Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly

rickdg@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • joe_archer@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dude. Brother was founded in 1908.

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    • adamkempenich@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      1908 was … like 20 years ago.

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  • PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Euuhh does nobody realize Brother has existed for like 20 years and doesn’t pull all this HP shit?

    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

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• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.”

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