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[Alex Eisenhut]

Oh boy. Bought a new laser printer this morning after being fed up with the 10 minute inkjet ballet that resulted in a blank page.
Instead of buying another 30$ Canon ink cartridge (after finding out the 15$ clones are much worse in my printer), I bought a HP color laser, it was 33% off.

Why is the lid of the scanner not on an extensible hinge? That was the most clever feature (only one) of my Canon printer; the scanner lid could be pulled up so it presses flat on thick documents.

Something similar was on my Canon scanner that I bought a decade ago...

So what gives? I looked and looked, and this silly printer (HP M377dw) doesn't have this feature.

Is the extensible cover protected by 50000 patents and an army of lawyers?

[SeanB]

Costs more to make the extra mould parts to do that, and an extra minute in the plant to assemble it, which is a added cost not every user uses. they probably had a "market focus research group" that suggested that users rarely use the platen to make a copy, but almost always use the ADF instead, so cut the extra parts out.