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Unless of course, it’s a HP printer that stubbornly sits “offline” even when it’s 3ft from the router, has full bars of WiFi goodness & can easily see both the router & my laptop from it lofty perch in the office. Never had much luck with WiFi printers. Never had much luck with printers full stop.
I took great pleasure in launching the last one 20ft into the air & watching it disembowel itself on the patio.
Cars. Running a new car is my acceptance of how far we have come. Much as I love older cars, I have to say that once you get past the (for some) psychological barrier of accepting that running a new car is going to always cost £xxx a month, the benefits of knowing that any eventuality is covered by a warranty, it’s just one less thing to worry about.
My last two printers have 'just worked' 95% of the time - the difference between them and all my previous printers is that they're lasers. They don't mind not being used from one week to the next - it was always the nozzle blocked etc that caused me issues.
yup, ISTR starting a thread about printer issues some while back. Different printer now, same issues.
anywayroadup, Modern Life is Rubbish was released in May 1993 so from our position of 26 years later we need a new idiomatic expression as well as a new printer
From The Poke's "25 funny things today" tweets..
everyone: make better products
phone companies: ok
computer companies: ok
printer companies: here's an idea how about you go **** yourself
DrP
I've recently thrown away two printers at work, one of which had never been used because we couldn't get either of them working on anything running Windows 10. I took an old Brother printer of the shelf which has sat totally unused for the 6 years we've been in this building and possibly for a couple of years before that and it worked first time without any issues.
I have an Epson of some sort. It's connected to the wireless network at home. I can print onto it from my phone - from anywhere in the world I have a network connection.
Frankly amazing when you think about it.
But of course, who actually prints anything these days?