'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award
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Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them all forever!

‘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,

  • silverbax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    2 年前

    1. Buy Brother, better printers without all this subscription garbage.

    2. How long before an ‘open source’ printer hots the market and terrifies this idiot CEO?

    • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      26·
      2 年前

      If he hasn’t been scared by Xerox, Brother, and Epson, he won’t be scared by a FLOSS printer. At this point, the only people who buy HP printers are those who don’t even google it and remember hearing the laserjets were good circa 1995.

      • silverbax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 年前

        Maybe so, but there are people who aren’t scared of bears and get mauled to death. If he really is that dumb he won’t hear the impending doom.

    • Delta_V@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      OkiData makes good business class printers too. The upfront cost is high, but the cost per page is low, so if you’re printing high volume then it’s cheaper overall.

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      Keep waiting on open source printers. They are not easy. Even 300dpi monochrome takes a lot of precision, and that’s not particularly impressive. Get even smaller and add color mixing? No.

      Open source plotter, OTOH, could happen. I think there are some projects out there already.