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Yeah fuck HP. Not buying one of their products ever again, printer or otherwise.
When my printer runs out of ink I buy a new printer.
They make a loss on the printers and I rarely print
Back when I was getting into electronics, I used to drive around during hard waste collections on the lookout for interesting devices to pull apart. (One man's trash is another man's treasure!)
Honestly, it was shocking how many printers and scanners were being thrown out. Every second hard waste pile had one. These were devices that looked 3-4 years old at most.
Clearly many people employ your strategy, and the companies are to blame. The volume of waste they're incentivising with their business model is criminal. I hope HP get everything that's coming to them.
I remember when I was a teenager, Walmart sold shitty printers that came with ink for $35... Replacement ink for that exact model was $20/cartridge.
Colleges are a huge problem with this. They charge per page, it's reasonable... but a lot of the Laptops used to come with coupons for near free printers. So basically all of them get chucked at the end of graduation or even each year.
If Greenpeace really cared every cannon and HP employee would be nailed to a cross lining the path to their headquarters.
I’m sure they’ll think to include a small piece of paper that says something about mandatory binding arbitration and waiving all rights that can be legally waived, in the next version.
I dropped HP printers when I tried to use a new ink cartridge and it was out of date and wouldn't print. We have 2 Epson's with refillable ink cartridges now.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
HP "sought to take advantage of customers' sunk costs," printer owners claimed this week in a class action lawsuit against the hardware giant.
Lawyers representing the aggrieved were responding [PDF] in an Illinois court to an earlier HP Inc motion to dismiss a January lawsuit.
Among other things, the plaintiffs' filing stated that the printer buyers "never entered into any contractual agreement to buy only HP-branded ink prior to receiving the firmware updates."
In the case, which began in January, the plaintiffs are arguing that HP issued a firmware update between late 2022 and early 2023 that they allege disabled their printers if they installed a replacement cartridge that was not HP-branded.
It added that the printer owners can't claim damages for being overcharged under federal antitrust laws because consumers who buy products from an intermediary can sue the manufacturer for injunctive relief under those laws, but they can't sue the manufacturer to recover damages resulting from an alleged overcharge.
HP CEO Enrique Lores has made no secret of the fact that it hopes to pull customers into a print subscription business model.
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Fuck hp, fuck brother, and fuck all of them, they all do it
Do Brother printers prevent you from using non Brother branded cartridges?
Brother printers won't even let you print in black after you're out of yellow for three weeks.
Its worth knowing brother has very recently taken on this stance as a company. They used to be the GO TO for good non shitty printers, but no longer
And they'll burn through yellow during "cleaning" to make it even worse
Worse, they make printing in black only without colors anywhere from impossible to infuriating, depending on how much you're willing to put up with.
And yeah, you get one use of a non brother cartridge, then it's "empty" permanently.
Agreed. There's no such thing as a good printer anymore. Fuck them.
On the bright side, printers sucking so badly has led me to take extreme measures to avoid having to print much of anything, and on the rare occasion we need something printed, I just go to the library and do it there.
And then you get to go to the library!
One of my favorite places to be tbh
If you really, I mean REALLY, want to hate printers, try being a Citrix admin. It's a bit better now but 20 years ago it was a pita.
Yeah, not sure why I qualified my statement with "anymore." Printers have always sucked donkey ass!
Did you read the eula?
yes you did its on page 382 of the eula
Not legally binding. Companies can kick you off their services, but they can't legally make you do anything IRL like agree to arbitration or only buy their ink, etc.
i was mostly joking, i hope hp gets fucked if thats at all possible.