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TheIronMaiden · 02-12-2026, 04:43 PM

God help the soul of any person who has the use a printer for a living. Jesus Christ all mighty I have killed a tree today wrestling with this printer from the 7th ring of hell. MOther ####er!

TheIronMaiden · 02-12-2026, 05:00 PM

Fuzz · 02-12-2026, 05:04 PM

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God help the soul of any person who has the use a printer for a living. Jesus Christ all mighty I have killed a tree today wrestling with this printer from the 7th ring of hell. MOther ####er!

I share your pain, but when I have to do it, it's with a 2 roll 36" scanner/printer with 6 ink cartridges, 6 print heads and a 10 minute reboot cycle that you have to do every time it jams or fails to load. And a finicky print driver that trips over stuff all the time, resulting in large amounts of wallpaper scribbles. And yes, it's HP.

Somehow still not as bad as the older one that whenever it chocked, would dump saturated pages of ink, just to make sure it wasted all the paper AND all the ink. Pity to the fool who sent a print job to that one and didn't supervise.

TorqueDog · 02-12-2026, 05:21 PM

I'm rocking a Ricoh SP-C261SFNw color laser MFP I bought near the end of 2018 and it's been flawless; I do everything from network scanning to duplexing, hell, it works with AirPrint even.

Before that, I had an OKIData MC160n and the only reason that went bye-bye was I wanted something newer, higher quality, and faster with wireless support. Plus my other half at the time had a Macbook Air for which the OE drivers for the MC160n lacked support, and the universal driver built into Mac OS X didn't work for network scanning. Was still without issue on Windows until the day I replaced it.

So the key takeaway from this is never buy HP printers unless you really want to fantasize about that scene in Office Space being real life.

Fuzz · 02-12-2026, 05:25 PM

Yup, I live by the Never HP Credo(including computers, holy hell was that awful-14 CDs for reinstall, and it had a DVD drive!) but for large format there are not a lot of options. Probably would have looked harder at Epson, but our seller had such a great deal the last time on a barely used HP it didn't make sense not to. Well, at the time...

DoubleF · 02-12-2026, 05:47 PM

I realized I don't have many good memories about HP printers and Canon ones either. Those printers would be fine then randomly go catastrophic without warning. I had two HP 8150DN that were relatively problem free, but something about them also always pissed me off about them. I have one left that still works, but I use it so rarely now that I'll probably relocate it to an Ecycle drop off when I have the time to do so.

Most other brands I've dealt with like Brother, Epson, Samsung, Minolta, Toshiba etc. were all relatively fine. Not completely flawless, but nothing beyond occasional gremlins that were relatively easy to figure out and resolve quickly without calling a tech to come in.

woob · 02-12-2026, 06:26 PM

Man I haven't heard the name OKIData since working with dot matrix printers.

Fuzz · 02-12-2026, 06:43 PM

When the ink got low, your prints got dim. But they always printed. I remember when we got a colour ribbon printer, and that thing was the tits. For a teenager. With the early internet...

fotze2 · 02-12-2026, 07:02 PM

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Man I haven't heard the name OKIData since working with dot matrix printers.

The Okimate 20 was the schit

bizaro86 · 02-12-2026, 08:30 PM

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False! Teachers take a beating every few months here. And don't get me started on politicians. And Uber drivers. And lawyers. And accountants...and...

are you new here?

Engineers. Hockey coaches/analysts. Contractors. Insurance adjusters.

Really CP is rough on everyone.

Sliver · 02-13-2026, 01:34 PM

I was ripping on train engineers a couple months ago and turns out we have one of those. Felt bad fwiw.

undercoverbrother · 02-13-2026, 03:18 PM

Tall kunts that ride mobility scooters while smoking fake fags

topfiverecords · 02-13-2026, 03:55 PM

pc load letter

bizaro86 · 02-13-2026, 08:21 PM

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I was ripping on train engineers a couple months ago and turns out we have one of those. Felt bad fwiw.

Meh. I think we have basically someone that does everything on here and everyone gets ribbed.

fotze2 · 02-13-2026, 08:49 PM

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Engineers. Hockey coaches/analysts. Contractors. Insurance adjusters.

Really CP is rough on everyone.

As an engineer, we have earned it. Oh you're one of 148,000 you are special. Peak out a full cword at 5 years after graduating then get humbled.

bizaro86 · 02-13-2026, 11:29 PM

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As an engineer, we have earned it. Oh you're one of 148,000 you are special. Peak out a full cword at 5 years after graduating then get humbled.

Yeah, I'm also an engineer. Most deflating moment was when my kid asked me what my job was when he was like 3 or 4 and was then super disappointed when I told him I didn't drive a train and didn't know Thomas.

fotze2 · 02-14-2026, 01:55 AM

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Yeah, I'm also an engineer. Most deflating moment was when my kid asked me what my job was when he was like 3 or 4 and was then super disappointed when I told him I didn't drive a train and didn't know Thomas.

I think the best 'engineers' are the techs I've worked with. It is like an immediately inherent humility they seem to have. I don't even wear that ghey ring anymore. Sooo cynical about it.

PaperBagger'14 · 02-14-2026, 10:29 PM

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I think the best 'engineers' are the techs I've worked with. It is like an immediately inherent humility they seem to have. I don't even wear that ghey ring anymore. Sooo cynical about it.

Funny, I worked with a tech who crapped his pants in his work vehicle so bad that it had to be cleaned professionally by guys using bio hazard protocol. The other tech in the vehicle got out and grabbed a cab.

GGG · 02-15-2026, 11:17 AM

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I think the best 'engineers' are the techs I've worked with. It is like an immediately inherent humility they seem to have. I don't even wear that ghey ring anymore. Sooo cynical about it.

I think it’s becasue they often are writing exams to get their stamps post university. They choose to relearn everything. I think it’s that desire for technical knowledge and technical responsibility that attracts a certain personality over the project guys.

They also often have field experience which makes any technical person much better

fotze2 · 02-15-2026, 03:17 PM

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I think it’s becasue they often are writing exams to get their stamps post university. They choose to relearn everything. I think it’s that desire for technical knowledge and technical responsibility that attracts a certain personality over the project guys.

They also often have field experience which makes any technical person much better

Or we go thru Uni taking stuff by PhDs that have never worked real jobs.