Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them all forever!
‘Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription’ says HP CEO gunning for 2024’s Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al…::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company’s CEO,
Their cheap. HP lowest end printers were always cheaper then the ink. Customers buy the wireless ink with a subscription and think it’s a convenience. It’s a scam but it’s a scam that works.
Basically now that everyone is poor this is how tech companies will address customer needs: low barrier for every and a subscription.
It’s well known that printers are routinely sold at a loss, with the real revenues made from selling replacement ink cartridges.
I don’t think that’s a sustainable business anymore.
We’ve been using laser for 16 years now, because ink is expensive, and it doesn’t even help much to use it only sparingly, because then the cartridges dry out.
We bought a color laser 10 years ago, and it’s still going strong on only the 2nd set of cartridges (original + 1 set purchased). We have very little use for prints now, as all mail is electronic here now, and yes I mean all, even papers that needs to be signed are done electronically now.
So we print maybe 2 sheets average per month, last prints was my wife printing music scores to practice. The ones before that I can’t even remember.
People in school basically all levels are turning papers in electronically too. I don’t see where a lot of printing is still needed?
Mostly crafts - making custom t-shirts, or bags, and patterns for stuff like crocheting and knitting. But Ink is cheap if you get one of the Ecotanks from Epson - no way to prevent 3rd party ink, and it’s a big tank so doesn’t seem to dry out anywhere near like tiny cartridges. And 70-100ml of ink per color lasts a while IMO.
Hey another article about the shit-on-fire that is HP printers.
Welcome new wtf-is-this-HP consumers! Be assured that HP has trafficked in bullshit around their printers for many, many years! Today is no fucking different and tomorrow won’t be either.
Feel free to launch your HP printer into the sun, as that’s the most enjoyment you’ll ever get out of it. And be sure to watch for the next “Woah, HP printers are fascist garbage” article, due out soon!
I have a Brother laserjet I got on Amazon for $70 10 years ago. I print on it occasionally, and it always works. That thing has never needed new toner. It never jams. It just keeps going. Highly recommend finding a basic laserjet model from that brand.
Companies can change. I have a HP LaserJet 6P that I use with a LPT-to-USB adapter. That thing still works fine. From that anecdote I could also highly recommend HP. But that printer is now 25 years old or so and the company changed a lot since then.
Brother could have changed in those 10 years. Or it could change in 10 more years.
If he hasn’t been scared by Xerox, Brother, and Epson, he won’t be scared by a FLOSS printer. At this point, the only people who buy HP printers are those who don’t even google it and remember hearing the laserjets were good circa 1995.
OkiData makes good business class printers too. The upfront cost is high, but the cost per page is low, so if you’re printing high volume then it’s cheaper overall.
That’s double the cost per page versus a good laser printer even when it works right, but inkjet cartridges will dry out and clog if you don’t use them for a few days so they rarely work right.
I haven’t bought an HP printer in at least 25 years. They used to repeatedly just print jibberish on a few lines and move on to the next page and wouldn’t stop until I killed the print job. Canon laser printers are great and you dont need to worry about magenta drying up and preventing you from printing in black and white.
what a literal fucking psychopath. i mean literally imagine waking up and thinking these things. imagine trying to actively make the world worse like this.
oh yeah i’m trying to make bathrooms a subscription
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Imagine how reliable printers will finally be. And how long the ink will last before a refill now! /s.
No where in there was anything about what the consumer wants or needs. Just theirs
Their cheap. HP lowest end printers were always cheaper then the ink. Customers buy the wireless ink with a subscription and think it’s a convenience. It’s a scam but it’s a scam that works.
Basically now that everyone is poor this is how tech companies will address customer needs: low barrier for every and a subscription.
Canon understands that selling a printer with a maintenance contract is a viable way to do business…to business.
That’s a place where the option is very much appreciated.
This guy is unbelievable. Who the hell would pay a subscription to print? I print maybe once every two months and I have my own company.
I don’t think that’s a sustainable business anymore.
