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[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because they've become kinda the standard and people don't know any better; I may be wrong, but for the average user there's the 'printer' which uses ink, and thern there's the copier which uses toner. About them "always been kind of awful".. I dunno, looking back it was harder for them to clog, they were cheap and simple; then they started the race to the smallest nozzles, realized they could upcharge the ink 1000x.. and here we are.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, my laser printer jammed once in >10 years of ownership, and it's because the paper was loaded weird. My parents' inkjet jammed all the time as a kid, so much so that we ended up replacing it with another when my mom started working from home, and it still sometimes jammed.

Maybe things got way better since I was a kid, but inkjets always kinda sucked.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's just a problem of the feeding mechanism. Laser can do that just as much. It may just be dirty, something may be broken, or it was just terribly designed.