Consumer Grade Equipment

You cannot use consumer grade equipment to do professional work. I had a cohort who was dismayed that my PDF files would not print to fit the frame they were to occupy even though the dimensions of the file were to spec.

Then I printed the file on professional grade equipment and like magic, all problems abated.

The problem with consumer grade equipment is usually the software written for them.

HP is notorious for screwing up a perfectly good piece of hardware with software written by a baboon.

In that realm which is "professional output" the production elements are essential to the final product.

Like "garbage in garbage out" junky equipment designed for a consumer who needs the scaling and other disfunctional crap they build into these 30 dollar printers that require 150 dollars worth of ink every 3 months to operate are getting precisely what they paid for.

I suppose the crux of the issue lay in how easy you are to please. I have discriminating tastes and can be quite demanding. Others, not so much.