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HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

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[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Why anyone still plays the ink jet game I do not fuckin know.

Space. At least for me, space is the reason. I'm flatting at the moment and can only keep the printer in my room, and it's already quite cramped with all my gear here. If I could get a compact color laser MFD within the same dimensions as my current Brother inkjet, I'd switch in a heartbeart. Most of the compact laser printers I've seen are either monochrome, or don't include form-feed scanning, or have some or the other shortcomings.

[-] crashoverride@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Initial cost as well. If you only print very small amount, you're not going to spend couple hundred bucks on the laser printer and then 100 or so bucks on a cartridge for it if you're not going to print often

[-] Dark_Arc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The thing is since inkjet printers dry out you spend way more on cartridges over time. Sure toner is more expensive, but you but it way less frequently.

[-] StarAD@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

Yep just replaced the black toner on my 10+ year old brother. $16 dollar for an off brand.

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