Re: All printers stink

Anyone who claims printers are better made today than 10 years ago is living in a delusion.

There was a reason they cost nearly 10x as much for the same basic technologies back then. They may be faster, and may have somewhat improved output, but they are definitely made less reliable and break down much more often and more easily.

Reliability is just not the design consideration. Parts are smaller and thinner, made of lighter and less durable materials.

I can't speak for microwave ovens, mine is about 25 years old and works the way it did new, which is to say, adequately. Again, newer models have more features, but also have more parts to fail. Mine has no clock, no touch pressure switches, uses a simple timer with a bell. The company probably is long out of business. It came with a 5 year warranty, and has continued to work without any repair for 5 times that time. I haven't even needed to replace the bulb in it. It gets a lot of use, also.

It cost me $44 new and it looks like the day I bought it also. It isn't pretty, it just works.

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Al Bundy wrote:
On Jul 4, 1:37 pm, Stevep...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
What's up with printers these days? I've went through every brand and
they are all bad. No not the print quality, just the basic stuff.

I had a few nice printers in the mid 90s and ditched them for what I
thought would be improved printers. The main problems are the simplest
problems, to actually get the printer to feed paper through
consistently without jamming. The second issue is also basic: to get
ink to flow. This is ridiculous. Printer have two basic functions: to
feed paper and put ink on it. That's it! TWO things to do and they
can't even do this. This is 2008 hello!

People marvel at the speed of technology. I marvel at the digression
of technology in many areas. For instance Microwave ovens way back in
the 1980s would boil water in 45 seconds flat, even the cheapest
micros. Today I have one of the most powerful m ovens and the damn
thing takes well over two minutes to accomplish that feat. In 2008 we
are still driving gas guzzling cars. This is insane. We drive in is
35MPG cars today. *** in the 1970s there were 35mpg cars!! What's up
scientists and r&d people? Too many coffee breaks?

You're just wrong or you're playing with yourself.

First, your statements are too ambiguous to consider seriously.
Microwaves of the 80's often were 650 watts output or so. Now they are
1000-1100 or so and the input power is about the same so they are much
more efficient. It takes so many BTU's to boil a given amount of
water. You can put four cups or two pounds of water in a container and
measure the temperature rise in two minutes. Multiply that by 17.35
(guessing here) and you get the wattage output of that oven. It's all
very predictable and measurable. A 1000 watt oven boils much faster
than 650.

Printers are better and faster too. If you don't have the correct
paper or know how to take care of things, nothing will work for you. I
think that's where you're at. You are 25 years older and not 25 years
wiser than you were. Science has passed you by.
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