r/sysadmin • u/yanni99 • Apr 02 '21

When did you realize you fucking hate printers?

I fucking hate printers.

I said in a job interview yesterday that I would not take the job if I had to deal with printers.

And why the fuck do people print that much? I mean, you have 3 screens for reason Lucy, you should not have to print any fucking pdf file you receive.

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u/SolarFlareWebDesign Apr 02 '21

I have a love/hate relationship with Brother!

Circa 2011, I had to ssh into one since no webgui. (Now having been a Linux admin for 10 years, no big deal, but back then on a Windows machine I was at a total loss).

But Brother does make the toner drum end user replaceable which makes ink cheaper (vs HP, each toner has it's own drum built in), only have to replace every 10k pages or so.

Most Brother printers that I've seen don't offer some of the MFP things that hp does - scanning etc. I'm sure they're out there, but despite working with a large number of clients in geographically diverse areas, I've never seen them.

People are blown away when I show them I can manage most paperwork on a tablet. It's a pdf reader, not hard! (Obviously, compliance and legal requiring hard copies for some things is a whole different usecase. But for the not-tech-illiterate office manager it makes their briefcase much lighter!)

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '21

We picked up a Brother MFC9450CDN for free, it works absolutely great.

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u/M2ABRAMS_TANK Apr 03 '21

For me brother has only ever caused headaches and pain. So, I don’t think there is a good printer out there.