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Inkjet printers
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 12 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Inkjet heads clog when printers are not used oftenUnreviewed
20152026- Inkjets become unusable when left unprinted for long periods at home2024-12-06
- Printers keep failing to work reliably, especially inkjet models2023-04-17
- Inkjets clog often, forcing long head cleaning and cartridge fiddling before printing2022-11-30
Print heads must be repeatedly realigned or unclogged, wasting inkUnreviewed
20152026- Printer preens and makes you wait before it starts printing, which is frustrating2023-02-18
- Hard to connect reliably, prints blank pages, needs cleaning, and takes minutes to start printing2022-07-20
- Must repeatedly realign or unclog print heads, wasting time and ink before printing2022-01-08
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 12 complaints
- Inkjets become unusable when left unprinted for long periods at home2024-12-06
- Printers keep failing to work reliably, especially inkjet models2023-04-17
- Printer preens and makes you wait before it starts printing, which is frustrating2023-02-18
- Inkjets clog often, forcing long head cleaning and cartridge fiddling before printing2022-11-30
- Hard to connect reliably, prints blank pages, needs cleaning, and takes minutes to start printing2022-07-20
- Must repeatedly realign or unclog print heads, wasting time and ink before printing2022-01-08
- Ink dries out when printing infrequently, making printer unusable when needed2020-07-30
- Must run realign or cleaning cycles three times before printing2020-01-18
- Inkjets jam and clog, forcing long unclogging sessions before use2019-11-15
- Cartridges run out or clog from infrequent use, so printing is unreliable2017-12-06
- Ink dries out when printing infrequently, so cartridges expire after few pages2016-10-12
- Inkjet printers clog and need maintenance when not used often2015-12-17