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Because in reality, printing is really not needed in most homes given the advent of paperless billing. I was still sneaking my essential documents to the work printer for many years, and even at the height of the pandemic, I was free printing at the library.
HP clearly wants to milk any small businesses for what they have with this, larger companies are already leasing the printers from the OG nickel and dimer: Xerox.
People lease those huge pieces of shit? Holy shit what a racket.
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I print a lot of shipping labels from home, but I use an old brother printer with a USB B plug onto old FedEx labels that I bought a ream of almost 20 years ago. When the labels run out or the printer breaks, I will just buy a cheap thermal printer.