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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The reason why inktjet printers are also unreliable is because of dust wich will settle in the printers heads overtimes, dust can and will rule your printer, that’s also why inkt cartrides are expensive and hard to made and produce because of the dust, that’s why inkt catride company’s are 10.000 times more cleanerthen an average hospital.
Fuck printers fuck copiers fuck scanners and fuck printers.
Printers never want to connect to a WiFi signal or to the PC
Is it just me or has anyone else printed out a page just to press it to your face
0:40, we have one of those!
3rd printer getting through its lifespan in my house and no errors with printing so far, too much stuff been printed just because they never failed to the very end of ink/laserash (next printer bought just because refill was more expensive)
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
this linus is everywhere wtf
please do 4g and 3g explained
You should do printer reviews… there are no good videos on the HP m553dn 😛
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.
Might as well buy a new printer every 3 weeks because that’s how often I gotta buy ink.
Printers are an amazing feat of engineering. They work perfectly fine until you need something last minute, then they inexplicably stop working.
Good thing my mom gave me an older laser printer when I was younger.
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?
You should do one with HP PageWide printers
So in short, get a laser printer. They just work.
which printer is best for photocopy? & very cheap price & printing cost??
I’m making printer at Minecraft(･´з`･)>_<
Not even laser printers are all that reliable anymore. An old HP LaserJet 5000 can take a two-page word document with images and text, and it had no problem. But then when I try to send the same document to a relatively new HP Color LaserJet CP2025… it hardly did jack, even after I converted the file to PDF and tried printing from a different computer. It eventually worked about ten minutes after I gave up, but it’s astonishing that a printer that’s at least fifteen years older can handle jobs better than a more recent model from the same manufacturer. And I don’t think that particular 5000 came with out-of-the-box network support, either, which makes this situation all the more laughable.
Linus sound sick
I’ve got laser
i hve dot matrix
Hey Linus , Do As Fast AS Possible video on voice search , voice recognition , cortana , Siri working
Funny that Linus ignores LED printers and that EPSON/Brother do not use thermal printheads but piezoelectric, as opposed to Canon and HP.
Also, some use permanent printheads, others come with factory installed CISS, others come with CISS but the printhead is replaceable… there’s way too much information about printers not covered here.
can you talk about wax printers?
video suggestion: SCANNER. what they are, how they work and how to use them?
Explain why printers are the laziest thing in the world, not working half the time for absolutely no reason.
Keep working on making sense of your video titles. So far they make none.
Ink jet, using a continuous Ink supply system is the way to go.
You can literally print textbooks in colour whilst barely scratching the surface of total ink capacity.
I can explain what a printer is in 10 seconds: A device sent from hell to drain all your money.
my ink jet printer (canon) doesnt print since the ink wont go up or wont pump up
what about printer resolutions what should that be?
Printers/Inks are one of the most resource waisting things on the planet, Stupid when you run out of ink it’s cheaper to buy a new printer which come with a set of inks then buy replacement cartridges, with the exception of massively overpriced/technical printers
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.
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.
I love this guy! Not only is he informative (quickly), he’s entertaining and cute. All the better to learn by. LOL.
What is thermal printer?
When will there be gaming printers? I want one that can handle 60 pages a second.
Yo Linus what are you doing here???