'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award
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Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them all forever!

‘Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription’ says HP CEO gunning for 2024’s Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al…::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company’s CEO,

  • gentooer@programming.devEnglish
    8·
    7 months ago

    Why isn’t there any competition in the printer space except for Brother? Are printers really that hard to make?

        • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          Got one (WF-2810) at our favorite online retailer monopoly and am pretty happy. The software is ugly and in some places unintuitive but works well, and it allows off-brand inks but “warns” you about them. It also prints relatively slowly (compared to printers of other people) but it really isn’t bad and I’ve had the current cartridges in for the past two years and they still work perfectly after a quick (automatic) refresh. The scanner is ridiculously slow though - I don’t mind but I can imagine it annoying some.

          Can recommend if you don’t print a lot or something!

          • n0clue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            I’m pretty sure your scanner is scanning at a ridiculously high DPI or something, had this problem with some Epsons and it could be fixed in the software, there are two softwares too, one is scan smart and one is scan 2

            • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              Ohhh, really interesting! I’ll check that out, thank you very much!

    • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      I’m really surprised that someone didn’t jump into this space to basically make “the final printer you’ll ever want to buy for home/office use”.

      Sell the printer to make a small profit, support refillable ink, and you’ll basically capture 90% of the market. It’s not a billion dollar idea, but for a small company it could make millions, even as a Kickstarter type thing between some hardware and device software folks.