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12 points

Who in the world is using a USB printer in 2023?

Ethernet bby

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Who is using an Ethernet printer in 2024?

Wifi bby

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32 points

People who value their sanity. WiFi is unreliable.

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Yeah, wireless printers can eat my refuse. I just spent a fruitless hour fixing my neighbours printer. Their crime? Restarting the router spooked the printer connection to the network. Shit system integration and poor documentation make this job needlessly painful.

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8 points

Never had a problem with mine.

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5 points

Eh, for SOHO users with a clear 2.4GHz space, probably works well enough. But for us IT people… We Know

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If anybody has issues with your printers wireless connection constantly dropping. Try setting a static IP address for the printers wifi connection. I’ve fixed 3 wireless printers by doing this. My wife’s work bought her a new wireless laser printer 2 years ago. Thing would lose its ip address every time it went into sleep mode, and it would only reacquire an IP address about half the time. Changed it to a static IP address, and now it always just works.

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3 points

Who is using a printer at all in the 2020s? Fuck printers.

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8 points

Who in the world would put a cheap blackbox in their household and give it access to the internet.

Selfhosted CUPS bby!

The reasonably new android phones seem to detect unix network printers now, so wireless printing works as well. Mostly… we’re talking about the printers after all.

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Those bastards like me that want reliability. I am willing to fight with the printer but not deal with the better half when that expensive shit box doesn’t work

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2 points

All the people who deal with an IT department that has a brain explode if you ask them to go off DHCP.

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2 points

my highschool robotics club :)

we had a printer in our CAD area that we would just plug into whichever PC needed to print. it was pretty jank but worked, and that not the kind of thing worth spending money/effort on.

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