#printer — Public Fediverse posts
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Two #print #printer woes/questions
I bought the Epson EcoTank. I love it, but I didn't think about the fact that I'm printing from #linux. The #debian driver works...OK at best.
A search revealed a third-party with a more fully-featured driver, but it's like $100 and closed source. Ugh.
Any other experiences?
And while we are on the topic of printing from #inkscape, I'm having trouble finding info on how multi-page documents work *for printing*.
I have 5 pages. Page 1 is 8.5x11, all the others are 4.25x5.5. The print dialog uses the "document properties" which doesn't seem to understand multi-page and only shows 8.5x11.
How can I print just page 4, for example, at the correct size of 4.25x5.5?
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A Status Screen For Bambu Labs Printers
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/05/17/a-status-screen-for-bambu-labs-printers/
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A Status Screen For Bambu Labs Printers
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/05/17/a-status-screen-for-bambu-labs-printers/
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Learn how different printer types for office use match daily business needs, printing volume, cost efficiency, and workplace productivity.
https://itstechfy.blogspot.com/2026/05/how-different-printer-types-fit-everyday-office-needs.html
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Find the best office printer for business productivity with tips on speed, cost efficiency, workflow support, and reliability.
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Open Printer
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade. -
Fixed my printer. The print heads for the cyan was not 100%, so I flushed them. A bit messy but did the trick. A faulty cartridge had blocked some of them #printer
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#askfedi #printer #print is there such a thing as a good printer on the market for home / small business use?
Inkjet or Laserjet is fine, monochrome is fine. It has to have a scanner with an ADF.Other than that, we don't need a lot - reliability and longevity.
Repairability is probably a pipe dream, right?
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Video on extracting a stuck toner cartidge from a #Brother HL-2270 #printer. (The problem was a snapped clip on a lever, but you can move it by hand).
I'm glad to get this back in service. I can't remember when we got it (~2010?), but it's as least so old that the URL on the sticker inside starts with "http://".
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Video on extracting a stuck toner cartidge from a #Brother HL-2270 #printer. (The problem was a snapped clip on a lever, but you can move it by hand).
I'm glad to get this back in service. I can't remember when we got it (~2010?), but it's as least so old that the URL on the sticker inside starts with "http://".
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Video on extracting a stuck toner cartidge from a #Brother HL-2270 #printer. (The problem was a snapped clip on a lever, but you can move it by hand).
I'm glad to get this back in service. I can't remember when we got it (~2010?), but it's as least so old that the URL on the sticker inside starts with "http://".
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Video on extracting a stuck toner cartidge from a #Brother HL-2270 #printer. (The problem was a snapped clip on a lever, but you can move it by hand).
I'm glad to get this back in service. I can't remember when we got it (~2010?), but it's as least so old that the URL on the sticker inside starts with "http://".
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Video on extracting a stuck toner cartidge from a #Brother HL-2270 #printer. (The problem was a snapped clip on a lever, but you can move it by hand).
I'm glad to get this back in service. I can't remember when we got it (~2010?), but it's as least so old that the URL on the sticker inside starts with "http://".
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Those pesky printers!
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Dieser vermaledeite Drucker! -
Those pesky printers!
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Dieser vermaledeite Drucker! -
Anyone need help setting up their SPARCprinter? #sunmicrosystems #sparc #printer #ephemera
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Anyone need help setting up their SPARCprinter? #sunmicrosystems #sparc #printer #ephemera
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Anyone need help setting up their SPARCprinter? #sunmicrosystems #sparc #printer #ephemera
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Anyone need help setting up their SPARCprinter? #sunmicrosystems #sparc #printer #ephemera
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Today I came across a weird #printer problem. From #Debian #Linux I could print to the #Canon PIXMA printer in simplex or #duplex.
BUT, in duplex mode it would print a side, eject the paper, re-load the paper, then eject it again without printing anything on it, and then start the second page on a separate sheet of paper.
This happened from my PC and a separate one using the stock #IPP driver in #CUPS
Annoyingly it works perfectly in Windows...
