Printers As Fast As Possible
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ย. 2015
- Modern printers are incredibly useful, but notorious for having questionable reliability. How do laser & inkjet printers work, and why do they often give us a hard time?
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How do printers work? simple: they don't
+Federico Canale true
LOL
Wise words... wise words indeed
+Federico Canale Head cleanings twice before any print job...
+Federico Canale true story, they dont even act as "printers" too.
I have yet to meet anyone who had a flawless experience with an inkjet printer.
+Aspiration the Canon BJC-7000 printed many thousands of colour pages with very few easily fixable problems, it was from the days of the centronics printer interface, USB was the downfall of printers.
brian whittle Thanks for sharing your experience. Yes I agree I think a lot of the new ones are poorly manufactured.
Aspiration
it was from the days of decent size ink cartridges the black was a massive 60 ml
The only problems I've had with printers are networking ones.
I have an EcoTank as linus mentioned, Ive printed around 50,000 pages with less than $70 worth of ink. Feels good man
You forgot to mention that printers smell fear.
Yeah! If youre calm, they work fantastically! Like if youre trying to print something dumb out lol
I've watched so much Linus that whenever anyone says "speaking of" I know I can leave the room because I assume it's an ad integration.
The Bamboozler or double tap on the right side of your screen 2-3 to forward 20-30 seconds
Printers are an amazing feat of engineering. They work perfectly fine until you need something last minute, then they inexplicably stop working.
That's an illusion. In practice, pretty much anything is being done in the last minute. The printer just never works.
The laser explanation was very good but ONLY for a black laser printer. For colour you have another transfer medium called an "Image Transfer Belt" which transfers the toner from the drums CMYK, creates the image on the belt then transfers it to the paper.
If you were interested.
Source: I'm a Konica Minolta repair tech.
+Craig Ward I don't think his intent was to go over every detail of a laser printer. He didn't explain that the drum is called an OPC drum, or that newer printers use LEDs, or what a transfer roller is. Some older printers don't even use a transfer belt and the paper is run through the system for each color.
I think a good next topic would be how a scanner works.
Thanks for informing me of someone else's intentions. I'll keep that in mind for the future.
My HP printer thinks it's funny to download software updates EVERY FRICKIN TIME I PRINT SOMETHING.
Lol
😂😂😂😂😂
Screw companies that rely on overpriced ink to sell their crap! I don't think that a Kg of 3D printer filament should be *less* than a single cartridge.
That's why I started printing my documents on a 3D printer as well.
My printers great, it will print half of one page then spit the other half out blank...
Haha my printer's cartridges always seem to stop working even when it still reports about half of the cartridge left. Ink even comes out if I rub the nozzle with a piece of paper but my printer refuses to print
frumbert It will print the top half fine, then give up half way through and then start on the next page and do the same.
+Daniel Pendzich Make sure both the software paper type and the driver paper type aren't set to something other than standard letter or A4.
Also try running a configuration or startup page to see if the printer is working itself. if it is still an issue, the print driver is screwed.
Sell it to me the things I print out only need half the page the other half is wasted ink
Forgetting randomly installed programmed obsolescence and programmed malfunctions when certain specific conditions are met.
I have worked for one one of the largest producers of inkjet printers can solidly confirm that this malpractice has been going on for many years.
That's why going consumer grade anything is liable to end up poorly.
Enterprise priters (and electronics) tend to be quite a bit more robust.
Actually matrix are still widely used in some company because they are extremely reliable and can print triplicates in one pass. Also, the refills (and therefore cost per page) are dirt cheap
So in short, get a laser printer. They just work.
They are reliable asf. My ink jet takes about 15 mins to print a page. And the UI sucks. My laser jet printer connects via usb and bam with a click the page prints out
I can leave our laser printer unused for a week and still work in an instant when I need it.
