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What's up with that?

Guess I'll have to make my own from old tuna cans and used vax needles.

What's up with that? Guess I'll have to make my own from old tuna cans and used vax needles.

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I've had two colour lasers for years now, I hardly ever print anything so I like that they just work and won't just dry out and stop working

You can find 2nd hand bargains on eBay because nobody wants to post them, so search by 'local area' and go pick them up yourself

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They're going back and forth somewhere between San Clemente island, Catalina, and port of LA or locked up off the Mississippi probably.

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Have you tried to buy anything important lately? Supply chain issues everywhere.

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Extra large condoms are out.

Going in raw.

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huge demand for laser printers because the ink tanks last a long time as apposed to a cheap printer's ink that lasts two weeks. It took over a month to get mine.

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High demand would imply high production numbers, no?

When I got rid of our last "Tintenpisser" (Ink pisser) it was not to save money, it was to save my time and nerves from those hour long sessions of 'cleaning print head', 'test print', repeat. Ever since I bought the color laser, I haven't heard anything from my wife. Like "Printer's not working, can you take a look at that?"

Just checked, bought the machine in late 2017. Never, and let me repeat that: NEVER had any problems with it. It's now even running on cheapo third party toner cartridges. Which I had bought a set of right there and then.

You have to consider how much worth you apply to the time you spend fixing things.

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I bought a laser printer about five years ago, color laser printers were kind a new thing then, they were not worth the price they were selling for.

I don't print much, and haven't changed the starter toner cartridge. If I had an ink jet, I would have had to buy new cartridges every time I needed to print something.

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I bought a laser printer about five years ago, color laser printers were kind a new thing then

Um, what? Color laser printers have been around since the 1990s. HP introduced their first color laser printer, the Color LaserJet, in 1991. I bought my first color laser printer in 2000 for less than $500. That was over twenty years ago. How is that "kind [of] a new thing"?

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I don't think thats factual. Apple and HP developed their first color laser printers in 94/95, and they cost around $7000.

Still, they weren't new a few years ago apparently.. maybe the multifunction variety was new? I don't know.. if color laser printers were around for that long then it doesn't make sense why we put up with the costs of ink jet cartridges for so long. I know I could not find an acceptable color laser printer when I was looking, but I also very likely avoided HP from prior experience with their shitty products.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet

Key innovations Spring 1984 – First HP LaserJet Autumn 1991 – First HP Color LaserJet

In September 1994 HP introduced the Color LaserJet, the corporation's first color laser printer. The printer had an average cost per page of less than 10 cents. The Color LaserJet offered 2 ppm color printing and 10 ppm for black text, 8MB of memory, 45 built-in fonts, a 1,250-sheet paper tray and enhanced PCL 5 with color. It was priced at $7,295.

When I bought my Konica-Minolta MagiColor 2400W, it cost me $489 at Office Depot. I also bought a Konica-Minolta 1350 monochrome laser printer for $149 the next day. That was about twenty years ago. I still have both printers although I don't use either of them anymore.

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Don't think they were rare, then. Just a little on the expensive side maybe.

My step dad had a copy and shirt printing business. He had the first color lasers I ever saw. They were huge and expensive and usually little bitches when they didn't like the environment, they were placed in. They were also 2nd hand because he couldn't afford new hardware when he started out. All that happened like 15 years ago. Am I off by much?

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It sounds like your talking about one of those large multifunction commercial type printers. I don't know when the smaller printers actually hit the shelves, but when I was shopping for a printer there weren't many color models. That was back in 2016.

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I call them 'malfunction' printers. Too complex for their own good. Or very good for the dealers service dept.

Confession: I really don't, but that's how I like to imagine things.

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Don't buy any of the new HP printers, most of them now require you to create an HP account to use the damn thing.

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At work we still use one of those genuine hp relics each day. An HP 4194A. An HP, no fricking Agilent, no Keysight. A real HP with a CRT.

Edit: What I really meant to say was: That the crappiest products have inherited the once legendary logo makes me sad.