Comment on Canon is getting away with printers that won’t scan sans ink — but HP might pay

EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think it’s time to attempt some regulation. Probably won’t happen but I don’t see any real, long term solution to this issue.

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• RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This works until all the OEM’s jump on the malicious malfunction gravy train.

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• protput@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I read this so often that this is the solution and I hate it. This is definitely not the answer. The majority of people just see a cheap printer and buy it without being informed about the long term costs. If you just stop buying without speaking up, they still get tons of sales of the uninformed and will keep trying to find other ways to get the most money out of them.

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• newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I agree with you, but have you owned a consumer printer? They break so freaking fast. When I had them, I don’t think I’ve ever had a printer last more than 3 years. Granted I haven’t owned a printer in 15 years, but prior to that I swear we had to replace those damn things like clock work every couple of years for some stupid reason.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would but the fucking things break and can’t be fixed

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