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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In grad school I picked up a free used HP LaserJet. It had Ethernet, and could use generic/off brand cartridges. Yeah it was big and noisy but it was an awesome workhorse and it Just Worked (with out-of-the-box CUPS/Linux support too, IIRC).

How the mighty have fallen.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Imagine working high up in this company and not wanting to jump off a bridge every time you get off of work. Psychos.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do not buy inkjet printers, it is a scam! I dumped mine long ago even with after market ink, it is just a hassle to upkeep it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They used to not be, in the early years of ink jet there were some fantastic ones.

One of them accompanied me through school where I would print full color on 1 meter long heavy grain paper like it was nothing. It worked so good and never clogged even on not official ink

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have always had a conspiracy theory that the ink management requirements are set by national security input. All printers have a yellow dot pattern added to every print to identify the printer by a forensics team. I wonder if this is why the ink landscape is so shifty. They want to make sure those dots get printed. My thought on why you can't print black and white when you are only missing colored ink.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The conspiracy theory falls apart with black only printers. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm not an investment, I'm a single purchase customer. I buy a thing from you and then I get on with my life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

“My business model is making everyone else responsible to make my business successful”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

HP is a bad investment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

HP wants to pay employees in company scrip.

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