Malware threat from third-party cartridges nothing compared to threat to HP's bottom line
    • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      For now anyway. Enshittification strikes too many products eventually.

    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m just now having to replace my brother printer (HL-2170W) I bought in 06, because the NIC is toast.

      The printer still works great, but duplex printing sure would be nice.

  • helmet91@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Buying HP products is bad investment.

    I only had the chance to two of their inkjet printers and one of their office laser printers, plus an elitebook laptop. In short, all of them suck.

    Much better (to me, the best) alternatives, that I can safely say are good investments: Canon for inkjet printers, ThinkPad T and P series for laptops. Those are quality products. Unfortunately I don’t have any experience with other office laser printers, so I cannot recommend one.

    Edit: specified which series of ThankPads are still good.

    • DrMango@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      ThinkPad is now Lenovo just FYI. They were acquired some years ago and now Lenovo makes and sells the ThinkPad line of hardware

  • pepperprepper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have always had a conspiracy theory that the ink management requirements are set by national security input. All printers have a yellow dot pattern added to every print to identify the printer by a forensics team. I wonder if this is why the ink landscape is so shifty. They want to make sure those dots get printed. My thought on why you can’t print black and white when you are only missing colored ink.