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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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The answer is simple, stop buying new printers that do this, keep your old one or buy a used one. Hurt them in their profits.
I think it's time to attempt some regulation. Probably won't happen but I don't see any other real, long term solution to this issue.
Okay but, we don't do that around here. And when we do, we don't enforce it.
This works until all the OEM's jump on the malicious malfunction gravy train.
I haven't owned a printer in more than a decade and even that was laser. I go to a local office supply place on the rare occasions that I need to print a page.
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.
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.
I would but the fucking things break and can't be fixed