Just get a laser printer, dammit. There are even color laser printers if you need it.
And if you only need a printer to, for example, print photos once once in a while, you might as well have a print shop handle it because you’d probably have to replace the dried-up unused ink cartridges.
Anyone who needs an inkjet printer to regularly print high-quality photos shouldn’t be using some cheap-ass HP anyway.
independent_observe on
It has been years since I bought a HP printer. They started screwing customers long before the ink DRM.
Brother makes superior laser printers. I have had a Brother laser printer for 8 years and all I have had to do was replace the toner once.
lina_apple on
Except HP putting RFID chips in their printer ink is exactly the sort of thing that would make a printer hack-able in the first place.
lina_apple on
“We wrote the software so poorly that when we tested it, we found that we could manage to infil a network and exfil data through malicious code on a cartridge. We’d love to let anyone make cartridges, but it’s just too dangerous!” – HP engineering VP, probably
TJPII-2 on
I like HP computers but they wont get a dime from me on anything else because of this printer BS. Their CEO said I wasn’t the kind of customer they want, so I decided I’m not gonna be a customer.
aadcock on
My printer is 20+years old and I keep a loaded gun next to it in case it makes any sounds I don’t recognize.
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Just get a laser printer, dammit. There are even color laser printers if you need it.
And if you only need a printer to, for example, print photos once once in a while, you might as well have a print shop handle it because you’d probably have to replace the dried-up unused ink cartridges.
Anyone who needs an inkjet printer to regularly print high-quality photos shouldn’t be using some cheap-ass HP anyway.
It has been years since I bought a HP printer. They started screwing customers long before the ink DRM.
Brother makes superior laser printers. I have had a Brother laser printer for 8 years and all I have had to do was replace the toner once.
Except HP putting RFID chips in their printer ink is exactly the sort of thing that would make a printer hack-able in the first place.
“We wrote the software so poorly that when we tested it, we found that we could manage to infil a network and exfil data through malicious code on a cartridge. We’d love to let anyone make cartridges, but it’s just too dangerous!” – HP engineering VP, probably
I like HP computers but they wont get a dime from me on anything else because of this printer BS. Their CEO said I wasn’t the kind of customer they want, so I decided I’m not gonna be a customer.
My printer is 20+years old and I keep a loaded gun next to it in case it makes any sounds I don’t recognize.