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HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::"Never own a printer again."

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[–] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dev One laptop isn’t bad, got one on eBay for less than half of its original price and it’s a solid machine. Other than that, HP can chew glass.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I will refuse to buy anything HP, even used stuff, purely out of spite for them pulling this shit.

[–] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Im at peace knowing that i bought it off the previous owner and not from the company, but that is completely fair.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Okay, I might make an exception for antique tech from the '90s or earlier, back when HP was actually good (e.g. a LaserJet 4, an HP-28C calculator, the function generator somebody posted in another thread yesterday, etc.). That's very unlikely, though.

[–] Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Their OfficeJet Pro is $13 a month and offers next business day replacement. If I were to purchase out of spite, it would be with a debit/temporary card with exactly $13 on it, and claim a replacement for defective printer (since it cant print offline). I wonder if HP would still try these things if each “customer” costed them substantially more in shipping back and forth, or having to write off two “office” printers for $13.