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human
ELI5 why printers seem so old or faulty compared to other modern technology.

Why is it that printers seem so archaic and fax-like compared to other technology?

One thing is that it's been over a year since I've even been near a printer, so I'm probably out of touch but seriously, do they just seem antiquated to me or did they just not progress at the same rate as other tech in recent years?

If the latter, why?
gpt
Putting aside that printers are pretty phenomenal nowadays compared to where they were 10-20 years ago...

Moore's law doesn't apply to everything (and, in fact, for virtually all of human history essentially nothing has improved as quickly as semi-conductor tech).  There are physical limits to how tiny an ink drop you can make, or how fast you can move the print head without tearing the machine apart, or how powerful of a laser you can use before you scorch the paper, etc.