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Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

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Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

#11
For some reason I enabled the ‘auto refill’ on my new canon printer because that is what our office did (somehow).

Don’t do that: it kept making purchases because it didn’t receive the ink as fast as it expected due to supply chain issues. It took a long time for Canon to cancel the orders that had never left the factory and give our hundreds of dollars back.

It’s a fun story at least!

Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

#12

To me it is a reminder that all cornerstones of society are entangled in this battle for rights and freedoms, others include Sideloading on iOS, alternative app stores etc Farmers getting access to diagnostics for their tractors Not having to buy subscription-ink (looking at HP here...) Standardized charging systems (USB-C) over proprietary cables like Lightning. Amazon fighting the definition of a library - they mos…

Aren't those all problems that need legal remedies first and foremost? I'm not sure if most people here are in the relevant professions.

Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

#14

My HP inkjet will not print any color or black if the “photo black” cartridge is removed. I consider this a similar “greed move” by HP.

The water dispenser on my fridge stops working if it decides the filter needs to be replaced. I get about ten days between the “new filter” light and when it stops working with the beeping and blinking getting progressively more annoying. Oddly enough the ice dispenser (which also uses the filter) continues to function. So it’s not a safety issue and someone apparently decided consumers would tolerate the inconvenience of no filtered water but not the inconvenience of no ice.

It’s a slight improvement over my last fridge which used DRM to make sure I only used their (way more expensive) branded filters.

Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

#17

Do Canon printers in the EU have this problem? I would think customers would be able to return them as defective.

At one point, Canon was the good pupil of printers-scanners, worked for 12 years, cheap at purchase, ink expensive like everywhere else, driver for CUPS (Linux) and not much call-home in Mac drivers.

I’m sad if Canon reverted its game for anti-buyer shenanigans.

Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

#18
I stopped buying inkjet printers. They are a scam, the ink costs a fortune and they are built as cheap as they can, meaning that they will break and you have to throw them away because they are impossible to repair, they are slow and when you need them they don't work because they were not used for too much time.

After having 5 broken printers in the garage I said enough, that is a useless waste, and invested some money in a mid range laser printer (only b/w, but I don't need to print in color anyway) that doesn't give me any problem, and with a toner that costs 10$ on Amazon (not original, but who cares?) I print 2000 pages. That means that in 5 years that I own it I only changed it 2 times.

I really don't see a reason for inkjet printers to exist, I hope they will disappear from the market.

Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

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I stopped buying inkjet printers. They are a scam, the ink costs a fortune and they are built as cheap as they can, meaning that they will break and you have to throw them away because they are impossible to repair, they are slow and when you need them they don't work because they were not used for too much time. After having 5 broken printers in the garage I said enough, that is a useless waste, and invested some mo…

The exception is if you print photos. There’s not really a good alternative to inkjet, except RA-4, which is out of reach for consumers.
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