Is it time to retire the scanner ?

Dutch Ingraham stoa at gmx.us
Sat Oct 22 22:31:13 UTC 2016


On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 09:39:23PM +0000, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 22:47:54 +0200, Polytropon stated:
> 
> > On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 20:13:33 +0000, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 10:09:01 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk stated:
> 
> Serious logic problems here. You don't need ink to scan, unless you are
> scanning and printing the document(s) simultaneously, in which case you

That's uninformed.  Manufacturers of inexpensive devices make their money on
ink, and design their products to stop functioning, whether ink is needed for
the particular function or not.  A simple google search will turn up hundreds of
these complaints.  Here is a start:

https://consumerist.com/2013/01/24/if-you-want-to-scan-without-an-ink-cartridge-
maybe-dont-buy-an-all-in-one-at-all/


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