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Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly
rickdg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only thing that still might save printers is competition.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Also, laser printers don’t dry out. Don’t need a subscription.
“They cost money because they save money”
My 1996 Lexmark laser just died this summer. Fortunately I inherited an HP laser (older one) with wifi. Works like a champ.
Picked up a used color laser for $50 a couple years ago.
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 year ago
With all the Big Brains at HP making up all this atrocious bullshit you’d think one of them would say “why don’t we buy all the competition like the large media companies are doing? It’s not like the US will stop us, hell they’ll give us subsidies or something.”
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Euuhh does nobody realize Brother has existed for like 20 years and doesn’t pull all this HP shit? They even have label printers which allow third party labels.
There are inkjet printers now from multiple other brands which are great too and allow full refills.
Just don’t buy HP it’s that easy.
joe_archer@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Dude. Brother was founded in 1908.
adamkempenich@lemmy.world 1 year ago
1908 was … like 20 years ago.
PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You were right until around 2020 when Brother, too, started to roll out firmware updates blocking third party toners or even worse, making the printers intentionally print like crap with third party cartridges:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131