I beg to differ. It’s ink jet printers that are the work of Satan. The print quality isn’t always great and the jets tend to dry out. Laser printers work just fine. And the toner cartridges tend to last a really long time. When you do as little printing as I do, they last forever.
See? We have another IT guy with knowledge about printers here, which just goes to show the board is infected with them, no matter the subject.
I still think the topic will do better in IMHO. 
I concur, I was just joking around a bit.
I’d be interested in that.
Can I afford a color laser printer? I used to have a B&W laser printer years ago. When I do print something I’m going to want it to be in color.
Colour laser printers can be fairly reasonably priced these days, but they are only really useful for printing colour documents and charts and such; photos printed on a colour laser printer generally suck a bit, so if your colour printing requirements include photos, a laser probably isn’t a great choice.
I have started a printer thread.
I don’t know. Can you? 
I have no real experience with colour laser printers, but as to price and what they’re good for, I’m inclined to concur with @Mangetout just above. Back in the day, I had both a black and white laser printer for documents and a colour inkjet for photographs.
The inkjet was a PITA for the reasons I mentioned. But when it was working, it could produce tolerable photographs from JPEG files on ordinary paper, and quite good ones on expensive glossy stock that were nearly the quality of conventional colour prints.
As to price, they cost a lot more than conventional black-toner laser printers, but that cost has come down so much over the years that even colour laser printers are pretty cheap – a quick look at Amazon shows them in the range of $250 to about $400 for home models; they can also get a lot more expensive but those are mainly high-volume business models. But the question is, if you’re using them for photographs, will they produce satisfactory quality? Almost certainly not on ordinary paper; ink jets worked particularly well on photo-style glossy paper.
I once heard it explained, at least in the context of an arrest, as “the difference between what you have and what you know”.
IIRC, I read this when the BLM protests were going on. Using a PIN instead of biometrics was one of the things I’d see popping up on facebook as advice for people planning to attend them.
Sincere and enthusiastic thanks to the mods for recognizing the problem and dealing with it by issuing two separate thread bans. Fingers crossed she reins herself in, whether or not she actually understands and accepts that it’s her own dumb ass that’s the problem.
I will be buying another printer because I like to print weird things, and print them in color.
I’m chuckling because my mother reminds me of Beck sometimes, and she just LOVES to print things. She doesn’t trust anything on her computer “because it can always just go away”.
So any receipt, any bank statement, and any cute little animal she wants to show someone, she has to print it out. She says about half her friends have email, but she doesn’t know their addresses.
The biggest problem is, she lives in a retirement home … that has dozens of printers, in offices and apartments.
See the trouble? Especially when she refuses to pause for two seconds and check the destination of her multi-page right-wing glurge? “Oops, it didn’t print, I’ll do it again!”
^^
And that’s why I hate printers and the dumb users using them. And trust me, you don’t have to live in a retirement home and be a little demented, young(ish) office people behave the same way. I’ve seen shelves full of physical folders with printed out emails much too often.
I saw the ATMB one. Where is the other one?
Semi-related…Over the years, I’ve told coworkers, many times, that if they print something and it doesn’t print, don’t keep hitting print over and over, just let me know and I’ll fix it (instead of the printer eventually spitting out 15 copies of it).
Reminds me of this clip from The Good Place.
I missed that one. That’s three then.
The other two are MPSIMS > Socialised health care, Australia style and IMHO > Locking down your device when crossing borders.
Thank God! I was worried this was turning into Mild Printing of Beck
Three thread bans in what, a couple of days? That’s fairly impressive, for someone who never does anything wrong, or says anything mean to anyone, no matter how mean they are to her.
Looking around my first-floor home office, I count five, including the printer/scanners. In the upstairs office there are four more, two of which are printer/scanners. But then, I also have two laptops, four desktops (including the offline Windows xP and Win7), three Fire tablets, one Kindle Paperwhite, and one smartphone. I can’t afford to have a computer, printer or scanner go down without backup.
Indeed. When the Jerks get to decide what being a Jerk is, this place becomes less like a community, and more like the shitscape we are all living in.