It would be nice of them to sell replacement kits, though
Comment on Peak technology
hperrin@lemmy.world 3 months agoThat’s an ink absorber, and all inkjet printers have them. It’s not “designed to fail”, it’s a physical limitation of the universe. You can’t just keep dumping ink into a sponge forever. Eventually it will become saturated and you can either clean it or replace it.
Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
That’s fine, but make it easily user replaceable then!
hperrin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It is? It’s behind a panel on the back of the printer. Just take the single Phillips head screw off.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It is designed to fail. But for other reasons and by different mechanisms.
hperrin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s not designed to fail. It’s designed to be user serviceable. You can buy a replacement and replace it yourself. It literally only requires a Phillips head screwdriver to take out the one screw on the back panel. If that is designed to fail, then a car needing an oil change is “designed to fail”.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Literally rocket science. I’m gonna have to pay a monthly subscription so a service tech can come out and do it for me.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It is made out of materials that have a set lifetime or propensity for easily breaking, like glass screens that explode into a supernova if you look at then wrong.
frezik@midwest.social 3 months ago
What materials could be used here that wouldn’t have that problem?
hperrin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ok, at this point I feel like you’re just joking. If not, you’re legitimately mad.