Printers As Fast As Possible 

I have yet to meet anyone who had a flawless experience with an inkjet printer.

How do printers work? simple: they don't

You forgot to mention that printers smell fear.

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.

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.

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.

My HP printer thinks it's funny to download software updates EVERY FRICKIN TIME I PRINT SOMETHING.

My printers great, it will print half of one page then spit the other half out blank...

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

Those Epson EcoTank printer spit out a shit ton of that ink into the “maintenance box” for “cleaning the printer heads”

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.

"PC Load Letter", the fuck does that mean?!

So in short, get a laser printer. They just work.

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?

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

back when our biggest concern was the inability to print with our inkjet printer.

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!

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.

this linus is everywhere wtf

I'm that dot matrix guy - 1987 still rules my printing world! Really cheap to run too

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.

Ohhhh printers. Sigh.

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...

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!

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?

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.

1% actual printing 99% crash bandicoot sound effects

video suggestion: SCANNER. what they are, how they work and how to use them?

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 "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 like the lighting in this video, it's good

Dye-sublimation is another printer type that is popular too!

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.

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.

+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).

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

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

0:56 I was expecting him to say "But let's look at them in a little bit more depth. Color Depth!"

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!)

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!

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.

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 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.

a small loan of a million dollars $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Ink cartridges always dry up even though you're not using them. A couple of years ago I bought a laser printer (a HP 150NW) and I'm never going back to inkjets. Toner never dries up. You can leave your laser printer alone for a year and all the toner will still be there. No more white lines, no smears, no clogged printheads.

Good video man! I learned something today!

4k in 2015? linus making bank

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.

0:40, we have one of those!

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.

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.

I love this guy! Not only is he informative (quickly), he's entertaining and cute. All the better to learn by. LOL.

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.

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.

From everything I'm reading, watching and listening to about ink cartridges, this seems like the biggest, most unimaginably corrupt scam on Earth! It sounds like the crooks who have a monopoly on ripping customers off with this ink sham, would probably MURDER anyone who tried to start a legitimately priced, ink cartridge business! This is worse than the oil and gas companies!! Really!! If gas and oil cost as much, by volume as this ink does, it would cost about a half a million dollars to gas up your car or heat your house for a week!! This is disgusting!! What a RACKET!!

It is a nice and useful video. Starink toner cartridge- start different.

3:56 HP has then in Canada at around $500.00

there is a linus ad on this linus video. amazing

I thought there were some kind of laws protecting us from companies making devices we buy stop working on purpose, but printers have shown that there clearly is not.

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.........

holy shit! a sponsor spot that actually makes sense!

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.

We need an open source project to 3D print and assemble affordable printers and ink cartridges

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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.

Lol I still use a 25 year old dot matrix.. I can re-ink the ribbon myself for like 15cents and its extremely reliable. I dont print photos so its never a problem

The laser thing is weird for me xD but it's nice tech

"cool right!??" Sounds like something Bill Nye would say in a kid's science show

1:03 Thanks Linus... Cracked my screen

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.

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.

*3:55* dude... That man was screaming like the SCP-096 damnnnn

brilliant quick and affective 👍🏾

Realizing this 7 months later, but wow; one quarter of this video is an advertisement.

Eminem explaining how printers work! Now I have seen everything in life.

ah, yes, a printer that works, one of the world strongest paradoxes.

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.

OOOOOOH!!! Linus's hand went in front of the pop up video suggestions rather than behind!

I swear you could directly hardwire a printer into a PC motherboard, ask it to print something and still absolutely nothing will happen

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".

Lol did anyone else notice this video has a problem at the start with the editing? :D Its not perfetly fit on the screen his positioning is of on the left side & bottom. Lol its cool to see a tech gaint make a mistake I sometimes but rarely do! :D

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.

I've always just bought new inkjet printers when they are out of ink and sell the old one on kijiji (Canada's Craigslist).

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.

Feels nothing different from the old one. Just using Today's Techquickie format.

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Did they ever make a video about the printer dots tracking codes and stuff?

Brick and mortar stores vs online. Are you getting the same quality?

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?

Does the type of screen influence if your are getting tired faster?

thank you linus, explained well 😁

Do more printer videos. This industry needs some proper calling out. And lawsuits.. lots of lawsuits.

Clear video, thanks

Inkjet printer manufacturers have such a sleazy business 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?

Great transition mate

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.

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.

How do printers work? SPOILER : they don't!

Just buy a black and white laser printer with an usb cable and inexpensive knock off toner cartridges, this way it actually works and you can keep your printing costs at about 1 cent/page.