Yes, computer printers.
I like to print things. It’s much easier to process and enjoy the information and have a copy for later, than to watch a video, and I don’t have time to sit through 3 hours.
I like to read hard copies. I can’t afford to buy every single book I want though.
So I have printed maybe 10 or so various books.
Sometimes I make my own anthologies.
My Printer (Canon Pixma G6020) got an error code yesterday while trying to clean it after printing a book I don’t feel like purchasing. It has to do with their internal ink management. My printer is now unusable and it’s only been like maybe 2 years.
Therefore.
Why Canon sucks, the printer company.
They don’t let you reset the waste ink absorber/sponge counter yourself.
They can even lock the Service mode from being accessed by you. I tried all the buttons.
They don’t appear to want to service models with this sponge anymore, as it’s too difficult
In reading other’s frustrations, you have a perfectly good printer, you simply have a waste sponge that is full of all the excess ink from the cleanings/ink flushes.
You wouldn’t have to do the ink flushes in the first place if the little tubes didn’t keep getting clogged. And I print plenty.
So they have a waste-based (no pun intended) environmentally-unfriendly series of product lines that they don’t want to service anymore , They want you to toss it and then call them to get a new printer at a discount, because yours is out of warranty.
And in reading other’s comments, they don’t officially support the waste sponge replacement anymore, people had to buy third party and perform operations themselves, which is way too much.
All for a stupid little sponge.
I can only hope that this lack of support is actually a positive side on their end, that they now only produce printers which can be easily serviced instead of tossed.
PS Amazon said we purchased the printer May 15, 2020.
So it lasted 6 years not 2…
But still really shitty system.
Time just flies.
$270 with shipping and tax / 6 years = $45 a year it cost us for the machine. Ink was cheap and so was paper.
But very cloggy system
And one faulty or full part and now they dont want to deal with it?
Very irresponsible!
I have one heavy paperweight. ha ha.
