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How many folks out there got burned by HP products when they were hip-deep in that step 3 step 4 zone of "strip-mine your own brand reputation selling cheap cra
by Pxtl 5y ago
How many folks out there got burned by HP products when they were hip-deep in that step 3 step 4 zone of "strip-mine your own brand reputation selling cheap crap"?
- civilized 5y agoMaybe I'm revealing my youth here, but... when was HP good?
- tigershark 5y agoDo you have any non HP printer from 20 years ago still working as expected?
- roland35 5y agoNot 20, but my 10 year old HP color laser is working as well as new!
- buescher 5y agoI have an opening price point Brother laser printer from about 2002 whose drum is on its last toner cartridge worth of wear. I’ve only used it lightly since I stopped contracting about fifteen years ago though.
- SturgeonsLaw 5y agoI have a Fuji Xerox colour laser printer bought in 2005 still running the same as it ever has
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- addaon 5y agoMy ImageWriter still works, although my ImageWriter II gave up the ghost a decade or two ago.
- gh02t 5y agoHP was legendary in electronic test equipment and early computers, calculators etc. Look on Ebay for HP branded power supplies or multimeters, for instance, and you'll see that they still command very high prices. And it's not collectors buying them AFAIK, it's mostly people using them-- even 30 or 40 year old gear. They spun off the test equipment division as Agilent (which still exists and is highly respected under then name Keysight) around the time their computing division started to go downhill.
- jdkee 5y agoLaserJet III.
- WWLink 5y agoThis is all true. I always hated their deskjet printers, though. The First one I had was a Deskjet 500 and that thing was a massive turd with very expensive ink cartridges, and no matter how many times I cleaned the rollers, it'd still have issues not being able to feed paper. Shit design.
- toast0 5y agoI had a 600 something C that was pretty decent, and my wife had a 720C that we abandoned because drivers got too fussy around Windows 8.1ish (the 64-bit driver in windows update didn't work, but if you got the driver from 64-bit xp, it would work). The color had stopped working, but not bad for 15+ years of service.
- CSSer 5y agoHas there ever been a good printer though? If there has I'm either out of the loop or sad that I'm not old enough to remember it.
- nonesuchluck 5y agoI sympathize with this sentiment, I hate printers. Worked in a copy shop for a time. Hate em. But there has been at least 1 good printer, and HP made it: - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_5 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_5 Also, 9-pin dot matrix printers were workhorses.
- dhdc 5y agoBefore the 2000s or the Agilent spin-off, HP was the undisputed king in electronics test equipments. Their flagship multimeter HP3458a, launched more than 30 years ago, is still the standard in metrology. And Keysight (spin-off from Agilent) is still making them with little to no significant modifications over the years. They also made some great RPN calculators.
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoAnd used 3458As (in working condition) tend to go for between $5000-7000 these days. The HP ones, not the newer Agilent or Keysight ones.
- flyinglizard 5y agoVery entertaining video explaining a bit about the HP3548a: https://youtu.be/upTgM_S5rAQ https://youtu.be/upTgM_S5rAQ
- AvocadoPanic 5y agoBefore Carly Fiorina.
- oldgradstudent 5y agoA repeat offender. She also had a stint at Lucent.
- djbusby 5y agoLaserJet 4 (20 years old?) still runs.
- rasz 5y agoThere are tons of great innovation coming out of HP pre 2000. Do you enjoy using optical mice? Thats HP.
- sliken 5y agoHeh, back in the day they made the best calculators, test equipment, disk drives, workstations (early PA-risc snakes), etc. Even their printers were a unique technology using an HP print engine that was wonderfully durable. Then they killed off the calc division, not because it wasn't profitable, but because it wasn't as profitable as ink. Years later they decided to upgrade the calculator (TI had won the market in the meantime), instead of doing something innovative they bought a new arm chip and ran an emulator of the old chip and used the old software stack with minimum polish under the emulator. Not surprisingly Texas Instruments laughed all the way to the bank. Their laser printers were starved as well, again not as profitable as selling ink for ink jets. So the print engine was killed off and now uses the same print engine that you get in a Dell printer. Which was sad, they weren't nearly as durable. It was sad to watch
- tigershark 5y agoI don’t feel burned honestly.. A HP printer that I have is probably 8 years old, another one is about 20 years old and they are both still working as expected. (The 20 years old now feels slower than my grandmother drawing, but it was expected at the time)