"Never own a printer again."

HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::“Never own a printer again.”

    • methodicalaspectEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Dev One laptop isn’t bad, got one on eBay for less than half of its original price and it’s a solid machine. Other than that, HP can chew glass.

      • @grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6•9 months ago

        I will refuse to buy anything HP, even used stuff, purely out of spite for them pulling this shit.

        • methodicalaspectEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          Im at peace knowing that i bought it off the previous owner and not from the company, but that is completely fair.

          • @grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2•9 months ago

            Okay, I might make an exception for antique tech from the '90s or earlier, back when HP was actually good (e.g. a LaserJet 4, an HP-28C calculator, the function generator somebody posted in another thread yesterday, etc.). That’s very unlikely, though.

        • @Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          Their OfficeJet Pro is $13 a month and offers next business day replacement. If I were to purchase out of spite, it would be with a debit/temporary card with exactly $13 on it, and claim a replacement for defective printer (since it cant print offline). I wonder if HP would still try these things if each “customer” costed them substantially more in shipping back and forth, or having to write off two “office” printers for $13.

    • kratoz29English
      1•9 months ago

      Was HP any good ever?

      I remember disliking all of their Laps when I was a teen, but maybe it was a bad purchase by my parents too…