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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... (www.pcgamer.com)
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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company's CEO,

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (4 children)

  1. Buy Brother, better printers without all this subscription garbage.

  2. How long before an 'open source' printer hots the market and terrifies this idiot CEO?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If he hasn't been scared by Xerox, Brother, and Epson, he won't be scared by a FLOSS printer. At this point, the only people who buy HP printers are those who don't even google it and remember hearing the laserjets were good circa 1995.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Maybe so, but there are people who aren't scared of bears and get mauled to death. If he really is that dumb he won't hear the impending doom.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

i am desperately praying for a pineprinter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Keep waiting on open source printers. They are not easy. Even 300dpi monochrome takes a lot of precision, and that's not particularly impressive. Get even smaller and add color mixing? No.

Open source plotter, OTOH, could happen. I think there are some projects out there already.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

OkiData makes good business class printers too. The upfront cost is high, but the cost per page is low, so if you're printing high volume then it's cheaper overall.