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HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::"Never own a printer again."

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How out of touch is HP? Every year I print less than the previous year. The use case for printers is dwindling. I lived quite happily without a printer for a decade. They need to find another business.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I still own a HP laser printer (older model from 5-10 years ago) which does not have the online connectivity requirement and the third party cartridges could last for ages.

As long as the printer dies I will forget HP and its bullshit exists and never touch their products again.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

$36 a month for something I would use maybe 2 or 3 times a year? That's $432 I would pay for those 2-3 prints. Subscription based printer accessibility (not ownership) is a lossing strategy for normies like me. Maybe it may work for b2b segment. Aslo, Fuck you, HP. Thanks for convincing me not to buy your other products.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

i had one of the cheapest versions of this plan; it seems nice, but the cheap ones have such low limits that you're always a bit paranoid to print too freely or joyfully. plus the bullshit how they software lock the ink if you don't pay and would rather pay shipping / recycling back just so you can't have it for 'free'

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Weird thought, printing "freely or joyfully."

I hate printing documents and do everything I can to avoid it, even with my little Epson inkjet that is free of most of that garbage (it does bitch at you if you use off-brand cartridges but will allow it).

Other than the occasional form or whatever that HAS to be on paper, about the only thing I print is CAD drawings so I can carry them to the wood shop with me. And I'd like to eliminate even that if I could find the right electronic device to run it on, which I'm not sure exists. (I'd like to have an ARM tablet or maybe convertible laptop running desktop Linux and FreeCAD, but there's some mutual exclusivity in there).

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

HP can go fuck themselves

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

My last HP printer had a serial port. It was all down hill from there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I recently trashed my HP and bought a really old Dell LaserJet from government auction. $25 and it came with a 60% full toner. Been using it for 2 months and still have 54% toner left.

I'll probably never replace this thing and keep fixing it until I can't find parts anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Why should I care about company X launching Y, where Y is uninnovative? I percieve this post as an ad

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Meanwhile, physical media is on the decline.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't pay $36 for an HP printer that they didn't monitor much less per month

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Yup dawg, we heard you like economic rent…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

I'll just print off the odd thing I need a paper copy of from work and continue as I've done for a dexade by puposefully denying myself from the sincere privilege of paying HP another god damned red cent for as long as draw breath, kthxbai. 🖕

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

My last printer was an hp , the ink only lasted a few months. I’m done with it. At most I print a few items per month so we now go to fedex office and have it printed there for $0.20

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