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Today I came across a weird #printer problem. From #Debian #Linux I could print to the #Canon PIXMA printer in simplex or #duplex.
BUT, in duplex mode it would print a side, eject the paper, re-load the paper, then eject it again without printing anything on it, and then start the second page on a separate sheet of paper.
This happened from my PC and a separate one using the stock #IPP driver in #CUPS
Annoyingly it works perfectly in Windows...
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Today I came across a weird #printer problem. From #Debian #Linux I could print to the #Canon PIXMA printer in simplex or #duplex.
BUT, in duplex mode it would print a side, eject the paper, re-load the paper, then eject it again without printing anything on it, and then start the second page on a separate sheet of paper.
This happened from my PC and a separate one using the stock #IPP driver in #CUPS
Annoyingly it works perfectly in Windows...
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Today I came across a weird #printer problem. From #Debian #Linux I could print to the #Canon PIXMA printer in simplex or #duplex.
BUT, in duplex mode it would print a side, eject the paper, re-load the paper, then eject it again without printing anything on it, and then start the second page on a separate sheet of paper.
This happened from my PC and a separate one using the stock #IPP driver in #CUPS
Annoyingly it works perfectly in Windows...
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Today I came across a weird #printer problem. From #Debian #Linux I could print to the #Canon PIXMA printer in simplex or #duplex.
BUT, in duplex mode it would print a side, eject the paper, re-load the paper, then eject it again without printing anything on it, and then start the second page on a separate sheet of paper.
This happened from my PC and a separate one using the stock #IPP driver in #CUPS
Annoyingly it works perfectly in Windows...
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#PrintingPress #Press #Machine #Ink #Mechanism #YouTube #Video #Historical #History #Printer #PrintingMachine #Machine #Machines #Technology What a fantastic machine, and in many respects it’s one of the most important ever created…
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#PrintingPress #Press #Machine #Ink #Mechanism #YouTube #Video #Historical #History #Printer #PrintingMachine #Machine #Machines #Technology What a fantastic machine, and in many respects it’s one of the most important ever created…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tf0frWnRvT8 -
#PrintingPress #Press #Machine #Ink #Mechanism #YouTube #Video #Historical #History #Printer #PrintingMachine #Machine #Machines #Technology What a fantastic machine, and in many respects it’s one of the most important ever created…
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#PrintingPress #Press #Machine #Ink #Mechanism #YouTube #Video #Historical #History #Printer #PrintingMachine #Machine #Machines #Technology What a fantastic machine, and in many respects it’s one of the most important ever created…
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#PrintingPress #Press #Machine #Ink #Mechanism #YouTube #Video #Historical #History #Printer #PrintingMachine #Machine #Machines #Technology What a fantastic machine, and in many respects it’s one of the most important ever created…
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#Inkjet #cartridges suck and should be banned! Finally got some more paper for my #printer today but then the #cyan cartridge runs out of #ink, so I put in a new cartridge and guess what? The new one doesn’t work at all despite the printer saying the cartridge is full of ink. Like, I tried everything to fix it including reinserting the cartridge, doing the #nozzle check, cleaning the heads, performing a head realignment, restarting the printer, updating the #firmware, printing a cyan purge test page, none of that worked. The last two options I can think of are
1. Try using an official #Epson cartridge, since we’ve been using aftermarket cartridges for a while since the official ones are way #overpriced, but the aftermarket ones have been working fine up until now and if it doesn’t work, then that’s money on an #expensive Epson cartridge wasted.
Or
2. Just get rid of this #capitalist cartridge printer and buy a #tank one, because I’m done with printer companies locking us into #proprietary cartridges. I wanna be able to use whatever ink we buy without having crappy #DRM. Plus this printer is now 10 years old anyways, it’s lasted surprisingly long and has outlasted very other printer we had, but this problem as well as the constant need to realign the heads to stop lines from going through the ink are signs it’s time to upgrade to a tank printer.I hope one day the governments of the world ban inkjet cartridges, because they are horrible for the #environment and are just here to keep prices up.
