• HousePanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    69
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    It’s shenanigans like this that make me never want to buy a Canon or HP product. If I need a high end inkjet for printing photographs, it’s Epson all day. For anything else, I swear by a good used bulletproof Brother.

    • Maraval26@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Brother was good but I’m disappointed by the last units I had. After 4 years of light home usage (one page here and there), they are not picking up paper in the tray. Same for some relatives which bought similar units. Feels like scheduled obsolescence …

      • teft@startrek.website
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        1 year ago

        The printer might just need a maintenance kit done to it. Those rollers are meant to wear out over time.

        • czech@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          It is surprising they’d stop working after only occasional use. The rollers on my scanner are good for 30k scans.

            • phillaholic
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              1 year ago

              It’s this. All the printers at my office started screwing up in 2022 after barely any usage from 2020-2022.

          • teft@startrek.website
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            Like WagesOf said below, the rollers wear out over time and use. So even if you don’t use them they do eventually just wear out.

        • WagesOf@artemis.camp
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Pretty much guaranteed. The rubber stops working as a function of time just as much as pages printed.

          A maint kit is cheap and takes about 5 mins to install.

      • Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        1 year ago

        If it’s just that, then the rubber on the rollers had probably dried out. I had the same issue with a 10 year old HP inkjet. Some mg chemicals “rubber renue” worked great.

      • I had this same paper issue! I solved it by using heavier weight paper. I think it’s just wear making parts looser. I think it just sincerely can’t grab the cheap, thin sheets as well as it used to. If I were more mechanically minded, I’d be tempted to get in there and see if there was anything I could adjust. But just using heavier paper solved it, so I haven’t gotten to the “if it doesn’t work, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway” stage.