Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

Post by WarOnPrivacy » Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 5:28 PM UTC

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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 inconvenien…

> someone apparently decided consumers would tolerate the inconvenience of no filtered water What kind of person makes decisions like this? When handed a good product, who decides to make it worse on purpose?

Post by hdjjhhvvhga » Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC

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Someone needs to make a QAnon post about the scam, then it'd be over for ink jets /s

Meh. Knowing about “the scam” is not enough to avoid it. People already know ink cartridges are expensive. To get a good deal you have to calculate TCO which requires understanding consumable prices, yields, and print volumes, and doing the math to figure out all of your options. Being mad is easy. Being analytical requires work.

Post by throwaway2016a » Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

jader201 wrote: post #146

alerighi wrote: post #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 mo…

I got my first printer in high school, around 90-91. It was an HP laserjet printer, when they were first going mainstream. I loved it, it always printed well, and the toner seemed to last forever. Of course, it was B/W, but that was all I needed. Fast forward to today, I have never owned an inkjet printer. Over the past 30 years I’ve owned a total of 3 laser printers. The second was in 2005, because I wanted a scanne…

Post by discreditable » Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 5:34 PM UTC

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I do not understand how the other printer brands are even in business when Brother is an option. I feel like their reputation for being the best in the consumer space would have spread far and wide by now. I have been able to scan all of my documents with their MFC line directly to my Dropbox (or box or drive or onedrive) account for over 6 years now, AND Brother Web Connect automatically OCR’s them.

Isn't Brother agressive in it's constant unclearable warnings about using generic toner?

Post by tgsovlerkhgsel » Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

throwaway2016a wrote: post #185

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I got my first printer in high school, around 90-91. It was an HP laserjet printer, when they were first going mainstream. I loved it, it always printed well, and the toner seemed to last forever. Of course, it was B/W, but that was all I needed. Fast forward to today, I have never owned an inkjet printer. Over the past 30 years I’ve owned a total of 3 laser printers. The second was in 2005, because I wanted a scanne…

I bought an HP color LaserJet in college because my inkjet printers needed constant head cleaning and took forever. 18 years later, still works great and I've only changed the black toner once and never changed the color. Of course the printer itself costs the same as 5 inkjets and when the toner does need replacing... ouch.