HP is very insistent that users of its printers don't turn to cheaper third-party alternatives for their ink cartridges. It introduced a feature called Dynamic Security in...

From my point of view HP printers are a bad investment.

  • 4dpuzzleEnglish
    34•5 months ago

    And they’re investing in the customers in what sense? It’s the customers who make the investment in their products and get their dignity challenged in return.

    I have a need for a printer and HP is solidly in the don’t-touch list. Companies that treat their customers so indignantly as HP should simply be raided and closed for good. Or perhaps, HP should realize that morons like this scumbag are a bad investment as a CEO.

    • @rekabis@lemmy.ca
      1•5 months ago

      I have a need for a printer and HP is solidly in the don’t-touch list.

      The only HP printers I still recommend are the vintage ones from the pre-2005 era. HP 4050DTN and HP 5000DTN and the like. Absolutely rock-solid laser printers that don’t have DRM or any other shite. Hell, I can get overstuffed cartridges for the 4050 that can do 20,000 sheets at 5% coverage… who does that these days? And they’re capable of taking JetDirect cards clear up to the gigabit level.