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[SnowYetti]

My dad has an old printer that will do 4 things. It prints, scans documents, copies, and fax. 

It is not an ancient piece of technology, but I think that it is too large.  What I want to know is ; what printer will do all of those things : reliably - and wont be as cumbersome?  

[Needfuldoer]

What printer does he have now, and how often does he use it?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On 12/1/2024 at 3:54 AM, SnowYetti said:

My dad has an old printer that will do 4 things. It prints, scans documents, copies, and fax. 

It is not an ancient piece of technology, but I think that it is too large.  What I want to know is ; what printer will do all of those things : reliably - and wont be as cumbersome?  

Are you looking for laser or inkjet? Inkjets will be more compact but then you'll have to deal with using ink which... yea all manufacturers are scumbags when it comes to that. Not sure if the Epson Ecotank locks people out when they don't use OEM supplies. In theory, because it's a tank and not a cartridge, I can't see how they would enforce any of that dystopian DRM on a printer. 

[RollyShed]

Your question says, "How big is my sack of bricks?" and doesn't tell us how many "bricks".

 

Probably to down-size a laser printer that does everything is get a smaller laser printer that only printers and "chuck-it" inkjet printer (an inkjet that has stopped working as a printer) that has a scanner. You have now split the size into two parts. That's what we've done for a long time.

 

The advantage of a laser printer is if not used for a long time, it prints. If it is an inkjet, it has to clean the jets and uses all of the ink just doing that. A laser cartridge might cost a little more but print 1000 more pages.

 

The disadvantage is a laser will be bigger.

[thrasher_565]

you need a bublejet printer from like the 90's with sas...

[Sant_HH]

5 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Are you looking for laser or inkjet? Inkjets will be more compact but then you'll have to deal with using ink which... yea all manufacturers are scumbags when it comes to that. Not sure if the Epson Ecotank locks people out when they don't use OEM supplies. In theory, because it's a tank and not a cartridge, I can't see how they would enforce any of that dystopian DRM on a printer. 

You could use any ink you want. You do need to print in color regularly otherwise, the heads will get clogged. The only annoying thing with them is having to use either paid or software from random websites, to reset the waste ink pad counter after a certain number of pages have been printed.