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Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims

Pete Sdev Bronze badge

Very bad from Canon, though I suspect they're not the only ones.

I'd be curious to whether it's intentional in which case the programmer should have their keyboard licence revoked as well as a cattle prod for the PHB, or it's a case of lazy programming.

People should be aware that cheap home printers are subsidised by future ink sales.

Actually, my personal experience of my cheap home Canon printer+scanner has actually been good (though I've never tried to scan with no ink) . The Canon printers I've used have all worked trivially with Linux too. YMMV

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