[Rules p.1] Things that annoy you guys. 100 percent. Not gonna lie

Fade wrote:Exactly

There are also a ton of people who just have lists of things they don't like and no information on themselves. That and horse girls are always an insta left swipe.

Not that Im a great catch but I least I try

The strawberry float, you want those thoroughbreds.

Totally agree with the 'entertain me' bios though, strawberry floating awful.

Also what age are you, aiming a little on the low side nah?

Printers. Why don't they just work?

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:Printers. Why don't they just work?

Because they're universally shite.

Ironhide wrote:

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:Printers. Why don't they just work?

Because they're universally shite.

Seems that way!

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:Printers. Why don't they just work?

I bought a little black and white laser printer a year or so ago and it's amazing. Prints things off in seconds, seems to never run out of toner (its still over 90% capacity left) and never strawberry floats up, unlike to banana split inkjet printer we used to have.

This one, it's great.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7833146 ... R=plp:3:60

Arsehole employers.

My sister-in-law fell off her bike last week and my brother had to leave work as she was in hospital. She was ok, just a very mild concussion, and he was back to work the next day.

My brother has now been told he has to attend a disciplinary hearing next Monday. He queried this with his boss who just fobbed him off with "well, anybody could just make up an excuse like that".

Unlike me, my brother is a bloody hard worker who never even takes sick days.

Wankers.

I've sent him this and told him to give them some gooseberry fool back if they want to be twats about it.

https://www.gov.uk/time-off-for-dependants

Wow. A single offense and it gets treated like that. Not even any compassion that maybe the situation is a genuine one. Hopefully whoever's manning the hearing is nicer and more caring.

Victor Mildew wrote:

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:Printers. Why don't they just work?

I bought a little black and white laser printer a year or so ago and it's amazing. Prints things off in seconds, seems to never run out of toner (its still over 90% capacity left) and never strawberry floats up, unlike to banana split inkjet printer we used to have.

This one, it's great.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7833146 ... R=plp:3:60

I've had a Samsung mono laser printer for nearly six years and it still has about 70% toner left in the original cartridge. Paid around £50 for it.

Its still a little bit gooseberry fool though as the wireless printing mode is impossible to get working (badly translated and contradictary instructions don't exactly help).

Victor Mildew wrote:

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:Printers. Why don't they just work?

I bought a little black and white laser printer a year or so ago and it's amazing. Prints things off in seconds, seems to never run out of toner (its still over 90% capacity left) and never strawberry floats up, unlike to banana split inkjet printer we used to have.

This one, it's great.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7833146 ... R=plp:3:60

Yep, this is how home printing should be. If I ever need colour I use a printing service at a library or similar, and I get photographs printed professionally at Costco or Max Spielmann etc.

Printers are a real minefield, with companies operating some truly horrible business practices such as shutting down if you use a third party ink cartridge and refusing to print until all empty ink cartridges are replaced even if you're trying to print something that doesn't require that colour.

Quite a scummy industry.

Rule #1: Don't buy inkjet printers.

Winckle wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:Printers. Why don't they just work?

I bought a little black and white laser printer a year or so ago and it's amazing. Prints things off in seconds, seems to never run out of toner (its still over 90% capacity left) and never strawberry floats up, unlike to banana split inkjet printer we used to have.

This one, it's great.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7833146 ... R=plp:3:60

Yep, this is how home printing should be. If I ever need colour I use a printing service at a library or similar, and I get photographs printed professionally at Costco or Max Spielmann etc.

I have a HP printer (not that exact one, mine also does colour) and it seems to depend on its mood every time whether it communicates with my laptop/phone or not.

Tomous wrote:Printers are a real minefield, with companies operating some truly horrible business practices such as shutting down if you use a third party ink cartridge and refusing to print until all empty ink cartridges are replaced even if you're trying to print something that doesn't require that colour.

Quite a scummy industry.

It does require colour though. Unless printing 100% cyan or yellow or magenta which is basically impossible to get the printer to do because it processes an RGB image into Cmyk separations in the printer driver.

A lot of the greys produced by inkjets are made up of dots of colour as well. Some will let you force the black ink only for a while (when a colour cart is out) but greys, believe it or not, may not look right. In an inkjet printer, this needs to remain wet with the tubes and ink nozzles permanently charged with ink. If not, they dry out or block with air. Print heads actually run hot, and even air can burn the print head, which is why they block. So the requirement for all cartridges to be loaded and the whole system charged with ink prevents destroying the most expensive part, which is the print head. That means the whole product is ruined and not cost effective to repair normally.

Inkjets are a fascinating technology, but yeah, modern day affordable mono lasers are the way to go now.

To maintain an inkjet printer, you MUST print regularly (at least once a week) or the print head will fail, with all 4 colours. This is really easy as you can just print a couple of nozzle check patterns. If you don't need to print regularly, don't buy a printer, or get or borrow a laser printer. There are so many places that will do this for about 10p. Most people don't need a printer at all.

Vermilion wrote:

DarkRula wrote:Shall I talk about my coin collection?

