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‘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,
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Obligatory Brother Laser Printer comment.
I looked into these the other day as my canon inkjet is on its last legs, but it seems any brother laser printer with a comparable featureset now has its own subscription model, and I could be wrong but this is how it seems to work based on my research:
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You automatically get a trial subscription with the toner you get in these printer models (not sure, I hope it’s opt-in)
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If you don’t continue the subscription after the trial, the toner cartridges lock and there’s no way to continue using them, even if you renew your subscription later. You have to pay for new toner cartridges.
I bought an Epson ink tank printer because I was so done with cartridges. I’m quite happy with it so far. Always works, never saw any prompts for me to make accounts or install bullcrap software.
If you own a Brother subscription, you can also get coffee packets, and fresh sock subscription as a service! To your door!
With how popular they’ve been for years, I’d be honestly surprised if they hadn’t enshittified. Reddit got a hard on for them like ten years ago.
In fairness, mine is probably even older than that. I think they still sell the basic models. HL-L2305W?
You know how this happens right? Old mid man gets fired, new mid man gets hired- now, how for the new mid man to qualify their own existence? Change something. Improvement! Something to show the boss. But what happens when the product is already solid, when any change made to it worsens its functions? How do you improve a fork? You can’t, so instead you start adding shit to it, like better grip, sharper teeth, whatever, and the final product evolves gradually into a monster that is at the same time fork, printer, thermostat, and toilet paper dispenser.
The logical procession and ultimate conclusion of capitalism is this.
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And Canon laser brinter!
And Epson Ecotank
Obligatory “no step brother, that is not where letter sized papers are supposed to go”
That CEO doesn’t even make top 1000 for worst person, that’s just naïve to think he ranks up there with Warlords, Dictators, Winnie the Pooh, and the Sackler Family.
There’s pkenty of room in the ocean to drown them all, and we can reuse the plank.
This is why I prefer Epson Ecotank printers.
I like the concept, but every time I needed to print, I got to do clean print heads like three times before I could print normally.
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 got a cold call from a VAR that deals with HP servers. And I’m like no thank you, I won’t work with HP. They asked why and I told them straight up their anti consumer practices.
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!
The moral of the story is don’t buy HP anything. Already trying to replace our large format latex printer from HP over this. Fuck that guy.
So, they basically want to be a copy shop? Didn’t most of the dedicated ones go out of business?
Does an “open-source printer” exist?
I can’t believe there aren’t any start-ups out there trying to “disrupt” the printer market.
It’s called the library
I can’t believe there aren’t any start-ups out there trying to “disrupt” the printer market
Because in reality, printing is really not needed in most homes given the advent of paperless billing. I was still sneaking my essential documents to the work printer for many years, and even at the height of the pandemic, I was free printing at the library.
HP clearly wants to milk any small businesses for what they have with this, larger companies are already leasing the printers from the OG nickel and dimer: Xerox.
People lease those huge pieces of shit? Holy shit what a racket.
PC LOAD LETTER
Welcome to The Economy.
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It would be so easy for all of us to come together and “disrupt the market”, but we don’t. If we collectively get together, like a crowd-funded FOSS alternative, and build this shit ourselves and sell it, that would wreak havoc with the game these leeches play, but we don’t.
WHY don’t we.
Okay, start the project.
I don’t wanna.
Can you do it?
WHY don’t we.
I think we found the answer to your question.
As far as I know, there aren’t even any Chinese companies trying to enter into this market. Xiaomi has a few high-priced inkjet printers and that’s it.
Ive been thinking about this recently. We have essentially done that for 3D printers from the start. We should absolutely do this for 2D printers
good luck with that!
You can probably rig an old dot matrix printer to work on modern machines. Convert the serial plug to usb by crimping some cables, and I would bet dollars to donuts that there are drivers out there.
fuck these goddamn late stage capitalist monsters, they’re fucking living caricatures.
Shame this won’t pass: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-and-colleagues-introduce-legislation-to-combat-corporate-greed-and-end-outrageous-ceo-pay-2/
The “late stage” part is unnecessary. This is just capitalism working as intended.
Right? This is just deregulated capitalism being really good at extracting wealth from us peons.
I wouldn’t ever count a Bernie bill out, no matter how unlikely it seems. He has a reputation for getting things passed. His nickname in the Senate is “the amendment king”
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!
PC load letter!? What the fuck does that mean?
Eat shit HP. I will eat bag of dicks before I even think of touching their shitty printers
Paperless offices and WFH eating their lunch
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.
I, too, love my old Brother laser printer. Their website is absolute garbage though. I don’t know what they did to it, but it is just slow as hell.
Definitely spend the extra $10 for duplex printing or regret it for the rest of your life.
(Seriously, why even make non-diplex printers?)
My guess would be someone who doesn’t know React well made it. I don’t know React well and I’ve made some atrocities. You forget to wrap one statement in useEffect and it’s all over.
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.
I’ll go one step further and never buy another HP product of any kind!
Well at least HP is being honest about it, so I know to never do business with them.
I bet Epson will be next. AUGH
I mean I get that they are established but what exactly is keeping their customers coming back to them? They make printers, there is no magic sauce, I’m sure they’re nice printers, but there are other companies, or someone could start a new printer company. I just can’t fathom why they think they can get away with treating their customers this way and not expect to lose them. Unless there is something I’m missing?
Corporate deals. Entire companies are tied to HP for their services.
Those poor souls…