+EJ Tech My dad has a 15 year old printer in his office that still works perfectly. It's a laser printer
We have ones in the office that are approaching 20 years. I'm not sure it's a big deal though, if you can find a printer that comes with real cartridges not 'starter' cartridges, they cost about as much as the OEM cartridges. The trick is finding a supplier for good cheap toner. Which my boss never found... so that was an expensive 20 years
Check epson inkjet products
Those Epson EcoTank printer spit out a shit ton of that ink into the “maintenance box” for “cleaning the printer heads”
Really? I was thinking buying one...😣
I dont get why people will print photos at home.
they know that ink is expensive yet they do it.
You can take all your photos and get them printed at a store that does it for few cents each
And you gotta love toner which is just tiny particles of plastic
+IIGrayfoxII because it's faster and way more convenient? who wants to freaking go to a store every time you want a print? It isn't cheaper if you also have to spend $1 or so in gas to get there and back, plus the extra time it takes...
Besides that, depending on your printer you can get third-party ink cartridges both black and color for about $10-15 which is obviously way cheaper, not only that but you can save even more by either refilling old cartridges or a better solution for some printers, is buying refillable cartridges which are much easier to refill the ink and if necessary will automatically reset their ink values.
Here are a couple examples if you're interested:
r.ebay.com/bLc5bw - super cheap ink
r.ebay.com/iuOwBj - refilable cartridges
(this + 500ml of set of ink would cost you around $30 and will last nearly forever, at least by comparison to the normal 10-30ml you typically get.)
+PurpleShy Guy It's not very convenient if you want to print out kinky photos of the missus, or downloaded porn.
***** It was a joke. Though there's lots of sensitive material that people wouldn't want some oik at the local print shop looking at.
Okay Linus. I have a story about my Epson XP 320. I was printing an article from the web. I set my printer preferences to print in black and white: That did not work. The printer continued to print the document in color. So i saved the web page as a pdf file, set the preferences to black and white, then printed from adobe acrobat. the printer still printed in color. So I printed the document to a pdf file again, but set it to print in black in white. When I opened the new pdf file my screen displayed a document in black and white. "viola!" I thought...sure enough the god damn printer still - STILL printed in color! - meaning the printer is printing from memory and ignoring my preferences and the fact the document I printed is literally IN black and white. I had to open the black and white pdf file in a different pdf viewer in order to print in black and white (even then, i cant be sure the printer is not using some kind of composite that ends up using color cartridges anyway). As you know, the printer will not print if any of the cartridges are expended and will require the expended cartridge(s) to be replaced in order to continue printing. I have a new black ink cartridge, and did not want to use the color cartridges because i didn't need them. But the printer seems to be programmed to force color cartridge use for the purpose of seizing and prompting you to purchase more ink in order to continue printing. This seems a lot like a kind of ransom ware in you asked me. Clearly choosing not to print in color required using workarounds and just selecting the option to print in black in white from printer preferences is not enough. Am I missing something here?
back when our biggest concern was the inability to print with our inkjet printer.
"PC Load Letter", the fuck does that mean?!
It was an old error code in the early eighties: paper cartridge : load letter
yes if you could just turn in those TPS reports.. that'll be great..
I could set the building on fire...
+The Hoax Hotel the FUCK is a grommet
+The Hoax Hotel
Paper Cassette Load Letter size paper (A4)
so basically it's hungry feed it some paper
this linus is everywhere wtf
good video as always linus. im a inkjet tech printers i work on and maintain are 15 feet long cost $1 billion each theres 6 of them i have to take care of the tanks on them are very large blue,black,white,brown and beige are the colors they use each tank holds 3 to 4 gallons. takes about 2 to 3 hours to use up all the ink
As a student on a bored afternoon I took apart an inkjet printer and found a plastic strip with graduations marked on it. I out the printer back together without this and it turns out it was what closed the feedback loop on the position control for the print head. Was great fun turning it on - the print head slammed back and forth at full speed!
