Printers....oh printers...why do you all still suck

[79wjd]

So, I truly hate printers. I've used all levels from enterprise grade to consumer grade and they always have been shit. For whatever reason, no company wants to make a solid and reliable printer. But that's the topic for another discussion..... Right now, I want to know why it is that documents seem to fail to print and get stuck in a print queue and why usually when that happens you can't simply delete the stuck document from the queue without restarting the printer service. 

[NumLock21]

Maybe you're giving off some bad aura everything when you're near a printer, and the printer spirit don't like that so, it decides to mess with you, every time you want to print.

 

[CommanderAlex]

4 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

So, I truly hate printers. I've used all levels from enterprise grade to consumer grade and they always have been shit. For whatever reason, no company wants to make a solid and reliable printer. But that's the topic for another discussion..... Right now, I want to know why it is that documents seem to fail to print and get stuck in a print queue and why usually when that happens you can't simply delete the stuck document from the queue without restarting the printer service. 

I get this A LOT with my printer at home. It sucks so much to the point that when I don't use the printer for a long time, the printer shows up as offline and clearly the printer is on the network. Only fix I found was to forget the printer and reconfigure it with my computer/s. Screw EPSON. 

 

I believe the issue is with it being a Wi-Fi router connection and not a hard-wired connection. 

[79wjd]

2 minutes ago, Fooshi said:

Toss it away and get a Brother or Samsung laser. Probably the most reliable consumer grade printers out there.

 

As for the problem itself, that sounds like a Windows problem. Tried wiping the drivers and reinstalling them?

I've used other printers in the past and I've experienced the same issue on them as well. It's not exclusively an issue with this printer nor is it exclusively an issue with the computer as it's an issue that I've seen/had on multiple computers running multiple OS's over the last fifteen years. I'm not really looking for a solution as I know it's because printers still suck, but I really want to know why printing a simple document causes so much trouble and why even in 2017 printers are still garbage. 

 

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Maybe you're giving off some bad aura everything when you're near a printer, and the printer spirit don't like that so, it decides to mess with you, every time you want to print.

I'd agree with that, if the world as a whole didn't consider printers crap. 

 

2 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

I get this A LOT with my printer at home. It sucks so much to the point that when I don't use the printer for a long time, the printer shows up as offline and clearly the printer is on the network. Only fix I found was to forget the printer and reconfigure it with my computer/s. Screw EPSON. 

 

I believe the issue is with it being a Wi-Fi router connection and not a hard-wired connection. 

Oh god, Epson. They make worse printers than HP does laptops. I've had this same issue with ethernet, USB, and wifi based printers. 

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

 

I'd agree with that, if the world as a whole didn't consider printers crap.

I've used all kinds of printers from crappy ones, thermal, color laser and one that print on cakes. Print something and it prints. Only minor issue sometimes is just dirty ink or print head, a quick clean or replacement and it's good to go.

Your constant, great "print isn't going to work" bad aura is your problem.

[Monkey Dust]

I can't help with your problem. But when I decided I didn't need a home printer any more, launching my last one into the skip at the recycling centre felt so fucking good.

[SCHISCHKA]

printer queue is not just done bad in windows, its done poorly in every OS. theres a difference between a job waiting to be sent to printer and a job queued on the printer. once its been sent to the printer you pretty much have to walk over to the printer and cancel it there