OT: Why are printers constantly redesigned with no improvements?

Jul 09, 2020 44 Replies
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It seems all printers do. They have software in that determines the time of maximum annoyance to fail et voila :)

for printing photos yes. For documents no.

I used to buy up obsolete refill kits for something like 20p or 33p & use those. There are only 2 families of ink, waterbased and the other stuff.

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Even worse than they currently are? That's not possible.

The you have the wrong stocks.

I got burned by some like Ford but made out well with others. Should have kept one I bought into and out of about 8 or 10 years ago called IMMU. A cancer drug as the main product. QRVO has been a good day trading stock for me. They are around $ 100 now and bounce 3 to 5 dollars almost every day.

Please go and work in a bank so people can get some interest on their savings, because the current rate is a fraction of a percent. Someone very high up is not investing as well as you.

The banks are probably making money for the investers. Just not paying out any to the ones in savings. I have not even looked at the CDs and savings interist in years it is so low. Not much to be made with banks now. The home loans are only around 4 % or less, Car loans even less as most motor companies are offering no interist or very low. The big money is in credit cards, those things are mostly over 10% with many over 20 %

Chase and BOA are paying about 2 to 3 % and Wells-Fargo about 8 % to the stock holders now.

I do not do bonds as I have not taken time to research how they work.

This year I lost around 100,000 dollars in a 401 K for a while,but now I am about even for the year from that last drop. But it is still up better than 25 % from around the time Trump was elected. I had 5 mutual funds and 2 of them did not recover very well,so they are going to be traded off in a few days for different ones if the DOW drops to

26,000 or less. It has been taking wild swings for the last while.

I don't understand savings. Why can't a savings account invest the money in whatever is making the money for your stuff?

Not much to be made with banks

They've been that low for 20 years in the UK. Any more than that and nobody would be able to afford a house.

If you need a loan to buy a car, don't. Just get a 2nd hand one.

I had one at 40% which I cancelled with many many grands in it. Gotta love unsecured loans.

I've never owned that much dollars! Although I have owed it.

I do not like uncertainty with large sums of money.

Rule of thumb used to be 100-age for percent of your savings that should be in stocks. Today people are suggesting things like 120 is the new

100. I stick with the old.

That's not how banks work or how the interest rate banks pay is determined either.

That is why you have never owned many dollars.

The rule of thumb has been out for many years now. The stock market and other money makers have been going crazy for the last good number of years.

Chips don't seem to stop fake inks. Almost every printer (including Epson) has chipped cartridges, but the chips can easily be copied. Brother don't use them last time I bought one. The fake cartridges for that were half the price, as no chip. $1.20 instead of $2.40.

Well it pissed me off as it didn't clearly state this on the box.

Researching won't negate the fact that they bring out new models every 5 minutes.

I don't even do that. I connect tanks to it and I pay the equivalent of $0.15 a cartridge.

That path isn't present on my machine.

Those things still exist! I thought they went out decades ago, yet you can win one with a pack of Pringles.

I was born in 1975. The camera I used until ther early 90s was a Russian Fed 4, with Kodak film. I managed to find a supplier that made lenses that fitted it, and got a telephoto.

Do not buy a Fuji digital camera, they lie. My 10MP camera only does 2.5MP. The 10MP image is no clearer. Canon make good digitals.

A lot of people think Renault and Fiat are good too, doesn't mean they're right.

Now try to overtake someone not in a Lada.

Colour lasers aren't as good quality, as the ink colours cannot merge.

Not necessary. When you need to print, you print. If it's clogged, you unclog it. No sense cleaning it when you're not going to use it, that just wears it out and wastes ink.

Wrong. You can buy either. Most are water soluble.

But 10 times cheaper to run. Toner is exceedingly expensive.

You can put either ink in any printer.

HP? They really do make some s*it. They had a networked one at my work, when the printer was switched off, the driver could lock up any desktop connected to it! Completely locked up, couldn't even open the task manager. Turn the printer on, the computer wakes up, crazy.

I use ink tanks with tubes feeding the printer. 20 times cheaper than fake ink.

Or lost many dollars. For everyone that makes a mint on the stock market, there is someone who lost that amount.

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