'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,

  • diffusive@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    11 months ago

    How much I would love if EU pulled a USB-C on printer ink/toner.

    “All printers must be compatible with one of these X possible formats of ink/toner. Lockdown is forbidden too”

    Sure the printers would be more expensive but I am sure we would see an incredible improvement in quality and decrease in ink/toner cost

    • PatchesEnglish
      20·
      11 months ago

      Sure the printers would be more expensive but I am sure we would see an incredible improvement in quality and decrease in ink/toner cost

      Probably because everyone but Brother would step out of the market.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      “This is the ink we use. Everyone use the same ink. Cheaper, easier, better for everyone.”

      “But sir, that sounds a lot like something Communists would do!”

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Long time Brother Laser Gang member here, and toner cost is not an issue. Averaged over the last decade it’s cost me like a couple bucks per year.

    • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      How much I would love for America to stop letting it’s corporations get away with these things so we won’t have to wait for the EU