Comment on Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Laser is the answer. Inkjet dries and clogs the jets if not used often like back when it was invented. Hardly anyone prints like that anymore.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only problem with laser is the desk size for color laser. If you don’t print very often, and you want color, a laser can take up space.

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    • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you don’t print very often and you want color, inkjet is terrible because of the short lifespan of the cartridges. Your library will probably have a printing service available for cheap or free. I think mine does color too. I get $35 of print credit every month for printing just for living in the county. Otherwise there’s always commercial print shops.

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      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Totally agree. I’ve been keeping ink tanks in ziplock bags so they don’t dry out.

        I think I might cut over to a B&W inkjet. There are tiny versions of those now, and I can print color elsewhere.

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• crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Community ink tanks, with pipelines to transmit the ink from where it is mined to substations, and on and on.

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  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The children yearn for the ink mines?

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    • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can’t print your homework? Back to the mine with you!

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  • errer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Water pipelines to the home. Gas pipelines to the home. Ink pipelines to the home. It just makes sense.

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  • BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I want a clam chowder pipe straight into the kitchen.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We also need some sort of way to prevent heads from drying out so quickly.

  Printer companies know heads dry out, and they ship tanks with caps / tape for prevent dry out on retail store shelves. But once the tanks are installed, printers just leave the heads exposed to the air. Like a pen without a cap, the tanks dry out.

  I print like 5 times a year. So 90% of the time, when I’m replacing a tank, it’s because the damn head dried out.

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  • ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Laser printers don’t have this problem. Their medium is already a dry powder!

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    • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Laser toner is literally micro plastic powder that gets rolled onto paper then baked, mmm

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      • trewq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What? Didn’t know this

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only problem is size. Color lasers are chonky compared to a color inkjet. And a small printer is nice if you only print a handful of times a year. They’re easier to shove in a drawer or closer.

      The days of me dedicating 24/7 desk space to a printer is over in my house.

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