#no printer

[excusemeaminute]

Good 👏 Morning 👏 to 👏 BOLO 👏

#critical role #exu calamity #bolo #exandria unlimited #exandria unlimited calamity #FAX #no printer #critical role spoiler #critical role spoilers

[simsandgiggles]

Max: honestly why am I always stinky? at this point I should call sim protective services on myself.

#facts #no printer #sims 4 #ts4 #the sims 4 #lepacy #normal lepacy #normal17

[earthtooz]

to maintain my kind reputation i choose to not reply to you about the poll 🙂

thank you shawty, you're so kind 😜

#i'm sorry mizuki 💔 #i speak truth #no printer #*wipes away sweat* #≡; ꒰ ° moots: zuki :p #escapenightmare #earf's inbox hours ✌️

[unallegiant]

wait

wait why haven’t i ever heard of muffin toast

wait why is it actually good tho

#meme #memes #haha #funny #dank memes #lol #humor #hahaha #ha #twitter #food #food tips #life hax #no printer

[littlebabynothingz]

bro the smell of marlboros is top tier and if you say different you’re either lying or you have trauma

#it’s just the fax #no printer #shut up cass

[casmick-consequences]

Yeah you totally copied lmao 🤣

Let's leave it to the people:

I think we have a clear answer here 🤷🏻‍♂️

#idk what its referring to tbh sjssjjsj #its what happens when u try to convey a message as an anon #oh well #polls #funny #copy #fax #no printer

[honetii]

I'm like super normal and not unhinged in the slightest (I spent 3 days formatting, printing, and binding a niche internet story about sci fi football into a 280 page physical book)

#it's a little crusty around the edges but. i am not a professional i just like binding books #the colored dots are bc my printer is strictly black and white and i needed a way to differentiate text colors #so. posca pens. #all the videos are QR codes !! #17776 #is there even a fandom for this i legitimately don't know #if there is i love y'all

[389]

Specimen, Fanette Mellier Context: Pôle graphisme de Chaumont, 2009 
Printed by: Imprimerie du Petit-Cloître
 Description: 120 × 176 cm

This poster, announcing a series of “graphic design and publishing” themed shows, isn’t a conventional image. It’s more of a printed object linked to its subject. The front, fully saturated with color and technical elements related to printing (scale 1), is offset printed with a very thin raster. This space saturation, like an obsessive canvas, presents graphical tools that are a common vocabulary for books makers. The title and info are printed on the back. The fold lets the title appear: the poster becomes informative and evokes at the same time the delicate materiality of a page.

#art #printer #printer marks #colors #cmyk #rgb #fanette mellier #abstract #design #graphic design #u

[foone]

why are printers so hated? it's simple:

computers are good at computering. they are not good at the real world.

the biggest problems in computers, the ones that have had to change the most over the time they've existed, are the parts that deal with the real world. The keyboard, the mouse, the screen. every computer needs these, but they involve interacting with the real world. that's a problem. that's why they get replaced so much.

now, printers: printers have some of the most complex real-world interaction. they need to deposit ink on paper in 2 dimensions, and that results in at least three ways it can go on right from the start. (this is why 3D printers are just 2D printers that can go wrong in another whole dimension)

scanners fall into many of the same problems printers have, but fewer people have scanners, and they're not as cost-optimized. But they are nearly as annoying.

This is also why you can make a printer better by cutting down on the number of moving elements: laser printers are better than inkjets, because they only need to move in one dimension, and their ink is a powder, not a liquid. and the best-behaved printers of all are thermal printers: no ink and the head doesn't move. That's why every receipt printer is a thermal printer, because they need that shit to work all the time so they can sell shit. And thermal is the most reliable way to do that.

But yeah, cost-optimization is also a big part of why printers are such finicky unreliable bastards: you don't want to pay much for them. Who is excited for all the printing they're gonna be doing? basically nobody. But people get forced to have a printer because they gotta print something, for school or work or the government or whatever. So they want the cheapest thing that'll work. They're not shopping on features and functionality and design, they want something that costs barely anything, and can fucking PRINT. anything else is an optional bonus.

And here's the thing: there's a fundamental limit of how much you can optimize an inkjet printer, and we got near to it in like the late 90s. Every printer since then has just been a tad smaller, a tad faster, and added some gimmicks like printing from WIFI or bluetooth instead of needing to plug in a cable.

And that's the worst place to be in, for a computer component. The "I don't care how fancy it is, just give me one that works" zone. This is why you can buy a keyboard for 20$ and a mouse for 10$ and they both work plenty fine for 90% of users. They're objectively shit compared to the ones in the 60-150$ range, but do they work? yep. So that's what people get.

Printers fell into that zone long, long ago, when people stopped getting excited about "desktop publishing". So with printers shoved into the "make them as cheap as possible" zone, they have gotten exponentially shittier. Can you cut costs by 5$ a printer by making them jam more often? good. make them only last a couple years to save a buck or two per unit? absolutely. Can you make the printer cost 10$ less and make that back on the proprietary ink cartridges? oh, they've been doing that since Billy Clinton was in office.

