I need to vent for just a moment. This is pretty simple:

I've got a scanner / copier / printer, and I was trying to scan an image today. I could not do so, because my printer was out of ink.

I could not SCAN an image because it was out of ink. Why!?

Why would you design something like that?

I am seriously extremely angry about this. In the several years I have had this printer, not ONCE has it ever printed, or scanned, or copied, without issues. And yet even then it's still (slightly) better than the last printer I had (mostly because you don't have to feed the pages in one at a time). How is printer technology so bad?

I actually long since ago turned mine into an all-purpose compartment. For, you know.....things and such...

much more useful that way

Printers are bullshit.

hsauq said:
Where were you getting this error, exactly? Was it a message that appeared on the printer itself or was it from a specific application that you were using?

What printer do you have, anyway?

On the printer itself.

It's an HP something or other F380 bleh thing.

Why are printers so terrible?

Probably because the 'printer industry' is dominated by the corporate equivalent of circlejerking. It's not just limited to printers, but any specialized hardware in general

Flagrant violations of non-competition clauses en masse, vendor lockout, false advertising, hardware/firmware tampering, etc etc

Until more people realize that vendor lock out is a thing that even exists in the first place, and better alternatives are possible, then it's likely going to stay that way, because $$$

Maybe 3d printers can change that, unless they find a way to put that on patent lockdown too and nobody does anything about it on time