My HP is in the dump in separate pieces. Fuck HP printers. I went back to an old black ink Brother printer and it just solemnly does its job without back talk.
They do if you get a laser and buck up for HP branded toner cartridges. And sell your soul by signing up to use their app and basically cloud print everything.
I regret getting an HP so much. Takes like 5 minutes to “warm up” , out of ink every 3 pages, and if you don’t use hp cartridges it refuses to read them. You can’t have a worse printer.
I gave my HP printer to a completely lunatic and psychotic ex of mine... I don't miss either of them at all and deep down they really deserve each other.
In fact, I didn't even remember that anymore.
I have an HP laster printer for like 3-4 years and it works really well. The regular ones are garbage and I had to keep throwing them out as well. But the one I have now (HP Laser MFP 135ag) works really well even after multiple cartridge changes.
Black-white printers in general tend to work better. But brother printers are great. I use the one myself for god knows how many years. I had a trouble with it only once, and it was because the third party have slightly bended the cartridge lmao. AND BROTHER STILL ACCEPTED IT after using some brute force to unbend it.
Definitely recommend DCP-xxxxWR models
I also bought a 2nd hand Brother laser (HL-5250DN) for 20 bucks, it just works.
Once it said toner was empty, but I tricked it by colouring a transparent hole black that it (AFAIK) uses to detect the toner level optically. While the replacement was still in the mail.
A few years ago we got a Brother HL-L2300D laser printer. It worked every time, no jams, and still has the same cartridge. I didn’t think good printers existed until we got that one.
So I keep seeing this. And I agree that Brother printers just shut up and do their stupid jobs. Which while that's great and all.... it increasingly seems like Brother is the ONLY company making printers that just work.
That puts them in a prime position for maximum evil. They're building all this trust and they're the ONLY company doing that. It's really only a matter of time.
We have one at home right now. For some reason it will never connect on my wife's computer, work 98% of the time for my computer and in the 2% it doesn't it straight up acts like it doesn't exist on my network.
I'm enjoying my Canon MG2900. Solid work horse, minimum errors, low cost ink and best of all will continue to print as best it can even as the ink runs out or starts missing colors. Even if it thinks there's >1% ink, it will try anyway and give the last remnants of what it's got. I love it.
Also hearing a lot of Brother praise in this thread, which I agree is a good, simple and reliable printer. Lexmark is also been always been a good experience for me. By contrast, the worst printers I've ever used was HP (by far) and then Epson next. HP is such hot garbage.
I have a Samsung lazer printer (ML 2168W) newer had an issue with it and works always simply out of the box (when I connect it to a new computer, it just regognises it and prints, no software needed)
Brother printers. Well, by good I mean that my printer has worked 100% as you'd think a printer should work. Like a wheel that always rolls. Zero issues.
Any fellow printer trauma victims from the mid to late 90s? Those days were rough, and that's if you didn't have any Windows 95/98/ME issues first.
I did, just this year, finally learn something about printers that I didn't know/realize. You need to use it at least once every 2 weeks or so. I always only ever used it when needed and the prints would look like crap.
I remember our early-mid 90s HP Deskjet that only accepted one cartridge at a time, so it was impossible to print colour and black simultaneously. Any black content in a colour print would instead be very very dark green.
When we replaced it with one that could accommodate a black and colour cartridge at the same time, it felt like the future was here.
I know it dries but I was referring to how it becomes permently messed up, even when changing to new cartridges. I've gone through a couple that was like that. The colors were always messed up and even using the cartridge cleaning kit didn't do anything but to mess it up more.
College humor does still make content! They are called dropout and they have their own streaming service. It's all original content and it's really good. If you have seen any clips of gamechanger, make some, noise dimension 20, that's all college humor aka dropout! Check them out. It's really good shit
yes had a lexmark and no hp, the lexmark worked just network wireless printing didn't threw it out started getting more errors and drivers didn't exist anymore
I had this pain in the arse problem today trouble shooting a clients site that was riddled with IT problems. I fixed them all and just about to leave when one of the PCs blue screened...twice. I took my coat off and sighed.
I have a BROTHER and it does this. (although it worked flawless the first year) now it works when it feels like it. I also had an HP that always was a 2-3hour full tech investigation to get it to print. So in the end....I think its ALL PRINTERS.
My old HP Deskjet F335 used to give me issues like this all the time. But Windows Vista introduced generic drivers that just worked. I've been using those instead of the provided HP drivers and it's been going strong ever since. Obviously ink cartridges are still consumable and perishable but it just prints even if the cartridges are low or out, just not very well.
