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Why your printer sucks.
I was just listening to a podcast, in which the hosts were wondering why all printers are so terrible. (You know, as you do.) That made me re-read this truly wonderful New Yorker story on the subject, which offers as thorough an answer as you’ll ever find. It’s also just a great read:
In building-size paper mills, the fibre is sprayed onto rollers turning thirty-five miles per hour, which press it into fat cylinders of paper forty reams wide... When paper gets too wet, it liquefies; when it gets too dry, it crumbles to dust.
Why Paper Jams Persist
[The New Yorker]
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