I wondered - does anybody have any experience with Canon driver support for older printers vs newer OS? My experience has not been so good, and is forcing early retirement of a perfectly good printer, but I have the impression that Canon are usually pretty good at ongoing OS support?
My old faithful Canon Pixma MX700 is up for renewal. Built like a tank, it still functions perfectly at nine years old, but Canon stopped updating OS X drivers some years ago. I have managed to keep it chugging along by installing the 'wrong' drivers, that should not work, but do. With latest macOS High Sierra I can still print, but no amount of driver hacking seems to get the scanner to work. So it is time to change.
I'll probably talk myself into buying another Canon as I liked the old one so much. But a bit disappointed to see the cartridge ink volumes have shrunk lot from the old machine's generous 13ml colour, 26ml Black. I reckon total cost of ownership of old machine was about £600 over nine years, including purchase and 45-50 genuine cartridges. New printer, though purchase price is similar, will probably at least
double that overall cost.
Canon do offer 'XL' and 'XXL' cartridges for the new ranges, but even the XXL are smaller than the standard cartridges of my old Pixma (and more than twice the price!). Par for the course though, I suspect, just the business model for printers - which, let's be honest, are ridiculously cheap to buy.