You should do printer reviews... there are no good videos on the HP m553dn :P
But seriously, printer shopping is hard. Especially if you want to print text fast, and print photos good, and you aren't sure if the scanner is worth is, and you have to figure out if the toner or ink will be worth it.
Inkjet printer: we need to be online to print.
*Me setting it to print offline and seeing the long cord tethered to my desktop across the room.*
Printer: wE neED tO Be oNlinE!
I like the lighting in this video, it's good
Good video man! I learned something today!
Excluding my 1990s inkjet, I've had three since then - the first, bought in 2004, had the power brick fail immediately and was replaced by the manufacturer. It's replacement still works to this day. My current printer was bought in 2011 and still works. I haven't seen any reliability issues with inkjets.
The £100 laser printer at work, however...
Obviously a cheap laser printer is going to be dogshit. try comparing your inkjet printers to a comparable laser printer then you will see that laser is better
You should mention LED printers too. They work somewhat like laser printers but don't have mirrors in them, so they are sturdier. Also they don't run a line and then continue at the start of the next one, but print each line as a whole, each letter simultaneously.
We have some in the university and they are crazy fast.
The "Cylinder" is normaly known as the Drum or OPC (from the old days; Organic photo conductor). The toner is transfered to the paper with help from a grounded roller on the back side of the paper, known as the Paper transfer roller(PTR). Meaning the toner isn't transfered by being pressed against the Drum, but by moving the electronic charge towards the PTR as the paper passes through between the Drum and the PTR. How the charging between negative, positive and ground is setup, varies between models.
I'm that dot matrix guy - 1987 still rules my printing world! Really cheap to run too
+Techquickie Well it is a somewhat good Demonstation at 1:46 to visualizze the Process but I think you could've picked a better picture becausse what you showed was a Sheet - Offset Printing Machine which works totally different from a Laser Printer (Also known as Electro Photography).
a small loan of a million dollars $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
+raidersk8er9 Grab that shark card loan
Stop
+raidersk8er9 fake
+raidersk8er9 fake and gay
+raidersk8er9 To buy all the ink, yeah a ''small'' loan of a million dollars should do.
My inkjet printer always says that the ink is expired even though I only refilled it a month ago, but if you just take the cartridges out, and put them back in, and it says they're good. It's really annoying that I have to do that every single time I print something, and I'm wondering if it's a glitch.
That's what it's programmed to do to sell you more cartridges and milk you
Working on ink jet printers and laser printers since both technologies were introduced; I find in my humble opinion that today the optimum choice is laser printer for standard everyday printing. This includes color laser printing. Ink jet printing's biggest drawback is the ink itself. It is messy and relatively expensive. If you don't print often the ink in the nozzle tends to dry out and clog. Sometimes the ink will drip within the printer and eventually stain paper. And the cost of cartridge replacement is still high in relation to print yield. Which causes most ink jet users to not want to print regularly enough to keep the ink flowing to mitigate dry ink nozzle clogging. Laser printing provides more print yield per toner cartridge and is not prone to dry out. Laser printers do have issues such as toner settling and caking if not utilized for several months but this is typically solved by gently shaking the cartridge horizontally for a few seconds. The image transfer drum eventually does wear out and will need replacing however the typical life expectancy can easily last 3 to 6 years with average printing usage. Due to proliferation of monochrome and now color laser printer manufacturers the price of laser printers and toner cartridges have significantly dropped making them affordable. Ink jet printer technology still has the advantage in regards to printing large scale documents such as blueprints, banners, and graphics larger than 11x17 format.
I love this guy! Not only is he informative (quickly), he's entertaining and cute. All the better to learn by. LOL.
Dye-sublimation is another printer type that is popular too!
Do Brother Laser printers sometimes develop lighter prints towards the end of the toner cartridge's life. I do use aftermarket cartridges. Thanks for any replies.
The stores around where i live have begun selling inkjet printers that does not include cartridges on purchase.