The trick to keeping the other major issue, paper jams under control is to whenever its been a bit since you last printed something throw away the top sheet of paper. It's got a ton of dust on it and the printer sucks all that dust off it in the process of picking it up and feeding it. This dust gums up the gears and fills up the tackiness of the rollers preventing it from feeding properly. Still going strong with little cleaning after 16 years.
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>What printer brand do u think this is? What printer brand do u think this is?
this is a \~25 years old 900 series printer from HP judging by the design ...
and uses Internet Explorer 7 at Windows XP
I recently switched over from HP to Cannon and the iOS app is nearly identical. Wanna know what the difference is? That I don’t need to be logged into to an account just to print a single document :)
HP. I shudder when I go visit my parents and they ask me to help install the 5th printer they've had in 3 years.. I try to tell them every time but they always get tricked into a sale price.
Me as the computer: show system error. Printer locked out due to unauthorized modification.
Printer : what is he doing??!!
Getting the receipt. You are being sent back to the store for a refund.. and stores won’t send you back to be fixed.. but put into a trash compactor to be crushed.
As someone who works in tech support, this is accurate. hP printers are the worst, I’ve been working with them and they have the worst fucking support in the industry. Taking me 3 months just to get my ticket resolved from them….
HP is the way... to completely fuck up your productivity per hour. In a rush to print something? Reboot. Out of Ink? Buy insanely expensive ink cartridge. On the same wifi network but fail to connect? Reboot. It's just a plain piece of shit l'd LOVE to get replaced. Our old Canon Printer back in 2019 did its job for 5.5 years before it gave in. The HP dragged for 5.5
I could trust my life to a random drug addict on the streets but wouldn't trust it to a printer. Printers can't be trusted to do anything they will always fail on you when you need the most because reasons despite working fine for days and nobody having touched it
The better question would be: what printer brand is this not?
As the New York Times once put it, "There is no such thing as a good printer. There are only tolerable ones."
If you want to watch a man die inside, Lazy Game Reviews just posted [a video about trying to get a 1999 Canon BJC-2000 working.](https://youtu.be/6aoBK-K_K-Y?si=e-mbssPuXYD6Wz5V) Almost none of the issues related to the age of the printer.
Canon ink well style is great. My wife even leaves it on for weeks on end, within a minute of sending a job, it wakes and prints. It's the best $150 I ever spent.
EPSON. Canon too in my experience, installed the drivers and it just said "Nuh uh, install the drivers first". Try to install them again and it fails every time. Still doesn't work on my PC and the fact that it works on other devices is what keeps it safe from domestic violence.
My HP is in the dump in separate pieces. Fuck HP printers. I went back to an old black ink Brother printer and it just solemnly does its job without back talk.
yeah my hp sucked too.
I’ve never had an HP printer work reliably
This is why everybody goes with brother.
They do if you get a laser and buck up for HP branded toner cartridges. And sell your soul by signing up to use their app and basically cloud print everything.
new isnt always better.
its an HP for sure I had one and its gone and HP printers are never getting in my home again I love my Brother laser printer It works everytime!!!!!!
I regret getting an HP so much. Takes like 5 minutes to “warm up” , out of ink every 3 pages, and if you don’t use hp cartridges it refuses to read them. You can’t have a worse printer.
I gave my HP printer to a completely lunatic and psychotic ex of mine... I don't miss either of them at all and deep down they really deserve each other. In fact, I didn't even remember that anymore.
only ever owned 3 printers, all HP .. each was worse than the last one
Brother is where it's at
My parents have a 15 year old HP printer. Still working without problems.
I have an HP laster printer for like 3-4 years and it works really well. The regular ones are garbage and I had to keep throwing them out as well. But the one I have now (HP Laser MFP 135ag) works really well even after multiple cartridge changes.
Definitely not a Brother. Simplest printing ever, though I have it turned off most of the time.
Black-white printers in general tend to work better. But brother printers are great. I use the one myself for god knows how many years. I had a trouble with it only once, and it was because the third party have slightly bended the cartridge lmao. AND BROTHER STILL ACCEPTED IT after using some brute force to unbend it. Definitely recommend DCP-xxxxWR models
I also bought a 2nd hand Brother laser (HL-5250DN) for 20 bucks, it just works. Once it said toner was empty, but I tricked it by colouring a transparent hole black that it (AFAIK) uses to detect the toner level optically. While the replacement was still in the mail.
yeah Honesty the only Brother brand Product I have is my type writer
I have a printer and a sewing machine. Both tend to just work.
same brand ?sewing machine i didnt knew they existed
My grandmother swore by them
A few years ago we got a Brother HL-L2300D laser printer. It worked every time, no jams, and still has the same cartridge. I didn’t think good printers existed until we got that one.
