All printers hate us
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/11
I’m not alone in feeling hated by printers and multifunctionals.
I had already seen this 2019 comic [Archive.is] System32Comics on Twitter: “Printers nowadays… “ quite a while ago:
- User: Hey printer, can you please print this document?
- Printer: Low on Cyan
- User: Don’t worry, it’s just a black and white text
- Printer: No fuck you, low on Cyan
Printers and the drivers shipped by manufacturers hate me so much, that I now have the habit of using older printers which are better supported out-of-the-box by modern operating systems, hence this tweet:
[Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “I try to avoid using the software provided by the printer manufacturer. Usually stock PCL or PostScript drivers work fine.… “
Thanks to [Archive.is] Matt Schultz 😷 on Twitter: “Seems about right… … “, I found out that early 2021 Stevie Martin came along with this hilarious video [Archive.is] “when you’re trying to print something”:
And of course the System32Comics version was commented immediately: [Archive.is] Mr. Dubi and Dr. Kan on Twitter: “… “ (:
But also a few other nice comments were made that I had not known of before:
- [Archive.is] Sérgio Raz on Twitter: “I hate printers with a burning passion.… “ because of
- [Archive.is] ElZephyRose on Twitter: “… Me: *cry internally*…”
Me: I want to scan something
Printer: Can’t, i’m out of Magenta ink
Me: But i only need a scan… and i’m pretty sure i’ve never used any shade of red on my printed documents :/
Printer: I’m out of Magenta… Also my fixed IP address is 169.25.41.1/24 right?
Me: *cry internally*
- [Archive.is] ElZephyRose on Twitter: “… Me: *cry internally*…”
- [Archive.is] Sérgio Raz on Twitter: “Hey printer/scanner scan this pager for me. Nah, no ink. But it’s just scanning a do… I SAID LOW ON INK!! I just to install the drivers. That’s 5gb. But.. I just.. 5 fucking gigabytes! Fuck you @HP… “
“Hey printer/scanner scan this pager for me.
Nah, no ink.
But it’s just scanning a do…
I SAID LOW ON INK!!
I just to install the drivers.”
I got at that thread because of [Archive.is] Troy Hunt on Twitter: “No? Yes? The UX in this @Epson printer is undoubtedly one of the worst I’ve ever seen. Just insane. (Near new ET-16600 FWIW.)… :
Title: Confirmation
Text: The wired LAN connection is disabled when using a Wi-Fi connection.
Buttons: Close, No, Yes
–jeroen
https://twitter.com/schumatt/status/1368782661100134400
https://twitter.com/dubikan/status/1367885008560676872
https://twitter.com/RazoesSergio/status/1370330001871155200
https://twitter.com/JohnMoynes/status/1384863276232757250?s=19
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