall color laser printers being advertised back in my high school days around 15 or so years ago, they probably existed not too long after the laser printer itself was invented in 1969...
Unless you're an AC troll. Which... okay, I can, from at least a base standpoint, understand a troll who wants to troll against something that matters. Picking sides, turf wars, primitive "you're different from me" attitude, etc. Sure, sure. But you're trolling against laser printers? What? Is the turf war between inkjets and lasers really THAT bad that it inspires trolls? d00d, ur ink is 2 lamez!1!!1! TONER CARTS 4TW
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
"we do computers, not electro-mechanical devices."
A printer is controlled by a computer microprocessor - if you can't fix it you don't deserve to call yourself a 'computer person.'
Oh, and what the fuck would you call a hard drive or optical drive, huh? It's an electro-mechanical device but I bet you do work on those!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Faulty screws never make it past the stress testing phase. If they don't break under those circumstances, they're fine for anything a human could possibly do. Whatever would break the screw would kill a human.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
How the hell does PostScript imply "doesn't need a driver?" Oh, you mean you don't "need a driver" because any UNIX app with print capability does so using PostScript? What this really means is that a printer driver is built into every fucking application that exists. That's RETARDED design. I don't want to have to figure out PostScript (which, when it comes down to it, is an implementation detail) just so my app can print something.
And don't even get me started on the fucked up architecture of App->PostScript->Pre-filter->Print-processor->Post-filter->lpr in order to speak to a printer that does NOT use PostScript. No, everything in the damn universe should not have to divert through PostScript land to speak to a simple raster-based print device.
Oh, did I mention that PostScript is device-raster based which means that any device that uses it (especially color devices) needs to have a shitload of RAM?
The "wonders" of PostScript are one of the largest mass-hallucinations in the UNIX world. Dude. I do not need my printer's PDL to be a Turing-complete programming language.