This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
HP actually has a brilliant business strategy.
First get a huge customer base via cheap ass product
Remove the customers who care about quality
Remove the customers who care about reliability
Remove the customers who care about price
Remove the customers who pay attention to their monthly bills
voila, you have like 3 people left who you can charge infinite money for a lump of shit. Infinite profit margins
I've seen a lot of recommendations for Brother, I want to add one for Ricoh.
I bought a B/W laser printer from Ricoh (213w IIRC) a decade ago for under 40 bucks and a new generic, no-name Amazon toner refill for 25 like 5 years ago. Printed thousands of pages, just sitting in a corner under the stairs.
Bonus: it uses Wi-Fi (so anyone in the house can print) and is compatible with generic PCL drivers in Linux.
You know why all of the printer companies are so shitty? It's because they're in the business of selling printers. That's why they break and cost so much to maintain. You know why the sewing machine company sells printers that work? Because they accidentally let some of their sewing machine engineers make printers.
Damn. I don't print much, but I did get my HP printer dirt cheap. Wish there was some sort of hack around this.
in the year of our lord below 2023, it is so easy to just go to a print shop the 0.5 times per year you have to print something
... if you live in a city
Exactly. Everyone needs to live in bumfuck nowhere atleast a year or two, just as a personality building exercise.