I'm so happy that i got a HP LaserJet 1010 free from a company i worked for. The only downside is i have to bodge the driver to make it print.
I don't need a more advanced printer. Since i rarely print anything, and when i do i mostly print documents, forms or postal pick up notifications.
+Crozix After being fed up with the cost of ink for my families inkjet I replaced it with a color laser. Yeah, compared to an ink jet it was pricey at $300, but I have more than made up the difference in savings on the dam ink that kept drying out. I don't see myself ever getting another inkjet again.
+Crozix What do you mean by "bodge the driver", if it is reinstalling it make a script to do it for you!
I remember someone giving us a box of that for matrix paper as a kid (mid 2000s) the best use my mom could come up with it was to give to me to draw on. yes i was amused by the fringies on the side.
I would recommend going with Epson , specifically L355 model
I had it for a year now, still not even half of the ink is gone.
I printed over 1500 pages maybe.
But looking at HP printers, two of them broke before one year with me.
High end HP printers are the best in the market, (maybe xerox is better, but it depends) but HP just can't do good end user goods. It's like this for everything they do.
Desktops = Crap
Workstations = Good
Regular calculators = Crap
Graphic calculators = Good
Server and cloud hardware = Good
Home computer stuff = Crap
Gigantic printers for big graphic companies = Good
Home printers = Crap
1% actual printing
99% crash bandicoot sound effects
we have continuos ink kits now, I bought a cheap printer with one of those kits installed, printed like 500 pages in color and black and white in one sit, all ended up being cheaper than going to a printing center.
What printer would be the best value for lead sheet music and e-receipts? Should I use one from Walmart or is there a better one?
I have found out abot ifixit yesterday :)) before I see your video. I was looking for some info on an old printer (which gives me a sweet error on the color cartride). I will try refilling it. However it shows there is a problem with the cartrige, not that is empty.... and besides, all refilling materials online show a different color order in the cartrige ink compatments, which is odd comparing to my cartrige.
here is my tip to save money on printing:
go buy a canon inkjet printer. bought 8 XL ink sets (5pcs each), for 30 euro, and if you live in germany its 20 euro (10 euro was the post, couldnt you guys use smaller package?...)
and why i say canon instead of hp? well, because for some reason the ink are sold cheaper in ebay while they have equal or even bigger volume of ink, and the second reason is that the drivers do not force the printer to stop if it report there is no ink. i had printed close to 50 colored pages AFTER they were supposed to be empty with the stock normal capacity inks the printer came in.
my model is MG5650
meanwhile my friend who bought a hp printer (even after sharing with him all my bad experience with their reliability and drivers) his stock ink were not even printing
The HP machines use the canon engine currently.
How do you guys make up that awesome short? My friends and I are trying to make a video school project and would like to look at you as a reference. Any answer? AS FAST AS POSSIBLE PLEASE!
Great transition mate
I actualy had one of those old printers from the 80's when i was a kid, my grandfather was like "Its an amazing technological advanced something something" and he probably still is haha
Hey Linus, what kind of printer do you recommend for inventory barcode labels? My budget is $120.00 USD.
If toner particles also have a charge, then they should stick to oppositely charged particles or surfaces. If the laser beam neutralises the charge on the surface of the drum, I don't think it will stick on there. An error or is there something I don't know or did I make a horrible mistake here?
Either the areas touched by the laser correspond to the blank areas on the paper or that the laser actually charges particles on the surface of the drum.
nh you are the cool kid in class when you hand in your essay on A1 paper from a plotter
so impractical but so entertaining
I use a dot matrix in my Biochemistry lab sessions, still. I got it cought up the other day, and ist tried sucking the paper into it in a loop.
0:40, we have one of those!
hi there, i'm planning to buy an Epson PRINTER- but there are two identical printers (ET4550 and L655)
what do you think about the L655?, couldn't FIND review of the L 655 ON EPSON Official site.
which is the latest?
what do you recommend?, anyone?....thanks.
