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I fried this meme because reddit banned it (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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All I had was a Google search results cached image to work with

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[–] 61 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I will never forgive capitalism for what they let printers turn into.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    While I hate many things about printers, I'll give them credit for being better than they were. Installing printer drivers a few years back was a fucking nightmare. Now most of the time I can just find the printer on the network and send it. No special software, no "Have Disc" menu headache. Shit just works.

    There's exceptions for stuff like plotters, but when a print job uses $40 of ink and paper I kinda want it to be a PITA so people don't decide to just print out every map revision for every meeting when a pdf on the big screen does the job just fine.

    And scanning still sucks. A lot. Like - a crazy amount. Why is scanning to a USB drive still the most convenient way to get a file larger than the email limit to my computer?

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I'm old enough to remember when printers didn't need drivers.

    echo Hello World > lpt1

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I have a functioning ancient Canon printer in my office that can do that. 🌚

    Would still be using it if not for safety concerns regarding old laser printers.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Its been a while, but hospitals used to use dot matrix printers, at least up through 2013, likely longer.

    Why dot-matrix? Carbon copy papers, white, yellow, pink, all get printed simultaneously.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    And scanning still sucks. A lot. Like - a crazy amount. Why is scanning to a USB drive still the most convenient way to get a file larger than the email limit to my computer?

    Honest question: what about scanning to WebDAV/Nextcloud/SMB-Share/Paperless-NGX?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    what about scanning to WebDAV/Nextcloud/SMB-Share/Paperless-NGX?

    Manufacturers seem to have by and large decided that those features are reserved for professional office units priced at >$400, and for everything that can't scan directly to network drive without a computer you can only operate the machine directly (ie pushing the buttons on the machine) if you have Windows or Mac. Linux users must use a desktop app, browser interface, or smartphone app.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's ten times easier to take a picture and crop it tbh

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    That is going to be absolutely far worse quality than a scan.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Sure if it's a working high quality scanner, but with the phone cameras nowadays it's pretty close to perfect. I submit government docs like that all the time, never had any problem, if i give it Claude it digitizes perfectly in one shot.

    I get it, it'd be nice if there was a simple scanning standard that worked, but it's not worth all the fuss scanners require today.

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