You rang?

I could bore you for hours about mine, it would be like Rimmer's risk story.

Sorry, it's taken me a while to respond to this as I was in a state of non-grippedness

Moggy wrote:Arsehole employers.

My sister-in-law fell off her bike last week and my brother had to leave work as she was in hospital. She was ok, just a very mild concussion, and he was back to work the next day.

My brother has now been told he has to attend a disciplinary hearing next Monday. He queried this with his boss who just fobbed him off with "well, anybody could just make up an excuse like that".

Unlike me, my brother is a bloody hard worker who never even takes sick days.

Wankers.

I've sent him this and told him to give them some gooseberry fool back if they want to be twats about it.

https://www.gov.uk/time-off-for-dependants

That is really shitty of them. If he can, get someone to go into the hearing with him, better yet some sort of legal representation / someone with legal experiance (family friend etc)

Usually that scares the gooseberry fool out of employers.


I'd also be then tempted to strawberry float em over and get signed off work with stress or something.


The 'management class' are not your friend.

Green Gecko wrote:

Tomous wrote:Printers are a real minefield, with companies operating some truly horrible business practices such as shutting down if you use a third party ink cartridge and refusing to print until all empty ink cartridges are replaced even if you're trying to print something that doesn't require that colour.

Quite a scummy industry.

To maintain an inkjet printer, you MUST print regularly (at least once a week) or the print head will fail, with all 4 colours. This is really easy as you can just print a couple of nozzle check patterns. If you don't need to print regularly, don't buy a printer, or get or borrow a laser printer. There are so many places that will do this for about 10p. Most people don't need a printer at all.

I print regular enough that having my own printer seemed worthwhile. Having said that, I don't print as frequently as once a week. Never had a problem with the ink heads, so I disagree with your advice on that front. It's more often communicating to the printer with my device that's problematic.

I only print from my inkjet printer when Gecko posts about them, reminding me to make sure the nozzles don't clog up.

So far it's still alright but I dread to think how much ink has been wasted.

Well, they can survive a few weeks, or even months, "parked" for sure, but if you run a print head check, at least a few of the nozzles (out of hundreds) are likely to be blocked. Over time this causes streaking, eventually the print quality is so bad its effectively useless.

But if an inkjet isn't used for 6-12 months, I'd all but write it off without discharging loads of ink manually unblockingit which may or may not help at all by that stage (which is going to cost about as much as a new printer including starter cartridges).

In year one or so an inkjet can do fairly well with occasional use. But over time, dust and dried ink and nozzle burns accumulate microscopically on the print head and regularly use is more important. I see problems developing around year 2 or 3 on inexpensive printers. Year 3 the printer is pretty much strawberry floated without regular maintenance. This can be more prevalent with cheap inks (which vary in quality massively).

Most people have these things gathering dust for months and then they go to print, oh damn this printer it's taking so long, oh why are the prints so bad? Oh I'm out of ink because the printer has to clean itself. That's the printers fault. Well, maybe it is an inherent flaw and mis sell the idea that these particular printers are a good idea for home use, but it's totally avoidable.

If a printer isn't used for a month or so, it will automatically detect that and do a series of full print head cleans, this is why it takes ages to start a printer that's gone unused at the time - the printer is self servicing. That can use up a significant amount of ink, to then only print one thing, is silly. Regular print offs of literally some colour squares will use way less ink. It's far more economical to maintain than letting the printer essentially dry out over and over.

It also depends on the operating environment, temperature and humidity has a massive impact.

I'm a professional artist with 3 inkjet printers including a DTG that cost thousands, so I want them with 100% clear print heads. A replacement printedhead for me costs... £1850. I get a 3 year extended warranty most of the time because I know that whatever you do eventually that printhead will need replacing.

So even on a £200-300 printer, after 2 weeks on average, I see a few blocked nozzles, sometimes black (which is formulated to dry as fast as possible and is more vicious than colours as it needs to be opaque) is almost completely blocked. Running that check as frequently as possible is a very good idea as at least in theory you won't need a new printer in the long run. A well maintained printhead can last a decade.

Low cost printers don't always do a spectacular job as well as consuming massive amounts of ink in self service routines, of which there are many and why ink literally disappears.

I actually check the printer's health every 2 to 4 weeks in practice, but weekly for 5 minutes is worth maintaining what can be a considerable investment and lowers environment impact. My business is paperless so I only print what I need as well as artwork, proofs, layouts for example as well as invoices etc etc. When I do do that, I need it to bloody work. The paper I use is also pricey.

I had 2 Lexmark printers, they were rotten. Currently have a Canon with scanner (takes 5 cartridges). It's used about 4 or 5 times a week, but it does go through a lot of ink (which is astronomically expensive), wifi is temperamental (now just refuses to work if the PS5 is also on, bizarrely) and the occasional cleaning routine it goes through can be frustrating as you're sat there waiting for one black and white document to print for 5 minutes.

As far as I can tell, only Canon themselves accept the empty cartridges back for recycling.