It's been many years since printing from a PC involved little more than buying a printer and some ink, then purchasing extra cartridges when needed. Today, the...
  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15 days

    Thinking about my most recent desire to have a printer, which I haven’t had in many years, I was building a bed, and it would have been nice to have a cut sheet printout to take to the garage. Instead, I used my tablet, which worked well enough.

    It’s so rare that I use paper for taking notes, I have to track down something to write on, often it’s an envelope.

    It’d be nice to have a printer around for occasional use, but I’m afraid the ink would dry up between uses.

    • scrion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 days

      Get a cheap laser printer. The toner won’t dry out, and you can get a very reliable printer for cheap. The Xpress series from Samsung was cheap and very reliable. Unfortunately, Samsung does not manufacture printers any more and their printer business was bought by HP. I have no idea how new HP models compare to the old ones.

      I’d probably look at Brother, a monochrome laser printer can be had for $120, and Brother generally has a good reputation. If you want to print in color, that’ll be more expensive of course. Honestly, I haven’t had a color printer in 11 years and I don’t miss it, but YMMV.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        15 days

        I’ve had a monochrome Brother laser printer for about 14 years now. Still using the original toner that came with it, though it’s down to about 20% or so. Prints every time I need it which isn’t very often, but when I need to print something, I actually need to print it.