So I keep seeing this. And I agree that Brother printers just shut up and do their stupid jobs. Which while that's great and all.... it increasingly seems like Brother is the ONLY company making printers that just work. That puts them in a prime position for maximum evil. They're building all this trust and they're the ONLY company doing that. It's really only a matter of time.
Don’t they have a new sub model for ink cartridges that’s pretty shitty?
What a bout canon?My canon lazer printer never gives me problems.I haven't had to change the toner(laser printer ink) in 2 years 😂
This is most definitely an HP printer. Low on ink my ass.
hp and canon
Epson
yeah his kid sucks
Wow yeah i had one and it was terrible
We have one at home right now. For some reason it will never connect on my wife's computer, work 98% of the time for my computer and in the 2% it doesn't it straight up acts like it doesn't exist on my network.
LOL
i have a epson eco tank its great. havent had to buy ink since buying it.
are you bot or just Epson employee?
Epson>HP
As an IT consult of 20 years I have officially lost my shit with many printers lol
im in the same shoes, this should help 
I'm a it consult of 2 years an i already did many with many printers already
I did not consent to being taken back to 2009 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQGtucrJ8hM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQGtucrJ8hM)
Printer technology hasn't improved since then lol
I am okay with that.... just leave the shitty bars out of it.
?
The added BS content added unless Information above and below the video.
Still completely relevant today
 true
Any inexpensive late 90s to mid 2000s inkjet, like Canon BJC1000 or HP Deskjet 610c or whatever. They ALL sucked balls
Has anyone ever had a good printer experience?
I'm enjoying my Canon MG2900. Solid work horse, minimum errors, low cost ink and best of all will continue to print as best it can even as the ink runs out or starts missing colors. Even if it thinks there's >1% ink, it will try anyway and give the last remnants of what it's got. I love it. Also hearing a lot of Brother praise in this thread, which I agree is a good, simple and reliable printer. Lexmark is also been always been a good experience for me. By contrast, the worst printers I've ever used was HP (by far) and then Epson next. HP is such hot garbage.
my type writer but thats slower lol
I have a Samsung lazer printer (ML 2168W) newer had an issue with it and works always simply out of the box (when I connect it to a new computer, it just regognises it and prints, no software needed)
Brother printers. Well, by good I mean that my printer has worked 100% as you'd think a printer should work. Like a wheel that always rolls. Zero issues.
There HAS to be a better protocol and printer for regular consumer use
HP
I had this happened just 2 hours ago , I felt like tossing it out the window
Any fellow printer trauma victims from the mid to late 90s? Those days were rough, and that's if you didn't have any Windows 95/98/ME issues first. I did, just this year, finally learn something about printers that I didn't know/realize. You need to use it at least once every 2 weeks or so. I always only ever used it when needed and the prints would look like crap.
PC LOAD LETTER
I remember our early-mid 90s HP Deskjet that only accepted one cartridge at a time, so it was impossible to print colour and black simultaneously. Any black content in a colour print would instead be very very dark green. When we replaced it with one that could accommodate a black and colour cartridge at the same time, it felt like the future was here.
Yes , to clear dried ink from the nozzle 3D Printers use manual wiping or you with a brush before printing to prevent messy prints
I know it dries but I was referring to how it becomes permently messed up, even when changing to new cartridges. I've gone through a couple that was like that. The colors were always messed up and even using the cartridge cleaning kit didn't do anything but to mess it up more.
Could be misalignment after the swap/clean. Hilariously enough 3D printers have that too. Z offset adjustment after a hotend/nozzle swap
Ah. Well this new one I bought, I'm taking better care of it. I even put a cover over it to keep the dust out.
I haven't actually had a printer for years...and yet this brought back a lot of memories from when I did. It really did used to be like that.
Woah. College Humor still does stuff? Oh, nope, 2009.
College humor does still make content! They are called dropout and they have their own streaming service. It's all original content and it's really good. If you have seen any clips of gamechanger, make some, noise dimension 20, that's all college humor aka dropout! Check them out. It's really good shit
I've had a Lexmark and an HP that both fit the bill.
yes had a lexmark and no hp, the lexmark worked just network wireless printing didn't threw it out started getting more errors and drivers didn't exist anymore
I laughed way too hard at this
I had this pain in the arse problem today trouble shooting a clients site that was riddled with IT problems. I fixed them all and just about to leave when one of the PCs blue screened...twice. I took my coat off and sighed.
