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Enshittification- “the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.”
We have witnessed this word in action as we talk about printer technology and quality. Printer quality is something that has been sliding in the past decade as companies try to cut costs by using cheaper and cheaper components. For many printer brands this has caused a significant dip in quality. Printers from HP and Xerox that used to be solid 10. 20, and 30 years ago have been caught replacing metal parts with plastic ones resulting in new failure modes especially in things like gears that may be used in the paper feed mechanism. We have had quite a few Xerox printers fail in rooms where the ambient temperature of the room was 80-90 degree F since someone decided the AC didn't need to be on since there was no one in the room most of the time. The high warm temperatures. The plastic gears soften and cause the teeth to be stripped during use. Once the gears are stripped the printers no longer function properly since they can no longer advance the paper through the system. We have also had HP printers fail with bad control or networking boards causing the printers to be unusable.
The only desktop printer brand that we have had pretty good consistent multi-year success and reliability with is Brother. Having said this, users are free to choose any brand they are comfortable with. No one is required to use or feel they have to use any brand or model we recommend. We absolutely DO recommend buyers ALWAYS check the user reviews on Amazon to make sure the printer meets their needs and make note of any unusual reported failure modes and to make sure those failure conditions are not or cannot be reproduced in the local computing environment.
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Xerox Workcentre 7845 Multi Function Printer (~$8000-$21000 depending on installed options) Very similar to the Toshiba but the admin panel and web access admin software has a lot more options including firewall and file encryption.
COPYTECH: For areas looking to rent or own high performance standing multifunction printers, we would recommend contacting MIT CopyTech to get the best information and offers available.
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