My m404 seems to have been immune to this problem.
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FrogFlogging@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoTry it.
On USB with the basic driver specifically, modern HP printers will let you use the device for exactly 10 print jobs before it locks all functionality and demands that the unit be connected to the network and an HP account registered.
Do not buy them. Find a brother instead.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 months ago
Wasn’t that on Wifi-only devices, where the USB was still there for mass production cost saving reasons?
But yeah, don’t buy HP; message received years ago already.