Pics attached of the #nozzles in case anyone can see what’s gone wrong, but I highly doubt there is anything that can be seen.
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#Inkjet #cartridges suck and should be banned! Finally got some more paper for my #printer today but then the #cyan cartridge runs out of #ink, so I put in a new cartridge and guess what? The new one doesn’t work at all despite the printer saying the cartridge is full of ink. Like, I tried everything to fix it including reinserting the cartridge, doing the #nozzle check, cleaning the heads, performing a head realignment, restarting the printer, updating the #firmware, printing a cyan purge test page, none of that worked. The last two options I can think of are
1. Try using an official #Epson cartridge, since we’ve been using aftermarket cartridges for a while since the official ones are way #overpriced, but the aftermarket ones have been working fine up until now and if it doesn’t work, then that’s money on an #expensive Epson cartridge wasted.
Or
2. Just get rid of this #capitalist cartridge printer and buy a #tank one, because I’m done with printer companies locking us into #proprietary cartridges. I wanna be able to use whatever ink we buy without having crappy #DRM. Plus this printer is now 10 years old anyways, it’s lasted surprisingly long and has outlasted very other printer we had, but this problem as well as the constant need to realign the heads to stop lines from going through the ink are signs it’s time to upgrade to a tank printer.I hope one day the governments of the world ban inkjet cartridges, because they are horrible for the #environment and are just here to keep prices up.
Pics attached of the #nozzles in case anyone can see what’s gone wrong, but I highly doubt there is anything that can be seen.
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#Inkjet #cartridges suck and should be banned! Finally got some more paper for my #printer today but then the #cyan cartridge runs out of #ink, so I put in a new cartridge and guess what? The new one doesn’t work at all despite the printer saying the cartridge is full of ink. Like, I tried everything to fix it including reinserting the cartridge, doing the #nozzle check, cleaning the heads, performing a head realignment, restarting the printer, updating the #firmware, printing a cyan purge test page, none of that worked. The last two options I can think of are
1. Try using an official #Epson cartridge, since we’ve been using aftermarket cartridges for a while since the official ones are way #overpriced, but the aftermarket ones have been working fine up until now and if it doesn’t work, then that’s money on an #expensive Epson cartridge wasted.
Or
2. Just get rid of this #capitalist cartridge printer and buy a #tank one, because I’m done with printer companies locking us into #proprietary cartridges. I wanna be able to use whatever ink we buy without having crappy #DRM. Plus this printer is now 10 years old anyways, it’s lasted surprisingly long and has outlasted very other printer we had, but this problem as well as the constant need to realign the heads to stop lines from going through the ink are signs it’s time to upgrade to a tank printer.I hope one day the governments of the world ban inkjet cartridges, because they are horrible for the #environment and are just here to keep prices up.
Pics attached of the #nozzles in case anyone can see what’s gone wrong, but I highly doubt there is anything that can be seen.
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#Inkjet #cartridges suck and should be banned! Finally got some more paper for my #printer today but then the #cyan cartridge runs out of #ink, so I put in a new cartridge and guess what? The new one doesn’t work at all despite the printer saying the cartridge is full of ink. Like, I tried everything to fix it including reinserting the cartridge, doing the #nozzle check, cleaning the heads, performing a head realignment, restarting the printer, updating the #firmware, printing a cyan purge test page, none of that worked. The last two options I can think of are
1. Try using an official #Epson cartridge, since we’ve been using aftermarket cartridges for a while since the official ones are way #overpriced, but the aftermarket ones have been working fine up until now and if it doesn’t work, then that’s money on an #expensive Epson cartridge wasted.
Or
2. Just get rid of this #capitalist cartridge printer and buy a #tank one, because I’m done with printer companies locking us into #proprietary cartridges. I wanna be able to use whatever ink we buy without having crappy #DRM. Plus this printer is now 10 years old anyways, it’s lasted surprisingly long and has outlasted very other printer we had, but this problem as well as the constant need to realign the heads to stop lines from going through the ink are signs it’s time to upgrade to a tank printer.I hope one day the governments of the world ban inkjet cartridges, because they are horrible for the #environment and are just here to keep prices up.
