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“3rd party ink will give you a computer virus”
What a lying sack of crap that guy is.
If 3rd party ink can give you a computer virus then the printer isn’t built correctly. There’s no reason that should happen.
we sort of see a 20 percent uplift on the value of that customer because you’re locking that person, committing to a longer-term relationship.
Do these people never listen to themselves? Who the hell wants to be “locked”?
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Oh they are human beings. Human beings are capable of this and far worse. Don’t ever forget that.
HP printers: A bad investment in not having your printer break by the 2 year mark
If you get 2 years out of an HP product, you’re doing pretty well.
5 years ago I bought a 10 year old HP Laserjet because I was fed up with every single bubble jet printer’s quality and ink cost. I’m still using the toner that came with it. And I’ve been getting low ink warnings for 3 of those years. Maybe 500 or so pages in that time. I’d never buy a new HP though since they phone home. If you find an old Laserjet I can’t recommend them enough.
Which is sad. The HP LJ4 was a fucking tank back in the day. I used to get them for friends and family, put in an Ethernet card, clean it up, and then it’s print for another decade.
I’m living a mostly printer free lifestyle thanks to this kind of malarkey.
Yup. Just like toll roads, I’ll go out of my way and spend extra effort to avoid printers on principle.
Really makes me appreciate the free printing services at my local public library.
If a company sees me not as a customer, but as a “bad investment”, I think it is time to turn into an even worse investment and in the future buy products from a company that values their customers as human beings.
a company that values their customers as human beings.
Good luck with that
I’d be fine if they just value us as customers, but one should always aim a bit higher.
does spamming job application work
Might give it a try.
I saw their ad for their printer ink that is apparently chipped to stop People from buying third party ink.
They presented it as a means to ‘prevent fraud’ and to ‘protect your business’
From what
From people not buying your overpriced junk? How does you adding what is basically a drm at this point help the consumer combat ‘fraud’?!
Malware. They’re saying that malware imbedded on the cartridge can hop to the printer then onto networks.
Which is why you shouldn’t buy from unknown vendors. But even certified cartridges can be tampered with if you’re getting it from a sketchy source.
But how can malware be in the cartridge in the first place? Because someone in management had the ingenious idea, to put a chip with complex code and access rights in what is supposed to be a simple mechanical part.
Exactly right. The problem was manufactured, in more ways than one.
I like how HP says a big reason to not use 3rd party ink is because they can introduce malware, which is another reason they need to work to make sure you only use HP ink.
However, the security issue is because of the chips they use in order to make sure you only use HP ink.
It seems like to me that HP, HPE and HP Printing have had the most constant and slowest death in the industry and if this article proves anything, it isn’t going to change.
And this is why I don’t buy HP any more. 😅
HP garbage is the real bad investmemt
I don’t buy HP anything & won’t recommend them to anyone either.
I used to work for a laptop repair company. Nothing made me hate HP than having to work on their machines. Dell? Lenovo? Hell, Asus? I’d take ‘em all over an HP any day.
Do we have a new crop of incredulous “Damn, HP printers suck” people again? Welcome, friends.
Watchugonna do, stop selling to us?
This is capitalism.
Spoiled and entitled due to making a monopoly out of their own ecosystem. Why are we still tolerating that?
lol then again most of you are Americans which makes you apple fanboys so obviously you aren’t ready for this message yet
SMDH
