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No ink, no scan: Canon USA printers hit with class-action suit
- genmud 5y agoI feel like inkjet printers have some of the most anti-consumer practices aside from maybe payday loans. It almost feels like lawyers don't want to do anything related to technology and ones that do have had some spectacular failures, setting really bad precedent.
- munk-a 5y agoAlthough I would mention that I'd expect the litigious class to be some of the most highly impacted by the bizarre pricing practices of printers. Physical copies of legal documents are still often used for review and agreement even if those documents include 150 pages of boilerplate term definitions.
- kfprt 5y agoLawyers are smart enough not to trust computers.
- uselesscynicism 5y agoLegal documents printed by law firms are printed in black and white with laser printers, so the litigious class is shielded from the predatory practices that consumers put up with when buying color inkjet printers
- gruez 5y agoDo lawyers that print off dozens of sheets per day even use inkjet printers? Most of the scummy behavior revolve around inkjet printers, and I bet most would have switched to laser because of its cost-effectiveness. This seems to be confirmed in my limited sample of office printers. I've yet seen an office that used an inkjet printer.
- hoppyhoppy2 5y agoSee also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28888214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28888214 (2 days ago)
- dang 5y agoThanks! Macroexpanded: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28888214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28888214 - Oct 2021 (462 comments)
- bserge 5y ago> their all-in-one printers do require ink to scan, and they've been doing it since at least 2016 Oh they've been doing that for over a decade. People just sort of... put up with it.
- pugworthy 5y agoConsider that as more and more materials come online and smaller hand held platforms (tablets, phones) serve as convenient references, people print less and less. If printing is a commonplace occurrence, people would rarely run into the ink/scan tie. As they print less, they run into it more. You can also assume that print companies have been concerned about a decline in print relevance and the impact it would have on their business. So putting in place these kinds of policies may have been a response to this.