I disagree. Maybe I am old, but I feel like printers in 1995 were easy to use, reliable, and did not play games with rejecting cartridges or making me install some random unnecessary stuff. Printers made in like 2005 and later are an abomination with nothing to compare to from the past.
Modern IPP laser printers are about as dead simple and set and forget as a dumb lightbulb. Put paper, electricity, and a print job in, and you get printouts. No bullshit.
Printers are actually amazingly decent considering how hard printing arbitrary content on paper is. Dealing with single sheet of paper each time. Putting tiny dots consistently over quite large area with very exact alignment. Doing all this relatively fast...
I mean it's not the technical sophistication that people have issue with. It's the intentionally degraded experience.
On another note, I'm not so sure about the speed either. Powering on the printer and getting it to print reminds me of how long it took to boot a computer back in the pre-Windows XP era.
I have used HP, Lexmark and Brother laser jet printers and they all worked well. I did, rather naively, buy a Canon inkjet to print to print in colour -- a very big mistake. With a B&W laser I can print 99% of my needs and just pop down to the local big box office shop to print the rare colour print and photos.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 23.8 ms ] threadOn another note, I'm not so sure about the speed either. Powering on the printer and getting it to print reminds me of how long it took to boot a computer back in the pre-Windows XP era.
I have used HP, Lexmark and Brother laser jet printers and they all worked well. I did, rather naively, buy a Canon inkjet to print to print in colour -- a very big mistake. With a B&W laser I can print 99% of my needs and just pop down to the local big box office shop to print the rare colour print and photos.