Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Canon disables scanner when ink runs out; who owns your scanner?" video.

  1. I can recommend refillable cartridges if you can get em. Worth researching before you buy a printer. Mine report to the printer like the official ones but will "reset" if removed from the printer when indicating empty.
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  2. To be fair, I have an Epson that I use occasionally and when the ink dries in the nozzles, it's a pain to get them clear and I killed a set of cartridges trying to get it to come clean (used about 1/10 per clean). I've ended up buying a kit that lets you push cleaning fluid through the nozzles which is a lot cheaper. I keep meaning to set up a schedule to print something every couple of weeks but haven't got it set up yet. The real lesson is to avoid inkjets if possible. I have a cheap Brother B&W laser I use most of the time and it never lets me down.
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  3. Between reliable lasers, photo printing services and full printing services, the real market for inkjets is definitely small and niche. I would say that a rule of thumb is that if you're buying a cheap one, you probably don't need it.
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  4. Wow, doing it in the first place is bad but doing it after an update? That's tantamount to stealing. I think we need to find a decent quality printer and come up with a community firmware for it.
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  5. I also bought some cartridges that are refillable and reset when they are empty. I highly recommend them.
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  6. I was thinking it might be cool to pick a decent quality printer and come up with a community firmware for it. Just have it ignore the cartridge level. I do have some cartridges that reset once they are empty (you just have to remove them from the printer once). So they are available, for some printers at least.
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  7. Haven't bought a Canon printer in a long time. I'm liking Brother lasers mostly these days. Though they're all at the scamming.
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  8.  @uraldamasis6887  Sinclair ZX Printer did it back in the day. It needed metalized paper though.
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  9.  @truckerzachbell  I considered going with those but decided it would be better to have the cartridges dry out than the bottles if I didn't use it for a while.
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  10. PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?
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  11.    You can get kits that do that for a few printers. I opted to go for refillable cartridges for mine though.
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  12. I don't think that's worked on any modern printer for a while. They're even getting into cryptography now (and the refillable cartridge sellers are still breaking it).
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  13. Another fun thing is that, at least on my Epson printer, running a cleaning cycle uses about 1/10th of the cartridge (and doesn't always work). Found this out after burning through a complete set of cartridges one time. Ended up buying a cleaning kit (which uses cheap cleaning fluid and not precious, precious ink) and refillable cartridges.
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  14.  @Fiyaaaahh  Well, you could just do that with the original starter cartridges. It's all more faff than it should be though.
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