Imagine working high up in this company and not wanting to jump off a bridge every time you get off of work. Psychos.
Do not buy inkjet printers, it is a scam! I dumped mine long ago even with after market ink, it is just a hassle to upkeep it.
They used to not be, in the early years of ink jet there were some fantastic ones.
One of them accompanied me through school where I would print full color on 1 meter long heavy grain paper like it was nothing. It worked so good and never clogged even on not official ink
I have always had a conspiracy theory that the ink management requirements are set by national security input. All printers have a yellow dot pattern added to every print to identify the printer by a forensics team. I wonder if this is why the ink landscape is so shifty. They want to make sure those dots get printed. My thought on why you can't print black and white when you are only missing colored ink.
The conspiracy theory falls apart with black only printers. 🤷
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I'm not an investment, I'm a single purchase customer. I buy a thing from you and then I get on with my life.
HP is a bad investment
“My business model is making everyone else responsible to make my business successful”
HP wants to pay employees in company scrip.
How has HP not gone out of business? Their products are overpriced pieces of trash.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The PC and print biz is currently facing a class-action lawsuit (from 2.42 in the video below) regarding allegations that the company deliberately prevented its hardware from accepting non-HP branded replacement cartridges via a firmware update.
When asked about the case in a CNBC interview, Lores said: "I think for us it is important for us to protect our IP.
And what we are doing is when we identify cartridges that are violating our IP, we stop the printers from work[ing]."
Lores said of customers who use a third-party cartridge: "In many cases, it can create all sorts of issues from the printer stopping working because the ink has not been designed to be used in our printer, to even creat[ing] security issues.
HP has long banged the drum [PDF] about the potential for malware to be introduced via print cartridges, and in 2022, its bug bounty program confirmed that third-party cartridges with reprogrammable chips could deliver malware into printers.
Sadly, Lores's protestations were somewhat undermined by the admission that the company's business model depends – at least in part – on customers selecting HP supplies for their devices.
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How small and shriveled this man’s soul must be. He should take a lesson from Ferdinand the Bull, and enjoy smelling the flowers for a while.
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