• FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I know a better solution! Just don’t have this kind of subscription! It’s wasteful, takes advantage of consumers, and it’s difficult to understand. It’s totally inappropriate to sell a printer to someone and limit / control their use of it with a subscription. The world of printing at home with HP needs a reboot, restarting again from: buy the printer and the supplies for it, print the things. This is why I’ve been using printers that are not HP since forever. In the old days, HP ink was the most expensive to buy but the printers were very cheap, the cheapest you could find at any store. This company has spent decades and decades controlling the ink and trying to get people to pay for the ink. It all started with being the cheapest printer at the store and being the most expensive ink at the store. 30 years or so later (plus or minus) we have this insanity. I like my setup for home printing. My printer, my ink, my paper. I print all I want.

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      1 year ago

      It’s optional. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. You can’t complain because the service works as described.

      IMO this subscription model only makes sense if you have a business and print a lot of pages per month. For a normal user it doesn’t make much sense.