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Got a simple brother laser printer. Duplex, BW only, works flawlessly with Linux and as a network printer.

4-5 times a year I'll need to print 10 pages. Add an additional one every two weeks.

The printer definitely paid for itself in convenience.

laser is the secret

Who the hell can afford printer cartridge

Picked one for free two years ago, works perfect, I buy pirated cartridges for like, 30$ per entire set, evep prints high quality photos...

Printers are scams.....the end

Just picked one up for $10 at habitat for humanity restore. Works perfectly, scanner too! Still got em.

I’ve heard Xennial and even heard Xellennial, had not heard Xenninial yet. Impressed.

I have had a series of perpetually 10+ year old printers that have been handed down to me by Boomers. I print something maybe once a year, so I usually have to go through a half hour of printer cleaning to get the dried out ink to flow again. I really should just get rid of it and go to a photocopy place the next time I need a physical copy of something.

Edit: I just realized it would literally be easier and faster to burn something onto paper with my laser engraver. I think I just talked myself into quitting printers.

I have a printer, and know where the power cord is! I even have it paired to my wifi and use it to scan stuff. Don't ask me to print anything, I can't afford the ink.

i had to print 2 whole pages a few years ago, and gone to a office supply store. told them i would like to pay for it by card...cashier told me if i use the card, the banking transaction cost more than printing two a4 papers, so long story short it was free.

these stores usually have a printer so expensive i wouldnt be able to pay for it with all my organs, but its cheaper to print there then having a printer at home.

as for work, i dont like the looks people give me when i print there. i like to keep my private life out of the office, i recommend the same. if you want to print out a long ass book however, and nobody cares at work, go ahead.

Don't ask Richard Stallman to view a non-printed webpage.

Don't send anybody anything to print at home. If you need something physical in today's year, you go through that effort and mail it

Xennial here, get a Brother laser printer if you can. The "starter toner" lasted me for like 4 years so far and is only now getting low. I can't imagine going back to an inkjet that would always dry up since I used infrequently, but I still needed it.

The entire printer industry is being funded by our grandparents, I am not fucking joking. My grandpa has bought MULTIPLE printers last year alone, please some one send help.

I just write the document by hand the one time a year I need a printer. Doesn't work for everything but is good enough for lots of the stuff that still requires your signature in ink

wtf is a xenninial?

I have a canon pixma printer and the goddamn IT people can’t make it work with my new laptop. Fucking bullshit.

My local library has been getting refurbished for a couple of months.

It's really thrown off my ability to do paperwork, as they were the only people around with a working printer.

I actually had to fix the printer at work. Horrible stuff.

What? I have a working printer and a box full of power cables.

This is me. Now that I work from home, if I need to print something (maybe 3 times per year), I use a mailing service that will print a pdf and send it to my place. It cost 2€ per document, takes 2-3 days to arrive, but it is still cheaper and less painful than buying a printer.

Brother laser gang here -- highly recommend. I print a handful of things every year and it hasn't let me down. Still rocking the original toner and I bought it in 2021.

Last year I bought an old second-hand Brother laser printer for $20, with 60% ink and 75% on the drum. Works like a charm.

Xennial here. I bought a nice lightly used office printer/copier for cheap off ebay a few years back for my daughter’s Girl Scout troop. It saw a lot of use while I was an assistant leader, but nowadays I only use it to print Pathfinder character sheets and maps. I definitely don’t use it enough to justify it, but as long as I have it I may as well keep it.

The best investment of my life was buying an Epson LQ500 back in... I don't know... '95 perhaps? All this years, and even after months or even years without use it will happily awake from its slumber to once again scream and punch dots on to its never ending but ancient supply of fanfold paper

I think, for me, owning a printer is like owning a van. You're the only person your friends know who has one, so every time someone needs it you're the one they ask.