Hi HP, I want my printer boring as it should be
In rare move from printing industry, HP actually has a decent idea
Submitted 8 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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callmepk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
turtletracks@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Right? And what do you mean, untrustworthy? If anything, HP created that issue lol
lurch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Huge article and it’s just “Perfect Output” an AI to adjust printer settings and page setup. Don’t read this waste of time.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
When I print something, I certainly don’t want AI messing with it. I often use a printed copy to make sure something will fit before I 3D print it or have a PCB made. I need it to print exactly at 100% scale.
I would love to have the page cleanup feature built into my web browser though. Hardly any sites include a print layout anymore.
realitista@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I would definitely use it for the examples like recipes and spreadsheeets to improve the formatting if it worked as shown.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
can’t we just print the reader mode page of Firefox?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Wow. Now we use AI to fix formatting issues.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
One could use Perfect Output to quickly fix image sizes and remove ads and white space when printing something off a website, HP says as an example.
So Reader Mode for printers?
tal@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Plus, is this sending my data to HP to be processed remotely as a cloud service, or is this AI stuff being run locally? I don’t especially want to have the contents of my print jobs being sent to HP.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if their AI rewrites their terms of service if you try to print it.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
What, “decent”? They’re just jumping on the AI bandwagon.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 8 months ago
HP is doing a lot of advertisement lately, the boycott must show first fruits. Fuck HP.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
Dont care. The only HP printers I’ll ever use moving forward are gonna be any I happen to get for free.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
…any I happen to get for free and I have no other working printers. I have a Brother color laser, so they have nothing I want.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
Yep. My parents have a Brother printer that I use, and I work in IT and got a free HP printer that I’m holding onto for when I move out. Otherwise, I’d buy a Brother printer.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or… just copy the text that you want to print in libreoffice and print from there
Moreover, I don’t understand why HP is wasting lots of server processing power for this. If someone prints one page instead of 47, then they can downgrade from the highest plan of their ink subscription with 100 monthly pages to the lowest cheapest plan with only 15 pages. Maybe they plan to include a page with sponsored coupons in the printout?
JackDark@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It uses AI to rearrange and resize content when you are printing from the internet. The example is pretty compelling, but doesn’t make up for everything else HP does.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I must be living in the future…
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 8 months ago
The example in the article reduces a recipe print from 47 pages to 1 by using AI to remove all of the filler garbage and leaves just the recipe instructions. Slightly different than just rearranging elements.
Grimy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yup it’s a cool feature and I’ll be sure to get some kind of open source tool that leverages my own computer ressources and isn’t tied to such a terrible printer to do it.