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I found a simple workaround too — not buying HP printers. Nor other HP products.
by ninth_ant 3y ago
I found a simple workaround too — not buying HP printers. Nor other HP products.
- nicce 3y agoThe method, which is guaranted to work always! And you might even see the ink level.
- fuzzy2 3y agoThat’s the “correct” direct action of course. However, other printer brands are ever hard at work to copy HP’s advances. So when buying a printer, make sure to research in depth.
- grayhatter 3y agodo they actually have any advances worth their intentional maliciousness?
- hedora 3y agoThey are currently being manufactured, and HP occasionally acquires superior competitors, then adds this crap to their existing models’ firmware. I guess that’s an “advance” in their ability to extract rent from 30 year old IP.
- loaph 3y agoI think fuzzy2 was saying other companies want to copy HPs maliciousness and also lock down their own cartridges. "advances" was referring to that maliciousness.
- Andrex 3y agoI've heard that it's pointless to research, just go with Brother.
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- nikanj 3y agoI’ve followed this advice for years, with a 100% success rate
- aezart 3y agoI've had bad luck with third-party toner cartridges on my Brother printer. Eventually it just stop detecting them at all.
- barbariangrunge 3y agoCertain newer brother printers are doing some of the things people hate about HP. According to some Reddit threads I saw last month
- yencabulator 3y agoThat used to be true (just like it used to be true about HP, just a lot further back). Here's Brother starting to be evil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
- TacticalCoder 3y agoI own several HP LaserJet, including the 4M+ "upgraded" with more memory / fonts / an ethernet adapter etc. Amazing machines for the time. So I'm an "old HP printers" fan. And yet I'd never ever buy anything from HP. FWIW I'm very happy with Brother. We've got several Brother laser printers and "laser printer + scanner" and we're very happy with these. Zero problem. HP fell really low.
- wongarsu 3y ago"Buy a laser printer" is maybe the best workaround. Preferably a slightly older one. Inkjet printers have little competition (3 manufacturers that hold the patents) and are sold in a "give away the razor, sell the blades" type of deal. This is creeping into some of the laser printers lately, and of course there's still differences between brands, but if you pick up a random inkjet printer and a random laser printer you will have far less trouble with the laser printer.
- barbariangrunge 3y agoMy hp laser printer is unusable right now. I can’t get it to print anything consistently. A week later, it sometimes prints half of what I asked it to print
- 2Gkashmiri 3y agoI own an HP 5850 inktank printer that stats show I've printed 28k pages and around 4k scans. You just buy a bottle and pour it in the reservoir. No chips, no updates. No firmware. It does have the cleaning head issue that jams and says you only can do it 3 times which I suspect is based on number of pages printed and not actual health of head but not sure.
- accrual 3y agoI agree on the Brother laser point. I picked one up for $160 new, just a nice compact black and white laser printer with wireless. It has a simple HTTP status page and all my wired and wireless devices can print to it without issue. Fast, too - it's usually done before I get to the printer.