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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] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Epson?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This. Ecotank printers are great and even let you print non-standard inks like photo-resist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Wow, I've never heard of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have an ET-8550 that we bought for printing family photos to scrapbook. It eats ink from bottles instead of cartridges and is happily printing anything I can give it for 2 years now. I print 5-10 coloured pages every 1–2 weeks for a hobby, plus two full photo albums came out of it, and we're still on the first set of ink bottles.

I don't need any wonky software either, it's on the WLAN and Windows just automatically notices it, installs drivers and prints from the OS prompt. Maybe my better half uses their software for the photo printing, IDK.

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

Well their Ecotank printers are pretty popular and in every Walmart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

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

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