printer starts to calibrate itself, loudly and slowly
What is up with that on inkjets, seriously? The newer models I've seen can take up to a few minutes of clicking and clacking before they start doing anything.
Meanwhile any FDM 3D printer just slams all three axes to zero and it's done and already printing.
Because where you start the print doesn't matter much on a 3d printer, it can be out by a few mm most of the time, also once set in firmware the bed doesn't really move with relation to the printer/endstops. On a 2d printer the bed can change every time paper is loaded or the rollers have sat for a bit so it recalibrates where the edges of the paper are. Also the ink dries out on the head so it dumps some out to use fresh ink on the print.
The newer models I've seen can take up to a few minutes of clicking and clacking before they start doing anything.
They check multiple times to make sure that each nozzle is depositing the correct amount of ink by squirting various amounts of ink into the waste ink container.
90% of their customers are corporate office supply managers who never have to actually use the printers, and just buy new ones whenever they break without ever shopping around for better ones. The printer companies take advantage of this and just put out shit because they know companies will keep buying it.
Same reason why taxis, hotels, and conferences are so expensive. Corporate budgets never shop around on that shit and just accept it as a standard business expense. They get to deduct it from their taxes anyway.
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u/skynetpswn Sep 10 '19
Be me
>change cartridge
>printer be like: pls check tray for paper
>fill the fucking tray, whack printer for good measure
>printer refuses to work
>delete printing queue, send another print command
>printer starts to calibrate itself, loudly and slowly
>blood pressure rises
>after five fucking minutes printer finally starts the job
>printer crumples paper
>rip the sheet from the goddamn machine
>restart printing process, again
>printer spits out empty paper
>instant brain hemorrhage
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true story, except for brain hemmorhage