On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:18:23 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 01:54:19 +0100, ? Good Guy ?
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All printers are the same. If your current printer is giving you
problems then there is no guarantee new printer won't give you the same
problems.

Not true. Although one poster in this (I think) thread has had one go
peculiar on him, laser printers are pretty reliable for the light user
(and cheap and small if you don't want colour); my blind friends have
one they got I think a couple of years ago (obviously they only print
for the odd coupon or official letter), and are very happy with it.
(Still on the toner cartridge it came with.) It's wireless too which
makes it easy for both to use it - Brother 1212W I think it is.

(Dot-matrix - or rather impact - excellent too, and XP drivers are still
available. Mostly parallel port only though, which if your machine is a
laptop you may not have.)

Six miles to the nearest library to find the dowagers that run the
place won't let anyone plug a USB drive into their computers. The

You _could_ put what you want to print - as .pdf files ("print" to .pdf
from whatever, I use pdf995) - online somewhere before you go to the
library, and remove them after you've been. (Inside password-protected
.zip files, if the library has a means to open those.)

next nearest is 37 miles. My bank let me make a copy but I can't
think they'd do it on any irregular basis.

We have a UPS store they may do something like that.

No harm in asking. No copy shop, internet café, or anything similar?
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I'd still say a small mono laser would do you best, though. And/or, if
you really go months between prints and only do a few then: use your
colour inkjet once a week or once a month (whichever turns out to be
necessary to keep it working); set the computer to remind you to do so.
At first I thought just print some blocks of solid colour, but then I
thought, you might as well print out some nice picture, either for
yourself or to give away to family and/or friends. OK, if it uses $1
worth of ink a time (let it do it at highest quality - so it might take
many minutes, who cares) - still cheaper than the alternatives, plus
you'd have the nice picture. Or, something more boring but that it'd be
useful to have a hard copy of - tide tables, refuse collection
schedules, local (or club, association, whatever) event calendars - I am
sure you can think of _something_. (Mono laser printers usually about 50
pounds, though I think I may have seen as low as 30; probably the same
in $ [i. e. 50 or less] there.)

Most of the kinds of places that have copiers printers etc., are 30
miles from me. AND it isn't too practical if I've got an engineering
project and want a neat paper schematic to work from, to stop what I'm
doing and (only) drive 6 miles or more and drive back That takes
time. Unproductive time. Not conducive to staying focused either. I
have to keep the brain cells on-task and not let them wander.

If I'm going to do all that I might just as well dick around with the
cartridge and get it working.

And, this HP printer refuses to print if the color cartridge is having
problems even if I don't want color.

Then there's the "creative process." Changes get made, get penciled
in or red-lined, and the drawing no longer reflects the device as
built.

I'll mess around with the cheap Brother printer when it comes, I can
always get something else if it doesn't do what I want. I may even
have to get my wife something. She has the problem of an operating
system that doesn't have drivers for her old HP printer.
I need a printer, not too often but I do need one.