I want to kill my printer.
I have come to believe that living inside the machine is a tiny demon whose sole purpose is to torture me with paper jams and failed wireless connections. When things are working, it chugs my $50 ink like it’s an open bar. So, yes, I repeatedly think about taking a baseball bat to the possessed plastic contraption.
That's the word from Joanna Stern who, ina piece for The Wall Street Journal, details her search for "a printer you won't want todestroy." Isn't it funny, asks Stern, that in an age when we have smartphones "in our pockets ... printers still seem to struggle at their single task." And this isn't just her stance – if thecommunity's postsare anything to go by, even the very talented SpiceHeads share the feeling of wanting to smash a Xerox with a baseball bat.
After spending a week of testing and...