‘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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    2 years ago

    This is why for the one or two times I need to print something a year I just go to the library and pay them $0.10 a page to print something out.

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      2 years ago

      I bought a refurbished laser printer at a garage sale for $30 8 years ago. Still printing off the original toner

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      2 years ago

      My printing has become so incredibly rare that even paying $0.50 per page st a ups/fed ex store is a better deal than having a printer. I’m not even sure the printer my wife insists on keeping is compatible with windows 11, which is basically all our PCs now.

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        2 years ago

        Because of basically ALL printer manufacturers. I know people like Brother printers, generally, but why pay something like $60-100 for a printer when you only need to use one a few times a year?

        For me the cost savings are pretty huge.

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          2 years ago

          I go out of my way to eliminate paper wherever possible, so I would rather spend $100 to be able to do something digitally than $50 for a printer.