Honestly for me the HP instant ink plan works quite well. The lowest tier is 99 cents a month and gets me 15 pages which are sufficient. Certain months I might go over my allotment but that’s not breaking the bank. Their cartridges run really long as well - haven’t needed a new one in 2 years.
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
#112I 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…
Careful with off-brand toner. The toner particles are often jagged rather than smooth, which can damage the fuser roller, requiring replacement. This happened to me after a few years of using off-brand toner. I was able to perform the repair myself, and granted the cost wasn't as much as buying on-brand toner, but it was challenging (lots of delicate parts) and I don't wish to repeat the experience.
Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
#113I 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…
Let's not throw the baby with the bathwater. Injket printers have advantages and can be cheap if we dismantle the highway robbery of inks. Just because inks are expensive does not mean that we should get rid of inkjet technology. > I really don't see a reason for inkjet printers to exist, I hope they will disappear from the market. Perhaps you should investigate why they exist. Seems too naive to wish for their disap…
I'll have to look into them. I've been using https://www.octoink.co.uk for my photo printing and they have been great.
The sad thing is that there aren't any good review sites.
Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I put a piece of black tape over the window on my Brother starter toner like 4 years ago. Print quality is still good enough for anything I print at home (which is obviously very little).
What does this do?
There's a sensor that checks the toner level. The tape tricks it into thinking the level passes instead of not passing.
I don't remember if it just stops the printer from complaining about the level, or if it refuses to print with a low level.
Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like something that would be pretty trivial to solve by a ever so slight application of advance planning?
Did you miss the part about kids?
Have two of them, youngest under 3, and a full time single parent. If you don’t plan ahead and direct them usefully, they’ll roll you hard (not out of malice, but because they’re kids) and everyone has a much tougher time.
Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I put a piece of black tape over the window on my Brother starter toner like 4 years ago. Print quality is still good enough for anything I print at home (which is obviously very little).
What does this do?
Hides the fill level from the optical sensor. They can be rather pessimistic about the quality of print that you'll get at lower levels.
Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s kind of a pain to go to the drug store at 9pm to Print your kids solar system project. Just saying
Sounds like something that would be pretty trivial to solve by a ever so slight application of advance planning?
Also true of black and white printing, but of course the whole point is that people like the convenience of being able to do their printing at home.
Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
#118We need an open source printer
Kragen is right that we need hackers working on building up our hardware capabilities in general. The free software movement started in an era of relatively open hardware when that seemed less of a priority.
Admittedly I haven't done anything myself, though I admire those who have.
Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's plenty of jurisdictions where "pasting a scanned signature into a pdf" doesn't produce a legally valid signature. Germany requires some signing software for pdfs - though printed-signed-scanned documents are also legally valid signatures
Show me someone who can tell the difference between pasting a signature in a pdf vs printed-signed-scanned? There was a legislature in America that tried to define pi as 3 so irrational laws are not surprising.
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Re: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
#120I'm increasingly getting irritated by the feeling that I don't actually own or control the hardware I purchase.
It's not just a feeling. You really don't own or control the hardware. It's controlled by the proprietary firmware running in the computer embedded in it. This firmware controlled by the corporation. It will prevent you from doing anything that harms their business interests.