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Easy. Never buy HP. Their printers are shit and so are their laptops.
What’s wrong with their laptops? I’ve never had any issues.
For starters you don’t need a heating unit if you keep their laptop running inside
I’ve never had that problem. But I’ve never had a particularly high end HP laptop so maybe those are different.
Also their batteries get pregnant every other year and if you don’t fix it, it sets your house on fire.
Damn it, people need to stop fucking batteries or use protection.
🤣🤣🤣
Source?
Hahahahaja
Thanks for the laugh, and the vision.
Also, I’ll be stealing the “getting pregnant” line
There’s someone to say something bad about every computer brand.
Their consumer line has very poor build quality. Cheap everything. All of the plastic is flimsy and breaks easily, inadequate cooling, etc. They’re built about as good as Acer, but at a price that you’d expect from a much, much better brand.
Then there’s how dedicated they are to screwing you. I won’t touch them again for any reason after how malicious they were with the nVidia failures.
Brother printer gang printing with their tears of joy.
I got a Brother with the big chonker carts, I usually only print once every 5-6 months and I’m still g2g like 5-6 years in.
I gotta run a cleaning cycle each time usually but that’s perfectly understandable haha.
Being boycotting this shitstain company since Carly Fiorina turned it into a perfect example of peak 1990’s MBA management style (the kind that killed companies like GE) and, once again, I get to pat myself on the back for it.
Almost 20 years of regular smug self-satisfaction for free is a pretty good investment.
Any reliable recommendations for ink jets, in that case?
Last time around I needed a new printer a couple of years ago, I looked around for decent inkjets and couldn’t really find any brands which weren’t undergoing enshittification, so as I only really need B&W I decided to pony up the extra money and bought a “cheap” Brother laser printer instead.
Thanks, I share the same opinion, but don’t want a particle source at home for small/mid-volume printing.
None.
Go laser. It’s worth the difference in price.
I have a 1996 Lexmark laser that just quit on me in July. It’s 14" wide, about 9" tall and 9" deep.
I prefer lasers in special ventilated environments, but not at my home 😀
At this point, I am positive the HP printer marketing department, have lost their collective minds.
Most marketing departments are retarded, but this seems to be a new level of dumb. Bricking printers, blocking 3rd party, messing with firmware, price gouging…
Brother are simple, reliable, low cost and dependable. Every one I have used in commercial or watched in home use have been straight up boss. I don’t own one, but it will be my next printer when the Epson runs out of ink, mark my words!
They do it because they can get away with it. Zero consequences, and they still have a legion of customers who are happy to piss their money down the drain on egregiously overpriced ink.
I totally agree with you: Brother laser printers all the way.
As a satisfied owner of a Brother laser printer, I can safely say I would never want anything else.
I’m so glad I just happened to get a Brother. It was the cheapest one that had the features I wanted (that wasn’t from a completely unknown brand) and it wasn’t an HP. I’ve been nothing but happy with mine and seeing all the love Brother printers get it feels like I totally lucked out.
People keep buying them and signing up for an ink subscription. If people are that dumb, they’d be insane NOT to milk them for cash
This. Just like Apple users.
If like me you don’t print much but still need a printer occasionally, get a laser printer (possibly a scanner multifunction, since it can be handy to scan your receipts), and just buy your cartridges normally. Laser toner won’t dry up like ink does, so you end up paying less for your infrequent prints in the long run.
Go to your local goodwill/thrift store and check for laser printers.
Get a laser printer, with toner cart, for less than 20, often less than 10, bucks.
Yeah but, how big are they?
Depends.
Though I suspect what you can find used for a good price will generally be larger.
You have a scanner in your pocket, just a reminder.
Breaking news: Printer company behaves like printer companies always have. User hostile.
This just in: Capitalism works
If you still own a HP printer, it’s your own fault. Sorry. Got an Canon with liquid refill, loved it, equipped my company with it & recommended it to everyone I know. It’s not even expensive & the quality is impeccable. Plus: no problems whatsoever over Linux.
EDIT: CANON, not Epson. I’m distracted sometimes. Canon PIXMA G4511, sub 300 Eur.
