'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,

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
    514·
    10 months ago

    Why would anyone buy such a printer? You could just go to a print shop at that point. Though honestly that’s already what I do so maybe it’s for the hikikomori or something. I don’t know why the home printer still exists in this day and age.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      501·
      10 months ago

      If I’m expected to pay a subscription that means every single aspect of the experience has to be outsourced to HP. And I’m including set up, cleaning and maintenance, consumables, and sending a man out to clear my paper jams for me, too. That’s how it works at the print shop – I put in money, they hand me prints completed to my specifications. Whatever happens in between those two events is not my problem.

      But of course that won’t be the case, so they can fuck off.

      • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
        13·
        10 months ago

        This is relatively common in the office world. Lease the copier/printer and it comes with free maintenance or replacement. Complete overkill for home printers though.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      10 months ago

      Or go-to your local library, ours charges an exorbitant fee of a penny/page and gives $2 for printing for free for new library card holders lmao

        • shadow@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          Libraries are fuckin rad. Everyone should go to their local library if they exist locally. Just going in and out the door helps their counts.

          • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            My local library has a maker space with a few 3d printers and a laser cutter you can book time on. It’s pretty sweet (if you can find a time slot).

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      I don’t know why the home printer still exists in this day and age.

      Legal shit.

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        Most of those reasons are why a print company is needed, there’s very little about why I need a printer at home.

      • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        It’s been close to 5 years since I needed to print something at work. At home, more like 20 years.

        • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I haven’t ironed my clothes in 25 years but with the power of imagination I can manage to grasp why other people might want to have an iron in their home.

          • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            Oh absolutely. There definitely are valid use cases for printers just like there are valid ways to use an ice pick. If you need to use huge blocks of ice for something, you really want to own your very own ice pick. Other people might not need one as much as you do.

    • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Well, crafts is why I just bought my first 2 inkjets in probably 20 years. Epson Ecotanks - actually make inkjet reasonable. I use it to do prints for heat transfer and for dye sublimation.

      Then there’s the patterns for people who crochet or knit.

      And occasionally forms - like passport renewal forms you have to mail in still for some reason, and you live a 30 minute drive from a printshop so having a B&W laser helps.

      That said, I haven’t recommended an HP since the 1990s. There’s nothing I’m aware of they do better than brother in laser or epson in inkjet for home use (or Xerox in the business market).

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      10 months ago

      Because I need to print at home, that’s why it exists.

      What an ignorant take. There are people who’s life functions differently than yours.

      I just replaced my 1996 Lexmark laser. I don’t recall ever replacing the toner, perhaps once. It just worked, for 27 years, and I can probably fix it.

      I now have a newer wifi b/w laser. Why should I go somewhere to print something? It would take a minimum of 30 minutes to do so, and cost $2-$3. My time is worth more than wasting it on getting something printed.

      And wtf is hikki-whatever?

    • prof@infosec.pubEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      My immediate thought. And no worries about ink drying up and whatever else might break suddenly. Just pay a shop if you want printing as a service.