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Printers
I have some HP injets. Horrible, never buy one again. Thought I'd be smart and invest in a Magicolor 2200 from Minolta, much worse. The Minolta even has fuses encased in plastic parts that have no electronics in them, that are blown at a certain number of copies by the electronics. Then you have to buy another, unless like me you happen to x-ray the part, see the blown fuse, and dig through the encapsulant to replace it, after which 10,000 more copies are available. Price of simple plastic part with foam rubber roller? $150. Now I can't see any other messages on its lcd screen because it's complaining my drum life is low -- yet print quality is still perfect. I can buy a new refurb printer for less than that will cost me, or maybe hack the linux it runs and find out how to turn this off I suppose. And so on -- there's more on this model, but it's long and boring. I hear similar tales of woe from everyone I ask. I do need a printer to run my business, and no, my 20+ yr old Okidata dot matrix (which still works!) won't quite cut it.
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