Every home printer I’ve owned, regardless of the brand, has been difficult to set up in the first place and then will stop working from time to time without an obvious reason until it eventually craps out. Even when consistently using the maintenance functions.
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There are many layers of greed and incompetence that other people will go into, but one underrated problem with printers compared to other areas of “tech” is that they have to deal with the physical world using moving mechanical parts. This is inherently much less reliable than only dealing with 0s and 1s inside electronic circuits.
Which is also why we now have mini computers inside every other thing in our house, even though they’re in many ways a lot more “complicated” than the gears and shafts and pulleys they’re replacing. They’re just a lot more consistent, and in the long run that’s easier to deal with at scale than a “simpler” system that has to deal with the unknowns of dirt and moisture and material expansion/fatigue and everything else that goes on in the physical world.
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because printers are functionally disposable because that’s what people buy.
if you want reliability you can go drop a [grand ](https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/8176157/Lexmark-MS821dn-Laser-Monochrome-Printer/)or more and get a printer that will spit out millions of pages a year.
instead you spend $[60 ](https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/901763/Canon-PIXMA-MG3620-Wireless-Inkjet-Color/)for a printer, copier, fax, scanner inkjet printer that gets used once a month.
Printers are more complex than people give them credit for. They have to take a digital image and translate it onto a physical page without it looking like shit. If you want a printer that just works, buy enterprise equipment.
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