At their “cheapest” 0.099 euro / $0.11 USD tier it is literally cheaper per page (albeit certainly not faster) for me to print documents as 8.5x11" 0.1mm thick single layer slabs of plastic on my 3D printer.
An entire “blank” page, i.e. no cutouts for text or anything, would be about 0.754 grams of plastic. That’s about $0.0143 per page at a not-too-exorbitant retail cost of PLA filament ($18.99 USD for a kilo) and the material usage would be even less once the negative space for text is added. And I don’t even have to buy the paper.
That’s mind boggling. Apparently I’m in the wrong racket.
cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world 11 months ago
9point6@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Was gonna say I vaguely remember when HP implied some level of quality
dan1101@lemm.ee 11 months ago
HP was indeed affordable and good. They made good laptops and laser printers for many years.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I remember Carly Fiorina getting hired and almost immediately things started turning to shit.
Godort@lemm.ee 11 months ago
HP is still plenty serviceable as long as you’re getting HP Enterprise. The consumer stuff has been trash for almost 20 years now.
egeres@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Actually, they are still ahead of the competition in industrial printing, their indigo and pagewide web presses are very good and reliable, but of course those products belongs to a whole different market segment
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Running Linux on a HP Victus desktop. The hardware is fine (I got it at a good price when my last home built PC crapped out and graphics cards were overpriced)… Bloat. Bloat everywher in windows.
pfjarschel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As someone who works extensively with the spin offs instruments, I can safely say that they would be just as outraged. They are all bad quality, fail VERY frequently, and, guess what, you have to subscribe to be able to use all the features of the hardware you bought.
IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 11 months ago
Jokes on you. HP is moving into the energy sector with their spinning bodies with magnets attached.
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Classic Dilbert