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zaph ,
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I've singlehandedly caused hp to lose thousands of dollars. People trust my advice and I've lost all trust in hp so I tell people not to waste their money on it.

joyjoy ,

Don't buy a smart printer. Buy a dumb printer, then plug it into a raspberry pi.

InFerNo ,

What's a smart printer?

joyjoy ,

A printer that supports network print, typically through an Internet service.

wreckedcarzz ,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

I'd say network printers are fine, but ones that require a 'cloud' connection can gag on my dong. I have a brother business aio printer hooked up via network and it's been everything I wanted from it, after our Epson shit the bed a couple years ago.

Uranium3006 ,
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we need an easily flashed prerolled Printer OS that makes this easy to make work

Zagorath ,
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I haven't bought a printer recently. Wtf is a smart printer?

letsgo ,

It's a printer that, when you tell it to print, tries its best to find a reason to refuse to do so.

Sylvartas ,

Most newer models that automatically make themselves available to all the devices connected to the network they are connected to, and manage the printer queue internally. Usually comes with a ton of shitty "features" e.g preventing you from printing black & white when you're out of yellow ink.
2-in-one scanner+printer machines are especially heinous with this, most of the ones I've used block you from scanning a document if you're out of any ink (yes, even when you're only trying to scan and not use the "copy" mode)

Somehow they found a way to make me miss having to boot the "printer PC" and wrangling windows' god awful printer queue system.

cm0002 ,

When I got hired to take charge of the IT department, the first thing I did was phase out ALL HP products and then implemented an "Unacceptable and Barred Brands for purchasing" policy with HP right at top.

Gork ,

Thank you for your service

TheMightyCanuck ,
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Unfathomably Based

Clusterfck ,

Anyone have recommendations for MICR compatible printers that AREN’T HP? It’s the last HP product we have in my office.

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