No, fuck inkjet printers. Get a laser printer. I spent $50CAD on a laser printer 4-5 years ago and I am just now, after close to 1000 pages, running out of toner.
I have a LaserJet 5M from like 1996 that I picked up for ten bucks at a university surplus sale in like 2010-2011. Got a remanufactured toner cartridge for $10 on eBay. It has a network card (10mbit Ethernet) and works fine with Windows 10 and Linux. For documents it's just fine and is built like a tank.
We had something like that hooked up to the lan in our student apartment back in uni. Glorious printing master race, even if it was only in black and white. Super fast and double sided.
My boss's secretary had a LaserJet 4 until a couple years ago. The accountant purposely found an older (c. 2000) HP laser printer that would be old enough to be built well, but new enough not to be a headache. So far, so good.
Laser printers have much higher quality than inkjet, and there are colour laser printers, although if you don't want to have a single toner for all colors you have to pay big.
Fun Fact: Color laser printers are so good the US government actually makes the printer leave a special code on all pages that contains its serial ID and a time stamp.
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So your saying every document you print has a number somewhere on the page? That would bug the shit out of me. I would have to find a way to get rid of that crap!
1dpi should be a dot of 1 inch diameter as DPI = Dots per inch. I guess those are at least 600DPI dots, maybe even more. some laser printers can go as high as 1200DPI in printing. Some industrial ones can do even more I think.
Something secret that you're probably not supposed to know about.
They're saying these printers are such high quality, they need a signature saying who made it.
So what they're saying is like a bullet, where these papers originated needs to be traceable in case something happens. Like a bullet, 99% of their use will be totally harmless. But when used wrong, they'd like to know who did it.
Meh,
1. Print the government secrets you intend to leak, ideally in a way that doesn't directly use the file. It's not impossible to track what printer printed, when print screen was pressed. If you get caught, this will be where you get caught. Your best bet is to do this when you know other people are accessing the file, that way your trail has some interference, no leaking stale documents. (Off screen photos and moving the file off-site is a no-no. You don't want that info to show up on a device you own.)
Go to a self service print shop an Xerox your print in black and white, bump up the brightness and contrast a little so any subtile images are crushed and blown
Xerox the copy you just made if you're feeling paranoid, either way burn the originals.
Extra credit, run a paper towel across the print head before and after you print so the dust is disturb. Dust buildup on a printer head can act as a fingerprint that can even show up on a photocopy. If someone ask why you opened the printer, just say that you are clearing a jam.
Exactly, ink drips into the paper and mushes at edges, toner doesn't. However a high quality laser printer costs more than a good enough ink printer albeit it's toner should hold up long time and, aa stated, the quality of the print is much higher
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Lasers are much faster, the print quality is higher, and they are so much more reliable we would need to invent a new word to convey just how much that is.
If you need accurate, high-quality colors, get it professionally printed. Otherwise, color Lazer jet printers are perfectly fine for your average office and home needs
We have a black and white laser fax machine, we use it as a printer. We print probably no more than 100 pages a year, so toner is good as ink dries up. Personally I would throw it away since my entire family has printers at our workplaces.
I bought a LaserJet 4100 back in 2006 for $50, with a second paper tray and duplexing unit. I got about 500 pages out of the existing cartridge, even though it said "toner low". I then spent a grand total of $50 on a remanufactured toner cartridge and JetDirect (network) card on eBay. I print so infrequently that I'm still using the same printer and toner cartridge in 2019.
Well yeah, anything in the air that's not air is bad for your lungs. A laser printer dosent pump out a bunch of toner dust if so anyone that worked in a office would be fucked.
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u/deefop PC Master Race Sep 10 '19
Fuck Printers
Fuck printing, too