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Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2012–2023), in 10 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Scanning is blocked when any cartridge is emptyUnreviewed
20122026- Scanner refuses to work when an ink cartridge is empty, and self-cleaning burns ink on every scan2023-08-14
- Scanner refuses to work after a print head error, though scanning mechanism is separate2021-10-16
- Scanning is blocked when any cartridge is empty, even for non-printing use2016-03-13
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Scanner refuses to work when an ink cartridge is empty, and self-cleaning burns ink on every scan2023-08-14
- Prints over Wi-Fi time out and eject blank sheets, forcing USB cable use2022-07-09
- Printer nags about toner being past its lifetime while it still prints fine2022-06-24
- A dust speck shifts a cartridge so the printer stops recognising it, forcing slow repeated reseating2022-01-09
- Printer setup fails to ask for a password when the router shares one SSID across 2.4 and 5 GHz2021-12-21
- Scanner refuses to work after a print head error, though scanning mechanism is separate2021-10-16
- Official scanning utility named "ij utility" is impossible to find by searching2021-10-16
- Cryptic blinking-light error pattern hard to decode; misleading cartridge message for a tankless printer2020-11-09
- No Linux drivers, forcing maintenance of old Windows systems just to print2017-01-10
- Scanning is blocked when any cartridge is empty, even for non-printing use2016-03-13
- Linux driver hard to find and install file has a glitch2012-10-19