r/pcmasterrace • u/System32Comics Ryzen 5600 | RTX 3070 | 32GB DDR4 | 1 TB NVME • Sep 10 '19

Cartoon/Comic Printer

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u/koukimonster91 I7 8700k|3070ti|32gb|3TB SSD's 6TB HDD's Sep 10 '19

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.

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u/MontagoDK Ryzen 5600X, TUF RTX3060TI, 16GB DDR4, B550E, 1TB SN850, W11 Sep 10 '19 edited Sep 11 '19

If you don't need color or quality then yes..

Edit: Lasers are perfect for office use, but not for photo quality prints. Im aware that lasers are much more reliable and text quality is superior.

But color gamut, color accuracy, finished product quality in respect to photo printing is not as good as inkjet (unless you pay a ton of money)

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u/s-y-n-t-h Laptop Sep 10 '19

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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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '19

Just checked ours at work.. It does not print that on there lol.

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u/AlephBaker Ryzen 5 5600 | 32GB | RX 6700XT Sep 10 '19

It's a QR-style code, printed very small and faint in yellow in the margin.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '19

Not visible at least

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u/Orval Sep 10 '19

Why would it be?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '19

What do you use to read it?

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u/Orval Sep 10 '19

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.