Comment on Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

• topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For this they must access the network, and internet directly. So if you use it through USB, it won’t work, as the software communicates with the printer through the driver.

  If you access to it through wifi/ethernet, the printer can communicate directly with HP’s servers and do their shit.

  What they could do, is to make wifi/ethernet connection mandatory, even if you use usb.

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure what you think is happening here, the outrage is because HP printers won’t scan if they have no ink, there is no network connection going on here.

    Since mid-2022, HP has been fighting a class-action lawsuit alleging that certain all-in-one printer models won’t scan or fax without ink and that HP doesn’t properly disclose this to shoppers. On January 13, 2023, the complaint was dismissed but allowed to be amended (you can view the amended complaint here: PDF), and on August 10, a Northern District of California judge dismissed HP’s motion to dismiss the amended complaint PDF.

    HP Envy 6455e and HP Deskjet 2655 purchasers Gary Freund and Wayne McMath filed the complaint, which states that HP printers are designed to enter an error state when low or out of ink, preventing usage until the installment of a new ink cartridge. The plaintiffs are also peeved that HP marketing and advertising doesn’t clearly disclose this, the complaint says. The complaint also notes that an HP support agent has said that HP printers are “designed in such a way that with the empty cartridge or without the cartridge the printer will not function.”

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    • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was commenting about this : thisismoney.co.uk/…/Printers-remotely-disabled-cu…

      If you stop your subscription to instant ink, your cartridge you received through it, are disabled, even if they stay filled.

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Cool, so that’s a different thing and also relies on your printer having it’s own network connection which most do these days. It has nothing to do with drivers.

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