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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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[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Was that HP Laserjet unable to use 3rd party toner?

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Too many disagreements about whether it worked or not in the reviews to spend a minimum of $99 on it.

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 2 points 9 months ago

Ah, that makes sense. I've only used the really old ones but I imagine that they've made it harder to do this on more recent models.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

HP has absolutely lost their minds and misread consumers, even business consumers. They’ve absolutely made things near impossible to use 3rd party supplies. I mean, they want to go full subscription model so you’re paying monthly to use a piece of sub-par hardware you bought. They still think they don’t have competition and haven’t realized Brother and others like Lexmark have surpassed them in the enterprise world.

Oh and we got the printer delivered and it was up and printing in about 5 min. That included me inputting the WiFi password using the up and down arrows and ok button. Brother’s still got it.

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