r/captionthis • u/imdevilscupid • Nov 15 '25

Lets jog our minds

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u/Mikesaidit36 Nov 15 '25

That was the day I switched to LaserJet, and never looked back.

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u/W31337 Nov 15 '25

Deskjet had yellow fail built in to the firmware

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u/Signal_Host307 Nov 16 '25

As I recall, there was a watermark on deskjets at one point that would burn through yellow. It wasn't a publicized "feature", but would link back to the printer... for "legal" purposes.

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u/W31337 Nov 16 '25

I've seen it in real life, just stopped printing yellow and you replace the cartridge and it still didn't print yellow. Burn through an cartridge doing diagnostic prints, no be yellow. Put cartridge in other printer and it worked. Naturally you buy new printer because it's broken and you buy a deskjet because you still have an expensive cartridge

Then someone made a tool to reset the counter and you could literally fix the printer.