My FIL owns an HP with a subscription. I’ve given up on the things he wastes money on; most of them he’s not really technically savvy enough to implement anyway. (And, yes, buying a printer and getting it installed may exceed his technical abilities)
I have an ecotank, no linux support.
Sorry, that happens when I do too many things at the same time. Canon. I’m talking of the Canon G4511 liquid refill.
I have one of those, it won’t work with my Linux though :/
Now I fucked it up, my finger wrote "Epson x while my brain thought “Canon”… I was talking the Canon G4511.
I only use it for scanning now. I was mad when my parents bought a new one.
Education is the key.
Wait till you find out it purges the lines every print, and while you can replace the purge sponge, the system doesn’t always have a “reset the purge sponge” option. And the ones that do use a rather unknown button combination that may or may not work.
I’ve seen a lot of recommendations for Brother, I want to add one for Ricoh.
I bought a B/W laser printer from Ricoh (213w IIRC) a decade ago for under 40 bucks and a new generic, no-name Amazon toner refill for 25 like 5 years ago. Printed thousands of pages, just sitting in a corner under the stairs.
Bonus: it uses Wi-Fi (so anyone in the house can print) and is compatible with generic PCL drivers in Linux.
Any laser printer is better for occasional printing. Ink doesn’t dry up, no nozzles to get clogged. It just sits there waiting to be used and prints beautifully when you do. I’m so done with ink jets.
“Ink doesn’t dry up” maybe you meant toner.
Well, ink can’t dry up if it doesn’t have any ink to dry up.
Thanks for the advice I am going to see if I can find one
I think they don’t make the home printers anymore.
That sucks, but maybe second-hand can be found, even cheaper.
Who the fuck keep buying HP in 2023 when there are lots of other brands available in the market?
companies and uninformed people who fall for the “recommendations” at the store.
Corps.
I’ve heard their business-oriented products are much much better. Which makes sense, because business customers tend to have contracts that cost the supplier money when things don’t work, whereas pissing off consumers usually costs nothing in the short term.
Go into a store like Walmart and you will have 6 different HP printers, 1 epson, and empty spots where the 1 Lexmark sits. Once you get to rural areas you don’t have much of an option to specially when the point of purchase already limits your purchase options.
Most people will not drive 1-2+ hours to get more options.
Man, if only we could buy printers online!
B-b-b but the $2 shipping is gonna ruin me!
The only thing that still might save printers is competition.
Euuhh does nobody realize Brother has existed for like 20 years and doesn’t pull all this HP shit? They even have label printers which allow third party labels.
There are inkjet printers now from multiple other brands which are great too and allow full refills.
Just don’t buy HP it’s that easy.
Dude. Brother was founded in 1908.
With all the Big Brains at HP making up all this atrocious bullshit you’d think one of them would say “why don’t we buy all the competition like the large media companies are doing? It’s not like the US will stop us, hell they’ll give us subsidies or something.”
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Also, laser printers don’t dry out. Don’t need a subscription.
“They cost money because they save money”
My 1996 Lexmark laser just died this summer. Fortunately I inherited an HP laser (older one) with wifi. Works like a champ.
Picked up a used color laser for $50 a couple years ago.
The number of papers that subscribers are allowed to print…
hahaha
I am guessing people aren’t printing as much as they used to and the prices will just go up eventually.
Also, fuck printers, and HP specifically.
You know why all of the printer companies are so shitty? It’s because they’re in the business of selling printers. That’s why they break and cost so much to maintain. You know why the sewing machine company sells printers that work? Because they accidentally let some of their sewing machine engineers make printers.
Who is the sewing machine company?
That would be Brother.
i had no idea, nice
Ink subscription is a bad descriptor
You pay per page, if you have extra ink leftover then you don’t have access to it
in the year of our lord below 2023, it is so easy to just go to a print shop the 0.5 times per year you have to print something
… if you live in a city
Exactly. Everyone needs to live in bumfuck nowhere atleast a year or two, just as a personality building exercise.
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Yeah. Living in a rural area wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t involve living around people like my mom’s redneck siblings.
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Those are some brave students, considering they should know what their hometown is like.
Maybe they should get more resources to improve their quality of life before you, then.
