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Webarchive extractor on pc12/17/2023 ![]() I was one of the first people to have a computer and printer, and I was embarrassed. I was concerned my instructors might question wether I typed it, or used a dot matrix printer. Four years plus graduate school, and all I needed to pay extra for was 2 ribbons which were cheap. I had a inkjet (bought for an Atari 1020?) printer in college. An Epson dot matrix, I mean, nobody liked their dot matrix printers, and an Apple Stylewriter that was finicky, not crisp, and didn't hold much ink. ![]() Toner is expensive.īefore the Deskwriter I had printers I was less happy with. Lexmark color laser: great physical printer but the controller board hangs. HP OfficeJet X page at once, a great idea, but the jets jam if you don't use enough color, and the paper path breaks.īrother printers: always yelling at me for some reason, and they wear out. The toner is very expensive and the products are poorly made and not easily repaired.Įpson Workforce Pro: needs to print every week or its jets dry out. Since about 2007 I haven't been happy with a printer. Was the workhorse for a political campaign. Lexmark laser, bought used, worked with 3rd party toner, fast, networked, postscript. 6210? Worked great, beautiful color, obsoleted by USB replacing parallel ports.Ĥ. ![]() It was priced to pay HP enough for the printer even if you never bought toner.ģ. Built-in Ethernet print server, fast, bulletproof. Built-in localtalk networking, connected to two Macs over phonenet. I had a number of great printers before they adopted the DRM to enforce their razor+blades model.ġ. In the panic they are in, it's understandable that this will lead to crappy business practices. The market should be shrinking naturally, and so every printer company is trying everything they possibly can to grow or at least keep from shrinking as much. I have never owned a printer myself, and my parents still own one but buy ink on a yearly basis now. So much of our lives happens "digital-only" that printers aren't needed by most people, and those who do need them don't need as much ink. The industry grew to expect this, most households with a computer also owning a printer and regularly buying ink for it. When I was growing up we always had a printer, and while ink wasn't cheap, it wasn't too bad, so we used it a lot and printed everything we needed. This is the dying gasps of an industry that is mostly irrelevant in the modern age. > I can't wrap my head around how the printer market has turned into this absolutely dispicable, foul state that it is in right now. I will likely return this printer, but thought HN should know what Brother seems to be up to. I was a happy HP customer for years, and only switched to Brother (which, by all accounts, is a much smaller / less renowned company) for the sole reason to not be vendor locked. It's one thing to say "We refuse to use 3rd party toner", and another to accept the toner, and then just purposefully print like garbage. I literally cannot think of something, product wise, more evil. Not only is the above, post-sale firwmware update a change of what I understood to be Brother's historical policy, the method is beyond evil.īrother seems to be apparently accepting the ink, but then purposefully making the print quality poorer. For a second I was relieved, but then started to search for other issues, and found this: I then noticed an OSS/python project to just handle it via a package. Wanting to update the firmware, and being on Linux, I started to look at ways to do it manually.Īfter finding a few guides to do so manually: I recently bought a Brother colour laser printer, with the understanding that OEM toner was not chip-locked. Note: Because NLA has different collection policies than Archive-It, not all methods, or their outputs, are mirrored between TroveCollection and ArchiveItCollection and PandoraCollection and PandoraSubject.Tell HN: Brother printers now locking out non-OEM paraphernaliaĤ99 points by bbarnett 11 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 294 comments The class named PandoraSubject has many methods for extracting information about a National Library of Australia (NLA) Pandora subject using its subject identifier. In : seed_url = aic.list_seed_uris()Įxamine the source in aiu/pandora_collection.py for a full list of methods to use with this class. Out: 'Social media content created by Willamette University.'
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