Printers are banned in my house. I need to print maybe twice a year. I pay for someone else to manage a printer that will work when I need it instead of discovering that my ink is dry or the drivers don’t work despite nothing having changed since the last time I used it.
I just got one from e-waste and its worked for 4 years, somehow.
Don’t try replacing a USB port as your first ever soldering attempt. Or at least don’t be an idiot like me, you need flux, not fucking 520°C.
I mean, it holds. It’s tilted, burnt, but works…
Drivers, Linux works fine, but not Windows. HP support page for that specific printer says the installation is automatic. Windows says it can’t find drivers. As usual, archive.org is my friend (Linux doesn’t support high-DPI feature).
But, uuuh, the high DPI takes 20 minutes per A4 page. Yeah, 20 minutes. And it is the only acceptable option for pictures or small details.
Ink, I managed to get half a liter from AliExpress on sale for 71 cents. At least black one, I don’t use color too often. And even then, I only managed to use half of the 2 bottles when I decided to print 180 pages of text in dark mode (white on black).
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Printers are banned in my house. I need to print maybe twice a year. I pay for someone else to manage a printer that will work when I need it instead of discovering that my ink is dry or the drivers don’t work despite nothing having changed since the last time I used it.
yeah same here, i’d rather pay that 0.10€ /sheet to an external agency.
This is the way.
I just got one from e-waste and its worked for 4 years, somehow.
Don’t try replacing a USB port as your first ever soldering attempt. Or at least don’t be an idiot like me, you need flux, not fucking 520°C.
I mean, it holds. It’s tilted, burnt, but works…
Drivers, Linux works fine, but not Windows. HP support page for that specific printer says the installation is automatic. Windows says it can’t find drivers. As usual, archive.org is my friend (Linux doesn’t support high-DPI feature).
But, uuuh, the high DPI takes 20 minutes per A4 page. Yeah, 20 minutes. And it is the only acceptable option for pictures or small details.
Ink, I managed to get half a liter from AliExpress on sale for 71 cents. At least black one, I don’t use color too often. And even then, I only managed to use half of the 2 bottles when I decided to print 180 pages of text in dark mode (white on black).