Can we get an as fast as possible that explains different raw performance numbers for computer components?
Like texture rate, pixel rate, and floating point performance.
The laser thing is weird for me xD but it's nice tech
Got tired of the ink costs for my families multi-function Ink Jet, and replaced it with a Color Multi-Function Laser. It cost about $300, which was twice as much as what I paid for the Inkjet, but since we didn't print a lot and the ink kept drying out, I made up the cost difference in the first year. The printer came with half capacity toner cartridges to get you started, and I have only replaced the Black one thus far. They are not quite 3x the cost of the Inkjet Cartridges, but they print a ton more pages and don't dry out or clog.The quality of the printer seems better as well, as in less jams and missfeeds, and though I don't print many photos, the few I have printed haven't seemed to be much lower quality than the inkjet. In fact one of the photos I printed was for my Passport Renewal which the Government accepted just fine.Honestly, if anyone asked me I would say not to bother with a Inkjet anymore unless you would use it a lot.
My printer is not showing up in any of my programs on windows 10 and when i try to use my android phone it says internal error. It use to work in the past whenever i tried using it on both the phone and pc so idk what's going on :(
Yes but which printer should I get to counterfiet money. Im thinking a Ricoh, but what model?
When printing, laser or ink.... Does photos become better if you make the printer print slow vs. fast? When it's taking it's time, does it yield a better result?
which printer is best for photocopy? & very cheap price & printing cost??
Ohhhh printers. Sigh.
Back when your comments didn't get any replies at all for half a decade.
Did they ever make a video about the printer dots tracking codes and stuff?
IFixIt sponsoring a video about inkjets... how fitting. IT'S 2023 AND INK PRINTERS STILL SUCK AND THEY CAN'T BE REPAIRED. Linus, time to do something. ay?
I have a laser printer, and i noticed, that the prints have too much red on them. But i don't know if it is the fault of the printer. My monitor has a TERRIBLE TN panel, and i heard that they really suck if you need true colours.
1:03 Thanks Linus... Cracked my screen
brilliant quick and affective 👍🏾
0:56 I was expecting him to say "But let's look at them in a little bit more depth. Color Depth!"
Hi , is there any way around to customize the printer firmware ..
Does the type of screen influence if your are getting tired faster?
actually, Epson uses a different kind of inkjet tech. Traditional Inkjets use heat to expand and cooling to contract the ink head. Epson uses electrical impulses which makes them faster and more durable. Also, they are trying to get out of the cartridge scheme with their new Ecotank line, with cheap tanks that hold ink for up to 2 years (ISO average) of prints for the same price of one cartridge set.
And good luck to them, but it's hard to forgive their past problems. I've been scared off Epson just like AMD, even if their quality improves, the scars never heal. they touched me funny .
how are you gonna get that ink to not dry out in those two years?
I've always just bought new inkjet printers when they are out of ink and sell the old one on kijiji (Canada's Craigslist).
this channels fucking great, it answers questions I didn't even know I had
OOOOOOH!!! Linus's hand went in front of the pop up video suggestions rather than behind!
What temperature is used?
B+ for mostly getting the laser print cycle correct... close enough for consumers....
bonus points for naming the process of charging the toner in the developer unit.........
Nice work man
Okay Linus. Which one of your employees played SCP Containment Breach?
At 3:54 to 3:58, the scream in the backgrounds was SCP-096!
From working retail at an office supply store, this is home printing according to customers:
-No brand is safe they all either cost too much or break (pretty sure it was your fault for letting the cartridges dry out 10 times)
-Lasers are never worth it (even though they totally are and for a lot of people laser would be a better fit than an inkjet)
-Replacement parts are easy to grab so there is no need to look up how much a printhead costs (no... just, no.)
-This man must be lying to me, surely all these printers are different (no they are not, the hp 8620 is a rip-off compared to its little brother)
-Brother has support staff in North America, so much better than [brand name here] (that has nothing to do with the quality of the printer...)