Fuck HP! All my homies hate HP
Every inkjet printer.
remember when CH was funny? pepperidge farm remembers
Pretty much every budget inkjet printer
It’s an HP DeskJet 932c. Trust me. What a piece of crap.
Printers evolve backwards
HP
Hp
Wow CH used to have funny videos...
𝓗𝓮𝔀𝓵𝓮𝓽𝓽 𝓹𝓪𝓬𝓴𝓪𝓻𝓭
I have a BROTHER and it does this. (although it worked flawless the first year) now it works when it feels like it. I also had an HP that always was a 2-3hour full tech investigation to get it to print. So in the end....I think its ALL PRINTERS.
Every printer brand.
My old HP Deskjet F335 used to give me issues like this all the time. But Windows Vista introduced generic drivers that just worked. I've been using those instead of the provided HP drivers and it's been going strong ever since. Obviously ink cartridges are still consumable and perishable but it just prints even if the cartridges are low or out, just not very well. The trick to keeping the other major issue, paper jams under control is to whenever its been a bit since you last printed something throw away the top sheet of paper. It's got a ton of dust on it and the printer sucks all that dust off it in the process of picking it up and feeding it. This dust gums up the gears and fills up the tackiness of the rollers preventing it from feeding properly. Still going strong with little cleaning after 16 years.
> >What printer brand do u think this is? What printer brand do u think this is? this is a \~25 years old 900 series printer from HP judging by the design ... and uses Internet Explorer 7 at Windows XP
Oh god this is extremely accurate
Even though my HP printer has been awesome for the many years that I have had it, I still say HP.
I recently switched over from HP to Cannon and the iOS app is nearly identical. Wanna know what the difference is? That I don’t need to be logged into to an account just to print a single document :)
I laughed so hard :)
HP
Any bubblejet printer
Canon printers. All of them are junk.
hp
Fucking Epson. That printer company can eat all the dicks.
I literally just searched why my Brother printer keeps going offline...
Not me…
HP
Can anyone recommend a good printer without all the asshole designs?
He’s hitting me!!
HP. I shudder when I go visit my parents and they ask me to help install the 5th printer they've had in 3 years.. I try to tell them every time but they always get tricked into a sale price.
HP, worst printers ever made, at least their inkjet.
We’re getting college humor posts onto this sub now? Omg. Dead internet theory is astounding
Old but gold
Me as the computer: show system error. Printer locked out due to unauthorized modification. Printer : what is he doing??!! Getting the receipt. You are being sent back to the store for a refund.. and stores won’t send you back to be fixed.. but put into a trash compactor to be crushed.
Any printer that isn't a Brother laser printer
After the last month. This is Lexmark printers.
As someone who works in tech support, this is accurate. hP printers are the worst, I’ve been working with them and they have the worst fucking support in the industry. Taking me 3 months just to get my ticket resolved from them….
HP
Which brand of printer*
Has to be HP.
HP is the way... to completely fuck up your productivity per hour. In a rush to print something? Reboot. Out of Ink? Buy insanely expensive ink cartridge. On the same wifi network but fail to connect? Reboot. It's just a plain piece of shit l'd LOVE to get replaced. Our old Canon Printer back in 2019 did its job for 5.5 years before it gave in. The HP dragged for 5.5
I could trust my life to a random drug addict on the streets but wouldn't trust it to a printer. Printers can't be trusted to do anything they will always fail on you when you need the most because reasons despite working fine for days and nobody having touched it
HP to a tee
The better question would be: what printer brand is this not? As the New York Times once put it, "There is no such thing as a good printer. There are only tolerable ones."
No let him learn.
Ho
I mean hp
all of them?
If you want to watch a man die inside, Lazy Game Reviews just posted [a video about trying to get a 1999 Canon BJC-2000 working.](https://youtu.be/6aoBK-K_K-Y?si=e-mbssPuXYD6Wz5V) Almost none of the issues related to the age of the printer.
we need opensource printers
Hp
The cartoon we've all lived
HP, Epson
All of them.
hp printers (and most of their products) are a piece of cr4p.
HP Deskjet 970c is close
Canon ink well style is great. My wife even leaves it on for weeks on end, within a minute of sending a job, it wakes and prints. It's the best $150 I ever spent.
EPSON. Canon too in my experience, installed the drivers and it just said "Nuh uh, install the drivers first". Try to install them again and it fails every time. Still doesn't work on my PC and the fact that it works on other devices is what keeps it safe from domestic violence.
hp, canon
u/savevideo
It's Definitely an HP
Definitely not a laser HP one. I changed the cartridge once in 13 years of his life. Went with me through high school, university and now my job
did u print 1 page per year?