I bought inkjets for years because I was doing a lot of photo printing, but my latest one (or I should say last one!), a Canon Pixma, was just ridiculous this way. No ink = no scanning -- whaaaaa?? I don't print much anymore, so now the cartridges dry up in the printer and/or expire, I'm not sure which, before I get any use out of them.

I picked up a Brother laser a few months ago and I don't ever have to be annoyed by that crap again.