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HP CEO: Blocking third-party ink from printers fights viruses (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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crossposted from: https://lemmy.blackeco.com/post/383102

His claims are quickly debunked in the article, as the true reason is, obviously, protecting their IP and subscription model

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[โ€“] chaogomu@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Brother printers are great. If only because they don't add all the pointless bullshit add-on "features" that everyone else does.

Brother printers, they're just printers. Nothing more, nothing less.

They also take third party ink.

[โ€“] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago

We're kind of locked in to Lexmark for most of our printers, but I thought Brother printers now disallow 3rd-party ink/toner? Not their fax machines though, and still better than HP...