HP Printrule

I've singlehandedly caused hp to lose thousands of dollars. People trust my advice and I've lost all trust in hp so I tell people not to waste their money on it.

Buy brother laser. It’s more expensive, but it’s worth it long term. They last a real long time and the cartridges last bananas and they don’t care about “official” ink

And this is why things like pirating are not only acceptable but necessary. When companies lock services behind paywalls for products we should legally own, we are left with no recourse but to obtain the services we are owed illegally.

They'll be the first company with their backs against the wall when the revolution comes

This should straight up be illegal

HP is probably the worst big tech device company. Their products are shit, break quickly, are overpriced and econ students love them.

Why nobody has made an open source ink jet printer design like reprap, I will never understand. The printer industry seems primed for disruption with all their bullshit and their half century old technology.

there's not a single thing radical about wanting these fuckers out of our homes and out of our lives. Kill em all as far as I'm concerned.

I made the mistake of buying an HP printer. Fortunately I only spent $70 on it.

Then the ink cartridge ran out as I used all the ink up. So instead of buying more ink I purchased a new printer. This time it was a color inkjet from Brother that will last me years on the first ink cartridge.

Funny how it works. Fuck you HP.

This is a real thing? I haven't owned a printer in years. Why would they have his debit info in the first place?

I have literally filed a BBB complaint in the past for HP over their stupid ink subscription being fucky

I have an HP printer now, Epson before that. Both are dogshit. When the HP eventually kills itself, as they tend to do, should I buy a Brother? I heard a lot of good stuff about it but have 0 experience with it.

HP reached its pinnacle in 1993 with the 4L laser printer. They were practically indestructible. I bought one and it took 15 years of heavy use to kill it.

I wish there was a cheap simple laser engraver that could just “burn” black the surface of generic bulk printer paper. As in an inkless monochrome printer.

A bit like How to Cut, Score, and Engrave Paper With a Laser but without the need to use dedicated laser cutter.

With the explosion of interest in 3D printing, machining and laser cutters, I'm just eager to get hold of a printer like that and forever give up on liquid ink and toners of all sorts.

What once was a product, now is a service

We charge your debit, so you can serve us

EDIT: Inspired by The Stupendium

HP execs seething every time I use my old ass HP printer that takes refills and doesn't complain. The ink never dries out either. This thing got no internet access, they can't disable anything without literally breaking down first my door and then the printer itself. I hope they use sleep over this.
Shoutout to the real OGs doing those refills, they fill them more than new ones and sell them for half the price.

Fuck HP. They provided the tech Israel uses to control and surveil Palestinians.

my dot matrix never had this problem

That would be a radicalization moment for the repair movement. Weird to subscribe for a damn printer

Planned obsolescence iceberg when

Wendigoon my beloved

Yeah this the kinda shit that needs to be illegal. Probably is in some countries.

I just print my personal documents at work. Have been doing that for 15 years and counting. Never had an issue.

Radicalized by Cory Doctorow, the first story there called "Authorized Bread" is VERY relevant to this topic. Thats the future we might be heading into. Ugh.

not defending hp at all, but it's a sub service and not any different than the cable company shutting off your internet (think: ink) for not paying. the modem (think: printer) is still there, but doesn't 'work' until the bill is squared-away, even if it's your modem-not theirs......

printer is enrolled in "instant ink". those instant ink cartridges they send out are custom, ultra-high capacity ones you can't buy retail (decreases costs of shipping by greatly reducing the frequency of those shipments). of course they're gonna shut it down if you fail to respond to the barrage of emails and popups that preceded that point.

And this is why I use laser printers

Epson Ecotank FTW

Laughs in Brother's Ink Tank system

I love my current Canon Printer as a budget option but I would really like to get a nice Ink Tank printer. I would never even accept an HP printer under any circumstance, I'm disturbed by the idea of even having one on my network. If my options were the print shop or HP printer, I would visit that print shop almost every day.

What are my fellow lemmy users' thoughts on Sharp MFPs? Those are what we have at my org. They are smart but seem to work well with our print service

And to think Fiorina wanted to be President.

i'm not sure if the fact that the image won't load is on purpose, but the effect is hilarious nonetheless