Well, ... Ok ...

Literally my day to day x)

Get fucked for buying an HP printer.

1. Don't print. There's pretty much zero reason to print anything in 2019. If someone (teacher/boss) asks you for printed material, load your document on a brand new tablet, smack them in the head with it, get the screen repaired, and then smack them again with the tablet. The whole ordeal will be cheaper than maintaining a printer.

2. If you absolutely must print, for example to hang a poster on the wall: Pay to get it printed at a shop. Owning a printer in 2019 makes about as much sense as owning a combine harvester because you like toast.

Printers add a slight amount of cyan, yellow and magenta to B/W prints in order to make your colors run out faster. They also pay ink like 0.5 cents per cartridge for production and sell it for 15-20 bucks. They basically make money with ink, that's why printers are so cheap. Buy a laser B/W printer it's your best shot nowadays.

@bittersweet, possibly the best #rant of the year.

Just a marketing strat to fuck customers!

@scarface78987 Also, yellow is needed in color toner printers for the CIA to track you. Some brands refuse to print if yellow is empty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

funny how we progressed from black and white printers that had no problems printing color documents* to color printers that have problems printing black and white documents

*yes, of course, they came out black and white, you know what i meant, send color file to b&w printer, no problem.

@bittersweet WTF. I thought this was a joke, but you just blew my mind. A quote:

"Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, its existence became public only in 2004."

That is downright scary.