I'm going to be in the market for a camera soon, and I'll never touch a Canon because of their printers. If they want good brand recognition they have to earn it and they have not for me

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] alphapuggle@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brother sells some

[–] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Estate sales, yard sales, and tech scrappers/recyclers tend to have em as well.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.