We’ve been using laser for 16 years now, because ink is expensive, and it doesn’t even help much to use it only sparingly, because then the cartridges dry out.
We bought a color laser 10 years ago, and it’s still going strong on only the 2nd set of cartridges (original + 1 set purchased). We have very little use for prints now, as all mail is electronic here now, and yes I mean all, even papers that needs to be signed are done electronically now.
So we print maybe 2 sheets average per month, last prints was my wife printing music scores to practice. The ones before that I can’t even remember.
People in school basically all levels are turning papers in electronically too. I don’t see where a lot of printing is still needed?
Mostly crafts - making custom t-shirts, or bags, and patterns for stuff like crocheting and knitting. But Ink is cheap if you get one of the Ecotanks from Epson - no way to prevent 3rd party ink, and it’s a big tank so doesn’t seem to dry out anywhere near like tiny cartridges. And 70-100ml of ink per color lasts a while IMO.
But laser makes a lot of sense for documents.
Hey another article about the shit-on-fire that is HP printers.
Welcome new wtf-is-this-HP consumers! Be assured that HP has trafficked in bullshit around their printers for many, many years! Today is no fucking different and tomorrow won’t be either.
Feel free to launch your HP printer into the sun, as that’s the most enjoyment you’ll ever get out of it. And be sure to watch for the next “Woah, HP printers are fascist garbage” article, due out soon!
This is why for the one or two times I need to print something a year I just go to the library and pay them $0.10 a page to print something out.
I bought a refurbished laser printer at a garage sale for $30 8 years ago. Still printing off the original toner
Which is why all HP brand printers get filtered out of my search results when looking for a new printer. Won’t even consider buying one at any price.
I will thank him for his honesty and straight forward communication. I now know never to buy an HP printer.
I have a Brother laserjet I got on Amazon for $70 10 years ago. I print on it occasionally, and it always works. That thing has never needed new toner. It never jams. It just keeps going. Highly recommend finding a basic laserjet model from that brand.
Companies can change. I have a HP LaserJet 6P that I use with a LPT-to-USB adapter. That thing still works fine. From that anecdote I could also highly recommend HP. But that printer is now 25 years old or so and the company changed a lot since then.
Brother could have changed in those 10 years. Or it could change in 10 more years.
Eat shit HP. I will eat bag of dicks before I even think of touching their shitty printers
Buy Brother, better printers without all this subscription garbage.
How long before an ‘open source’ printer hots the market and terrifies this idiot CEO?
If he hasn’t been scared by Xerox, Brother, and Epson, he won’t be scared by a FLOSS printer. At this point, the only people who buy HP printers are those who don’t even google it and remember hearing the laserjets were good circa 1995.
Maybe so, but there are people who aren’t scared of bears and get mauled to death. If he really is that dumb he won’t hear the impending doom.
OkiData makes good business class printers too. The upfront cost is high, but the cost per page is low, so if you’re printing high volume then it’s cheaper overall.
Laser Printers for the win. The toner can feel expensive but so much better value than inkjet.
I gotta disagree on the expense, at least for B&W. I have an old HP and the cartridges are $20 and print 1,000 pages.
That’s double the cost per page versus a good laser printer even when it works right, but inkjet cartridges will dry out and clog if you don’t use them for a few days so they rarely work right.
I haven’t bought an HP printer in at least 25 years. They used to repeatedly just print jibberish on a few lines and move on to the next page and wouldn’t stop until I killed the print job. Canon laser printers are great and you dont need to worry about magenta drying up and preventing you from printing in black and white.
what a literal fucking psychopath. i mean literally imagine waking up and thinking these things. imagine trying to actively make the world worse like this.
oh yeah i’m trying to make bathrooms a subscription
i’m trying to make food a subscription
i’m trying to make tv a subscription
i’m trying to make clothes a subscription
i cannot wait to live in paradise
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With each new HP news article I grow more pleased with last year’s decision to ditch HP once and for all and get a Brother.
The Brother just works. Even surprises me in some scenarios where I anticipate lack of support and it comes through anyway. Great printer!