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		hedora on Oct 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run... How cheap are you insisting on? Single function networked color laser printers are in the mid $200’s, new. If you add a page fed scanner, you’re looking at $400-500. Surely, you’ll waste $100’s on dried out inkjet ink and buying a new inkjet printer / scanner combo every 2-5 years.

dragonwriter on Oct 16, 2021 [–]

Cheap laser printers, like cheap inkjets, use the cheap razor/expensive blades model, too (and leverage the popular understanding of the semi-knowledgeable that that is an inkjet but not laser issue to get away with it.)

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