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Sat, 06 Nov 2021 12:53:02 +0100 last edited: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:53:18 +0100

muesli

fribbledom@mastodon.social

Do you have a (regular paper) printer at home?

Yes, and it's working

500 Votes | 67%

Yes, but it's broken

74 Votes | 10%

175 Votes | 23%

749 Votes in total
Poll has ended

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Sat, 06 Nov 2021 12:57:04 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

I have a multi functional laserprinter / scanner / fax, an ancient behemoth from previous job. I print 1 or 2 pages a year, I think...

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 12:58:25 +0100

rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org

@fribbledom

I have a couple of dozens of dead printers!
Everybody has a broken printer bring it to me: soon or later I'll find an use for the steel bars and motors inside them.

And when I have to print I use the printer of my neighbor's shop, always on, so I don't have to waste ¼ of cartrigde to clean the head.

My plan is to buy an impact printer, to get rid of the ink: when the ribbon is almost exhausted it's still possible to print placing a sheet of carbon paper between two sheets.

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:00:31 +0100

Nikov ☭ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇾🇪

niko@masto.nobigtech.es

@fribbledom helps me do street activism 😃

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Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:15:09 +0100

alsternerd

alsternerd@social.tchncs.de

@fribbledom Yes, one is working, the other is slightly b0rken.

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:17:55 +0100

Gorse

stokes@meow.social

@fribbledom I usually just print things off at the library

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:27:15 +0100

Floppy 💾

floppy@fosstodon.org

@fribbledom
There is a statement in your question and I approve.

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:27:31 +0100

Simon Morgan

https://mstdn.io/@sjm

@fribbledom Working only in the very loosest sense of the word.

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:36:21 +0100

0mega ☣ [hz]

0mega@social.c-r-t.tk

@muesli Good old FS-1030D with network interface card.

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:42:44 +0100

Rachael Ava 💁🏻‍♀️

RachaelAva1024@tech.lgbt

@fribbledom My parents own a Brother printer from the early to mid 2000’s, and it still works! The only bad thing about it is that the toner cartridges for this printer are hard to come by. In fact, the Brother printer we bought to replace it broke in just a few years, so we switched back to the old one. 😂

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 14:04:37 +0100

FiXato

FiXato@toot.cat

@fribbledom yes, and it should be working still, but I haven't needed to use it for I don't know how long, and I need to dig it up from underneath a stack of stuff before I actually can use it again.

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 14:07:06 +0100

Daniil Baturin

https://mastodon.social/users/dmbaturin

@fribbledom I print chamber/orchestral parts and other music quite often. I use a LaserJet 1200 that I traded for small help with Linux with someone.

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 14:14:33 +0100

Christian Horn

globalc@chaos.social

@fribbledom 3 convenience stores in 5min walking reach offer these services, and are much more reliable than me undusting the machine every 6 moths for a small print job..

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 14:20:24 +0100

Baggypants

Baggypants@mstdn.social

@fribbledom Do you need to borrow it?

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 14:34:12 +0100

hazelnot :yell:

hazelnot@sunbeam.city

@fribbledom It's not broken but I wouldn't call it working either cause it's out of ink and I'm broke lmao

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 14:53:19 +0100

Sandzwerg

sandzwerg@chaos.social

@fribbledom I chose it's working although it produces annoying dots on the print, but I can print stuff so 🤷

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 15:36:16 +0100

Riedler

Riedler@mas.to

@fribbledom the only reason it works so well is that it's a laser printer

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 15:40:35 +0100

🌿 Richard ₿ondi 🌿

https://fosstodon.org/users/richard

@fribbledom no, I have 2

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:10:24 +0100

Phel

phel@toot.cafe

@fribbledom Does "I have to soak the cartrige with water before use" count as working?

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:14:38 +0100

betalars :antifa:

betalars@chaos.social

@fribbledom yes and it would probably work, if I plugged it in, but since I don't need it ...

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:23:58 +0100

Allusion

https://mastodon.social/@giltay

@fribbledom I suppose it depends on your definition of "working".

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:00:42 +0100

Shyra :flagQueerVillainPride:

shyra@tech.lgbt

@fribbledom I have a 3D printer, but not a 2D printer :ablobfoxbongohyper:

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:30:50 +0100

Dave V. ND9JR

ND3JR@social.coop

@fribbledom I've had my trusty Brother HL-2240 since 2012. It was and still is my first laser printer. My parents' experience with inkjets led me to stay away from them.

My only regret about the printers I've had was getting rid of a dot matrix printer that I picked up for free from the university IT department back when I was a student. That one was also reliable & was good for printing things like the occasional email that I wanted a hard copy of.

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:10:23 +0100

Aroop Roelofs :verified:

finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza

@fribbledom We have 2 actually.
I have a Epson XP 345 with a CISS system.
My parents have a Brother DCP-L3550CDW (LED printer).

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:47:06 +0100

schokopflaster

https://cybre.space/users/schokopflaster

@fribbledom Missing option: „D: Yes and I‘m German: Unless I acquire a fax I can’t survive our bureaucracy without a printer.“

Also: Laser printer bc it lasts longer and survives bureaucratic dry spells with a scanner because one needs to scan everything for the same reason.

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 21:19:22 +0100

Stewart Russell

scruss@mastodon.social

@fribbledom apart from the fully-working boring Brother laser printer and the slightly blocked Epson inkjet, I've got fully working:

* OKI ML320 Turbo 9-pin dot matrix

* NEC Spinwriter (a painfully slow and loud daisywheelish thing from the early 1980s)

* HP and Roland pen plotters

* Epson thermal receipt printers

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:37:50 +0100

Steinar Bang

steinarb@mastodon.social

@fribbledom "Rage against the machine" https://twitter.com/wildwinter/status/1457078599937404929?s=20

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:15:37 +0100

Urusan

urusan@fosstodon.org

@fribbledom Was no for over a decade, due to moving frequently.

I figured out I could use a print shop for less total money, even though they charged outrageous prices per print job (other people's printers?). Also, public libraries.

I really was just not printing things, with maybe 1-2 print jobs per year.

Recently though, I got one because I found a printer worth getting, and also now own a house.

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 01:15:24 +0100

Elda King

https://weirder.earth/@eldaking

@fribbledom We have one but it is out of ink, which means it is not working and fixing it is nearly as expensive as buying a new one.

(A combination of bad choice of model back then, not a ton of local places that re-fill cartridges, but plenty of good cheap print shops means it is generally not worth it)

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 09:18:08 +0100

Johan Wassberg 🦭

theseal@mastodon.social

@fribbledom pre pandemic I did my printing at the office 🤷🏻‍♂️