Comment on Has HP printers always been this bad?

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • oleorun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mark Hurd, another former ceo, sexually harassed anything moved.

      HP’s ceo hires have been…interesting. They’ve all been pretty bad.

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