The only Canon printer I ever owned was a piece of garbage. For whatever reason, I couldn’t just select my home wifi from a list like literally any other network-enabled device. I instead had to select an option buried several layers deep in the menus to have it try to automatically connect to an open network. Only after waiting 5 minutes for this to fail would it show a list of available networks.
Of course, it also forgot the network and password settings every time it lost power, so I had to go through the whole process again after time I unplugged the thing to clean behind the shelf.
I’ve never had much luck with the consumer level canon printers, absolute pieces of shit. I used to sell printers and would steer people towards brother or Epson. However last I saw, canon did still have printers that could be used entirely offline.
I have had one printer bricked and my dad had 2 bricked by hooking up to the internet. I didn’t realize that was what was happening until it was too late.
Who sells dumb printers though? I would buy that in a heartbeat.
I’m pretty sure you can still get brother, Canon, and Epson ones
Canon bricks their printers, only replaces full cartridges and is super touchy about hooking up to the internet.
Canon is 100% as evil as HP
The only Canon printer I ever owned was a piece of garbage. For whatever reason, I couldn’t just select my home wifi from a list like literally any other network-enabled device. I instead had to select an option buried several layers deep in the menus to have it try to automatically connect to an open network. Only after waiting 5 minutes for this to fail would it show a list of available networks.
Of course, it also forgot the network and password settings every time it lost power, so I had to go through the whole process again after time I unplugged the thing to clean behind the shelf.
I’ve never had much luck with the consumer level canon printers, absolute pieces of shit. I used to sell printers and would steer people towards brother or Epson. However last I saw, canon did still have printers that could be used entirely offline.
Brother sells some
Brother is the only printer company I like. I’ve had a workhorse for ages and it is still going strong.
I’ve been using them for 20ish years and never had any more trouble than routine maintenance.
Estate sales, yard sales, and tech scrappers/recyclers tend to have em as well.
I have had one printer bricked and my dad had 2 bricked by hooking up to the internet. I didn’t realize that was what was happening until it was too late.