-I didn't know Samsung made printers, they must not be very good if I have never seen them (...sigh...)
-I'm pretty sure my other desktop printer can go bigger than 11x17 (And I'm pretty sure you have no idea what 11x17 looks like!)
I'm trying to find a smallish, reliable printer that will print color VERY quickly from a cold start. Basically, I want to plug it in, turn it on, send it a job, a receive the printout in as little time as possible. Budget is $500 or less. Does such a thing exist?
lmao
Any laser printer from Xerox or Brother
I'd recommend buying many iPads of different sizes and pulling the photo up on the iPad. Even buy an iPod for little wallet photos of that's what fancies you!
A color laser will do the job.
kevin smith we had a tiny ass photo printer... It may even do text
video suggestion: SCANNER. what they are, how they work and how to use them?
4k in 2015? linus making bank
I wanted to know how the mechanical part that pulls and places the paper works :/
thank you linus, explained well 😁
I remember the Image Writer II. Great dot matrix printer, but loud!
hello someone from 6 years ago
I have a Olivetti laser printer, they are the best for toner refills, you can get a new toner for £50 which gives you 12,500 Pages. They are amazing.
Those Ink Tank Epsons are neat, But the only ones I've seen in person print at like 3-5 PPM :(
I never had to buy replacement cartridges because the printer would break before I needed to refill. Love that Costco return policy. Now I just do all my printing at my university. Printers suck.
hello someone from 6 years ago
I bought an Epson ink tank printer a while ago and man this thing is freaking awesome, printed almost 2000 black pages and still 20 percent of my black tank is left.
So a laser printer is the same as a toner printer? I own a printer, but I refer to it as toner always. I'm pretty sure the pages aren't warn the moment after they are printed. It uses "toner cartridges".
what about printer resolutions what should that be?
I want to see a "Tech off" video between you (Linus) Jay (Jays two cents) and Logan (Tek syndicate).
A battle of tech knowledge to see who is the ultimate tech guru.
hello someone from 6 years ago
ifixit is really badass. I like that site. It gave me the instructions I needed to finish breaking my 3DS. I've had it in my bookmarks for while now. Nice to see something getting advertised that I actually like and have used.
Only thing better then a Do it Yourself site is actually being able to follow the instructions they provide with some level of competency.
You need to do an update on printers why are they so expensive now and why haven't they evolved.
I have an old colour "laser" printer and scanner combo and I almost never use it for other things than scanning. The only times I print something is when my wife want something on paper. I don't ever need that (at least I don't remember last time I did). If I need to bring something with me I upload it somewhere and look at it on my phone.
lol, I just litteraly just came back from my local tech shop to get such an epson printer, then I saw you uploaded a video Kappa
I still have a couple of inkjet printers, but honestly I prefer my laser printer (have 2 of them), laser printers although having a more expensive cost, end up being cheaper overall due to the cost of toner.
The Samsung my mother has, the highest capacity toner costs $150AUD and is capable of doing over 12000 sheets of paper before needing replacing, compare that to the cost of a tank of ink ($60AUD for 1 black for my Brother inkjet) which is only capable of half a ream of paper if it is lucky (250sheets), the toner starts to look mighty cheap.
Assuming you stick to the decent laser printers (Kyocera and Lexmark being the top dogs), the whole thing should last you forever (my oldest laser printer is currently 10yrs old and still working, I have a friend who has had the same laser printer for the last 15-20yrs and still working).
Course, that works well if you are just printing B&W, when you want colour (or photos), an Inkjet can still work out cheaper, but you have to weigh that up, how much B&W printing do you do vs colour.
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I would like to see a video about third-party ink manufacturer.
Brick and mortar stores vs online. Are you getting the same quality?
Man, fuck the inkjet business model. Preventing me from using Black ink, which there is clearly more than half of it left, just because the color cartridge is empty, even when I just want to print in black. It's bullshit.
Clear video, thanks