Pics attached of the #nozzles in case anyone can see what’s gone wrong, but I highly doubt there is anything that can be seen.
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This fun #KodakInstantCamera and printer looks like a roll of film: https://zorz.it/AxsWX
#KateGaribaldi #analog #InstantFilm #camera #Kodak #RollOfFilm #thermal #equipment #printer
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This fun #KodakInstantCamera and printer looks like a roll of film: https://zorz.it/AxsWX
#KateGaribaldi #analog #InstantFilm #camera #Kodak #RollOfFilm #thermal #equipment #printer
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Network #Printing workflow:
1)Download #PDF2)Save PDF in the directory you want it to reside3)Open PDF in your favorite reader4)Hit Ctrl-P5)Wait for #Printer to show up6)Look at printer7)Wait8)Tap on printer's screen9)Wait10)Power off printer11)Wait12)Wait13)Wait14)Various imprecations...15)Power on printer16)Wait17)Wait18)Forget what you were doing and scroll #Fedi notifications19)Remember, and go back to your PDF reader program20)Hit Ctrl-P21)Wait22)Hit enter23)Wait24)Wait25)Whirrrrrrr...! -
Network #Printing workflow:
1)Download #PDF2)Save PDF in the directory you want it to reside3)Open PDF in your favorite reader4)Hit Ctrl-P5)Wait for #Printer to show up6)Look at printer7)Wait8)Tap on printer's screen9)Wait10)Power off printer11)Wait12)Wait13)Wait14)Various imprecations...15)Power on printer16)Wait17)Wait18)Forget what you were doing and scroll #Fedi notifications19)Remember, and go back to your PDF reader program20)Hit Ctrl-P21)Wait22)Hit enter23)Wait24)Wait25)Whirrrrrrr...! -
Network #Printing workflow:
1)Download #PDF2)Save PDF in the directory you want it to reside3)Open PDF in your favorite reader4)Hit Ctrl-P5)Wait for #Printer to show up6)Look at printer7)Wait8)Tap on printer's screen9)Wait10)Power off printer11)Wait12)Wait13)Wait14)Various imprecations...15)Power on printer16)Wait17)Wait18)Forget what you were doing and scroll #Fedi notifications19)Remember, and go back to your PDF reader program20)Hit Ctrl-P21)Wait22)Hit enter23)Wait24)Wait25)Whirrrrrrr...! -
Network #Printing workflow:
1)Download #PDF2)Save PDF in the directory you want it to reside3)Open PDF in your favorite reader4)Hit Ctrl-P5)Wait for #Printer to show up6)Look at printer7)Wait8)Tap on printer's screen9)Wait10)Power off printer11)Wait12)Wait13)Wait14)Various imprecations...15)Power on printer16)Wait17)Wait18)Forget what you were doing and scroll #Fedi notifications19)Remember, and go back to your PDF reader program20)Hit Ctrl-P21)Wait22)Hit enter23)Wait24)Wait25)Whirrrrrrr...! -
Network #Printing workflow:
1)Download #PDF2)Save PDF in the directory you want it to reside3)Open PDF in your favorite reader4)Hit Ctrl-P5)Wait for #Printer to show up6)Look at printer7)Wait8)Tap on printer's screen9)Wait10)Power off printer11)Wait12)Wait13)Wait14)Various imprecations...15)Power on printer16)Wait17)Wait18)Forget what you were doing and scroll #Fedi notifications19)Remember, and go back to your PDF reader program20)Hit Ctrl-P21)Wait22)Hit enter23)Wait24)Wait25)Whirrrrrrr...! -
How to Change & Lock Your Default Printer
Tired of your print jobs going to the wrong device? 😫 With this guide to stop Windows 11/10 from auto-switching your settings. Take back control with our easy, permanent fixes! 🛠️
#Windows11 #Technology #Izoate #Windows10 #Tech #Microsoft #printer
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We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]
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We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]
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We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]
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We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]
