I have a brother laser Printer which I use via IPP from my network. It can hold a bunch of pages in RAM and Print them once the other (it can Print 3 in a row) are finished.

Now what does any propriatery printing service do?

They feed ONE PAGE AT A TIME, so my printer starts printing, then it starts cooling off, but then it has to HEAT UP AGAIN FOR FUCKS SAKE, and that every time.

Also if I just print via CUPS from my Linux machine, its like 5 times faster.

And I just don’t understand how my 15€ thin client from over 20 years ago can do more and better than my 1200€ iPad.

Just a reminder why I keep using Linux.

    • 51dusty@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      big ol dookie on Canon…💩💩💩

      one of the worst technology purchases I ever made.

      I bought the laser brother for scan and documents, which is awesome.

      but I needed something for photos… found this “highly rated” Canon photo only printer… hot garbage.