It's the same place floppy disks were in in about 2000. CD-burners were not yet cheap enough, USB flash drives didn't exist yet (but were coming), modems weren't fast enough yet to copy stuff over the internet, superfloppies hadn't taken over like some hoped, and memory cards were too expensive and not everyone had a drive for them. So we still needed floppy disks, but at the same time this was a technology that hadn't changed in nearly 20 years. So people were tired of paying out the nose for them... the only solution? cut corners. I have floppy disks from 1984 that read perfectly, but a shrinkwrapped box of disks from 1999 will have over half the disks failed. They cut corners on the material quality, the QA process, the cleaning cloth inside the disk, everything they could. And the disks were shit as a result.

So, printers are in that particular note of the death-spiral where they've reached the point of "no one likes or cares about this technology, but it's still required so it's gone to shit". That's why they are so annoying, so unreliable, so fucking crap.

So, here's the good news:

You can still buy a better printer, and it will work far better. Laser printers still exist, and LED printers work the same way but even cheaper. They're still more expensive than inkjets (especially if you need color), but if you have to print stuff, they're a godsend. Way more reliable.

This is not a stable equilibrium. Printers cannot limp along in this terrible state forever. You know why I brought up floppy disk there? (besides the fact I'm a giant floppy disk nerd) because floppy disks GOT REPLACED. Have you used one this decade? CD-Rs and USB drives and internet sharing came along and ate the lunch of floppy disks, so much so that it's been over a decade since any more have been made. The same will happen to (inkjet) printers, eventually. This kind of clearly-broken situation cannot hold. It'll push people to go paperless, for companies to build cheaper alternatives to take over from the inkjets, or someone will come up with a new, more reliable printer based on some new technology that's now cheap enough to use in printers. Yeah, it sucks right now, but it can't last.

So, in conclusion: Printers suck, but this is both an innate problem caused by them having to deal with so much fucking Real World, and a local minimum of reliability that we're currently stuck in. Eventually we'll get out of this valley on the graph and printers will bother people a lot less.

Random fun facts about printing of the past and their local minimums:

in the hot metal type era, not only would the whole printing process expose you to lead, the most common method of printing text was the linotype, which could go wrong in a very fun way: if the next for a line wasn't properly justified (filling out the whole row), it could "squirt", and lead would escape through gaps in the type matrix. This would result in molten lead squirting out of the machine, possibly onto the operator. Anecdotally, linotype operators would sometimes recognize each other on the street because of the telltale spots on their forearms where they had white splotches where no hair grew, because they got bad lead burns. This type of printing remained in use until the 80s.

Another fun type of now-retired printers are drum printers, a type of line printer. These work something like a typewriter or dot-matrix printer, except the elements extend across the entire width of the paper. So instead of printing a character at time by smacking it into the paper, the whole line got smacked nearly at once. The problem is that if the paper jammed and the printer continued to try to print, that line of the paper would be repeatedly struck at high speed, creating a lot of heat. This worry created the now-infamous Linux error: "lp0 on fire". This was displayed when the error signals from a parallel printer didn't make sense... and it was a real worry. A high speed printer could definitely set the paper on fire, though this was rare.

So... one thing to be grateful about current shitty inkjet printers: they are very unlikely to burn anything, especially you.

(because before they could do that they'd have to work, at least a little, first, and that's very unlikely)

#printers #my writing

[ahhrenata]

#made myself a bookmark.. the wip from a while back is finally done #now i just gotta get my printer out #Star Wars #clone wars #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #obi wan kenobi #sw art

[saturnvs]

and as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual

#two headed calf #laura gilpin #art #illustration #poetry #gouache #sketchbook #my art #i cry i cry i cry #meheheh figured out the scanner on my home printer. from now on all traditional art will be scanned :'D

[gracefuldisasters]

My attempt to redeem the robot child from Sonic Underground. This time he doesn't explode, and Aleena gets a grand-child.

I don't know what the writers were on, but I think better naming conventions could've been chosen here

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic underground #manic the hedgehog #sonia the hedgehog #hip the hedgehog #cursed sonic underground baby #my stuff #hp printer the hedgehog

[kitty4president]

LIFE HACK: buy a budget 3d printer where one of its main flaws is “unable to house full-size filament spools” & then use it to print a whole new compartment attachment that allows it to house full-size filament spools 👍👍👍

EDIT: ok i have no fuckin clue why this blew up so much but since ppl r asking the printer is a flashforge adventurer 3 lite & the compartment print files (which i didnt design myself) can be found here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4899516

#fuk the police #also hi i own a 3d printer now lmfao #kitty says stuff

[sweaterbob]

🤐 GETCHA MONEY YALL 💰

and yo don't be idolizing these celebrities

#crashclub #crash club #💯 #💯 real #facts #true #relatable quotes #memes #fax #no printer #freedom

[clawmarks]

Schrift-Proben von Schriftgiesserei - Benjamin Krebs - via Paris bibliotheques

#printers ornaments #flowers #decoration #floral motif

[tsotc]

I HATE PRINTING I HATE PAPER JAMS I HATE INK CARTRIDGES JERMA HAS BEEN TORN ASUNDER

[ID: a printed image of the “sparkle on its Wednesday!” Jerma image with visible scan lines and a noticeable white crack down the middle. End ID]

#there's more scans in the rbs #and styx was like 'you should put him back in he's not done yet' #and then he got stuck and i had to tear the sad beast in half as not to destroy my printer #thank you to @sugargliders-s for the image id!