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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago

The Printer That Simply Worked

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The Printer That Simply Worked

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago
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  • BoofStroke
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    25•2 years ago

    Linux/Cups. Postscript. Laser. Have never had a problem. Printers not working is a “put the logic in the Windoze driver” problem vs telling a good printer “Print this”.

    • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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      15•2 years ago

      My Brother laser printer/fax that looks like it came from the 90s is amazing and works with everything on default drivers. Mac, PC, Linux, Android, all of these work fine for me. The brother driver gives you more options if you care to install it, but you don’t have to.

      Inkjet is a different beast. Especially the ones that don’t let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink, or that check for “legit” ink refills.

      • @dan@upvote.au
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        4•2 years ago

        Especially the ones that don’t let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink,

        They need the colour ink to print the tracking dots :)

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

        https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots

        • The Ramen Dutchman
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          With how expensive colour ink is, that’s also stupid

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