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[–] [email protected] 87 points 10 months ago (27 children)

Ecotank inkjet printer

Yes

They literally can't drm liquid ink that you pour into ink tanks

[–] [email protected] 85 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

Personally I think HP is missing the point focusing on putting drm on inkjet refills, it is only half committing to the business strategy.

The existence of a finished, printed paper begins at the moment of conception when the customer conceives of wanting to print a document. Really every step after that point (including the conception step itself) is monetizable by HP and more importantly rightfully owned as intellectual property of HP that you are technically stealing if you don’t follow through with actually printing the document on an HP printer.

HP is just leaving all of that money on the table, or maybe the printer market is just too heavily regulated for HP to innovate properly in a healthy free market.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The problem is that they can't control open source drivers. They could, however, release a printer that ran on proprietary closed source drivers. But they'd have to spend money on developers to maintain that code whereas right now, drivers are more or less stable and developed for free.

What they could do is require the use of HP printer paper, with embedded RFID or watermarks that would be readable by HP printers. I'm honestly surprised they haven't gone down this road.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Some photo printers do

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