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'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... (www.pcgamer.com)
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'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,

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I can’t believe there aren’t any start-ups out there trying to “disrupt” the printer market

Because in reality, printing is really not needed in most homes given the advent of paperless billing. I was still sneaking my essential documents to the work printer for many years, and even at the height of the pandemic, I was free printing at the library.

HP clearly wants to milk any small businesses for what they have with this, larger companies are already leasing the printers from the OG nickel and dimer: Xerox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

People lease those huge pieces of shit? Holy shit what a racket.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

PC LOAD LETTER

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Welcome to The Economy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I print a lot of shipping labels from home, but I use an old brother printer with a USB B plug onto old FedEx labels that I bought a ream of almost 20 years ago. When the labels run out or the printer breaks, I will just buy a cheap thermal printer.