Which of the 3 buttons does which of the 4 commands listed next to them?
Start black and start color?
Technology Connections would say: Read the manual.
Technology Connections would say: Read the fucking manual.
FTFY
Ah yes, if I remember right he referenced this when he said it.
This is the correct answer. There’s even a slight plastic indentation to let the user know that both of the buttons in question are “start” buttons.
I think the design is fine.
That’s also how I saw it. Nonetheless, that’s really poor design.
I didn’t notice the indent until you pointed it out. It’s probably slightly more apparent in person
Red is stop, white is start in black and white mode, green is start in color mode.
Pretty easy to figure out huh? The poster must be a dum dum
It would also be “easy to figure out” if each button had a different color and there was a table of what each color did. Neither design is good, though. No one should have to “figure out” what such a simple set of buttons does
The problems with it are so apparent, defending it makes me think you just wanted to argue about something today lol
A few of you mentioned the “indent” - I never even saw it until I zoomed way in on the photo I took after you mentioned it. I can’t even see it in person. My vision isn’t great, but I think that suggests even more strongly a bad design.
You shouldn’t need an indent to make it clear what all the buttons do lol
Terrible design.
Completely valid as accessibility is extremely important and not having it accessible for people with poor vision automatically makes it a bad design
Indeed, it’s terrible. And the button on the far right is for toggling wifi.
This honestly straightforward…
As we can see on the left, this seems to be a scan, copy, and fax device.
The white and green buttons are labeled with Start, with a physical indent to indicate the relation. The white one is labeled with black [Start], and the green one is labeled with Color [Start]. The red button is labeled with Stop to stop the process and Exit to exit menus.
It’s so obviously clear! /s
Looks fine, no issue with the design.
Push the white button to make it start in Black mode.
Careful you don’t get shot by police
Obviously, the labels are above the button they correspond with unless the label is underneath its button.
By the way, do you still have operational fax lines where you are (not eFax)?
Anyplace wired with plain old telephone lines could do fax. Though I believe the POTS->cable company converters won’t work with fax.
Printers that include a built-in scanner often include fax because it’s easy. They just need to add a modem and some software, and the modem hardware is dirt cheap.
I agree, if you have POTS then you can send a fax if the printer has a modem installed. I don’t happen to have a POTS landline.
POTS is typical provided along side internet on the ISP modem
Most business is over VOIP and so then is the fax.
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