AccidentalLemming10 liquids that cost less than printer ink
BombOmOmStop buying printer ink. Buy a laser printer and buy toner instead. It’s significantly cheaper.
For B&W text, sure. But the quality of laser required to print a decent colour photo is not cheap.
This is why I print the color pages at work
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I would do that to, but I work from home.
When you have to add the cost of a transatlantic flight it costs nearly as much as the inkjet we have at home.
Maybe try and blah it on expenses 😉
Yeah, I didn’t even had a printer until I started working from home. It’s so good to use those free company stuff :)
How often does the average person really need that, though?
Theres always ‘but sometimes’ arguments to everything, but the advice was general.
Shipping labels, concert tickets, sometimes train tickets and airline tickets (some companies don’t accept them just on the phone), contracts, NDAs, tax returns, etc.
Depends on where you live and how much you interact with other companies and government agencies.
A simple B&W laser printer would work great for all those things
Yes. The word “color” is mentioned exactly 0 times in the ancestor nodes above my comment.
I’ve printed most items on that list in black and white. Why would you need color for any of those things?
I wasn’t replying to anything that mentioned color.
Yes, you were. The comment you responded to was asking whether coloured printing is all that necessary in response to someone saying that while b&w laser printers may be cheap, colour ones aren’t.
Every single thing you’ve listed would be absolutely fine in B&W
Well OK yeah, for those you just need B&W. Color becomes useful when trying to impress. I’ve sent rent applications in color specifically because I know that the real estate agents are subjective. Some of the talks that I’ve held were helped out by coloring my notes while I was presenting. And some home crafts and activities (escape rooms with friends) were helped out several times by the color printer. Given that there isn’t a huge price gap in maintenance and initial costs, for me it was worth it.
The comment I replied to did being up the topic of colour though, just read the thread.
My response to that is that the average person doesn’t need colour printing, and honestly doesn’t even need to print at all with rare exception.
Based on your replies you are not the average person in terms of printer usage. So that’s why you had the responses that you’ve had. You’re just seeming to look for an excuse to argue?
“don’t buy ink”
“Who needs that anyway”
No explicit use of the word “color” or “colour”, or the opposite of b&w. Why can’t you just accept that when you’re not being explicit, you shouldn’t expect people to be telepathic and there will be misunderstandings? You could have just gone by and pass this misunderstanding, but instead you chose to gaslight here.
Lol, the comment thread you replied to is literally talking about color printers. The person you replied to said “How often does the average person really need that” with the ‘that’ being in reference to printing in color. Then you listed a bunch of stuff that doesn’t need color
No it does not. Some other comments parallel to mine do. But not the one I was replying to and neither was the article above. So unless my 2 different apps and the web version I saw show a wrong picture, I suggest you dial down your senseless confrontational attitude and try to act more like a decent human being.
The laser doesn’t print anything. I haven’t taken apart a home printer but I assume it works the same as the smaller machines I fix. The laser charges the drum. That puts the image on the drum by attracting toner. Then the paper rolls over the drum. I skipped some steps but that’s the general idea.
The point is the laser just has to be good to charge the drum.
It’s quite common to leave out the noun when everyone knows what everyone’s talking about. In this case when someone says “An inkjet is worse than a laser”, we know they’re not talking about the actual jets or lasers
Okie dokie. I care about as much as the people down voting me for knowing how printers work.
Hmmm not sure if non-native or just wildly autistic