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zxm 201 days ago | parent

i've always thought there was a market for turning all those obsolete fax machines into cheap thermal printers for infrequent home use. would be better than landfill.

or an old zx spectrum thermal printer. i don't need quality, just a cheap way to print out a small amount of things.

i do have a laser i use for printing <20-30 pages a year. it just seems a waste of space for the low page count.

bmonkey325 201 days ago
I’ve owned two laser printers
- HP Laser Jet III+
- Brother 20170W
I hope the Brother lasts as long as the the great HP did. That would take me to 2028. The HP still worked but I had mined out the source of consumables in 2007. I hold my breath for the Brother. Alas, I have watched the ink schennaanigans and vowed to stay as far away from modern printers as I can.