Could you imagine.
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hot take.
printers are good.
ink jet makes for cheap printers and expensive ink. they are even subsidised so companies profit from ink. but they are shite.
a laser printer starts at 150$ and colour one at twice as much. never had a problem with those and as a bonus they print much much faster and the paper is nice and warm, and toner costs a fraction of the cost per page compared to ink.
honestly, ink jet printers need to die. imagine if we still used floppy disks for some reason and then people complained how unreliable and inconvenient external data storage is while we have external SSDs available but they cost a bit more than floppies but at orders of magnitude more value.
The only reason I'd print anything is for artwork. Laser is incredibly bad at making nice colours.
Also... Isn't laser essentially beaming small plastic particles into the paper? Another win for microplastics.
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I don't think as many people need printers at home anymore, and many of us can get by printing at the library or copy shop or wherever. Costco? I dunno. I've got 3 different LaserJets I'm part of the problem, but many of us have the option of letting someone else bear the costs of maintaining the printer, and as a plus at the print shop we have options for better quality prints. If so, especially in this lentil economy, make lentils in printing.
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