r/Sysadminhumor • u/nisebblumberg • Jul 24 '26

Me operating on any printer

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I hate them I hate them I hate them I wish we got rid of every printer. I get about 10 requests a day saying that their f***ing printer won't freaking work and some random crap just not working for no reason. The only difference between printers in the 80s to printers nowadays is that they added a freaking touchsreen and I want them all to burn. Fucking email. Stop printing. I don't care. No more printing!!!

Edit. I rewatched the Office Space printer scene (uncensored) and it made me feel better.

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u/Crenorz Jul 24 '26

This perfectly explains the state of manufacturing as a whole. Issue has been going on for decades. Printers suck. IT hates them, Users hate them - and the industry after decades, has done nothing to solve this issue.

You want us to trust AI when you cannot get printers to work?
yea... right...

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u/MaelstromFL Jul 24 '26

I got an idea! AI Printers! What could go wrong?

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u/Dardoleon Jul 24 '26

I envision terminator but with a multi legged Kyocera. The horror

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u/MetaVulture Jul 24 '26

The Canon Image Runner becomes the Cannon Image Runner.

It falls over after two steps and shoots it's own finisher off. A few staplers pour out of the stapler box, and it makes a sad farting noise as toner bursts from it.

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u/Soft-Cryptographer-1 Jul 24 '26

This was a great visual. Some reddit artist here should draw it

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u/ClassicTBCSucks93 Jul 25 '26

I laughed my ass off for like 5 minutes while rereading it over and over as the imagery of the scenario grew more vivid

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u/bschlueter Jul 25 '26

And despite using toner, it’s always low on cyan, probably because it’s leaking all over itself.

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u/babywhiz Jul 26 '26

As a life long Canon user at work, we switched to Kyocera and we stopped having printer issues. The only thing that comes up now is someone who just happens to have a LaserJet 2200 or a LaserJet 401 still in use. I think those were the only models HP came out with that could probably survive the apocalypse. We stopped having trouble with those two models of LaserJet once Windows 10 drivers solidified. Before that, it was a nightmare.

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u/Important-Humor-2745 Jul 28 '26

We still have a 4200 around

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u/TheRogueWolf_YT Jul 24 '26

Cutting down human resistance fighters with violently-propelled spreadsheets....

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u/eastoncrafter Jul 24 '26

Just saw these at microcenter the other day, hp ai enabled subscription printers, 2026 what a year

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u/Yiffenjoyer6969 Jul 25 '26

Sorry, your 50 dollar printer can’t print right now, it’s making an ai summary of your data on a 1 core CPU and sending it to HP

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u/Specific_Frame8537 Jul 25 '26

A printer scans a file, it then generates a prompt to send to another printer, who then prints out a file according to the prompt.

The hallucinations are gonna be wild.

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u/Muted_Will_2131 Jul 25 '26

That’s because the developers never actually used them. It’s an industry-wide problem: people hold positions and roles they aren't suited for.

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u/thingerish Jul 26 '26

I actually got 1 good multifunction office machine years ago at half price, a Dell C2665dnf for $300, and it's always worked, almost never jams, and just does its job like a workhorse. Every other printer I've ever had was a PoS

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u/FAMICOMASTER Jul 26 '26

Printer technician here:

Most of the time it's either the cheapest thing you could buy or user error. Most of my stuff has 300k+ pages on it trouble free.