Comment on Has HP printers always been this bad?
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 year ago
HP haven’t always been this bad, but they are this bad now, and nobody should be giving them money.
HP was the gold standard back in the day. Money says you can still buy kits and toner for IIIs, IVs, and Vs.
Work gave me a tiny HP laser when we did a refresh, and it’s a damned beast. Probably 12-yo, thousands and thousands of pages, never a glitch or jam. Toner cartridges are $18 and last forever.
I had to stop using my LaserJet 5si. Not because it broke, but because Windows stopped shipping drivers. Could have hacked around it, but I figured that new toner cartridges would be harder to come by if it doesn’t easily work on Windows anymore, so time to move on.
oleorun@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Carly Fiorina destroyed HP. She tanked product quality by using cheap plastic parts instead of metal and she can’t manage people. She’s a terrible leader and on a personal level she’s just not right in the head.
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hp printers were shit well before her.
oleorun@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I beg to differ.
The old LaserJet 4s, 5s, the II sand IIIs, the 8000 series, all those were great, well built printers with metal frames and heavy duty parts. They were made to last.
We still have a LaserJet 5M that prints reports hooked up to an airgapped Linux server. The printer never breaks down or needs anything more than toner. Yes, it’s slow. Amusingly slow. The page count is over 250k. The user is starting to ghost but it’s easily replaced. We just don’t care enough to do it right now. The printer doesn’t care.
Try this with any printer built after the Fiorina era and you’d be hard pressed to.
I’m all ears if you have a specific model in mind that was shit before Carly. Because, before her, HP was an industry leader. Now it’s cheap plastic junk, and it’s squarely on her failure as CEO that led to the company’s demise.
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I take it back. My recall of that CEO had her more recently (like 2015 or so). Must’ve confused with a different company and incompetent CEO.