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What is it with printers and (pardon the pun) shady practices?
by HPsquared 1y ago
What is it with printers and (pardon the pun) shady practices?
- gostsamo 1y agodiminishing market and margins call for extreme pressure to monitize whatever is left of the user base.
- bigfatkitten 1y agoThese aren’t commodity office printers. They’re UV inkjets, which are used to print artwork onto objects and cost many thousands of dollars.
- raverbashing 1y agoSo it sounds more like TDD (technobro driven development)
- bolognafairy 1y agoI assure you that “sneaking spyware into installers” predates “tech bros”
- Avamander 1y agoNo it's your average hardware vendor wanting to spend the smallest possible amount of money on software.
- M95D 1y agoThere's only some printer companies. I'm using Epson inkjet and I never had any problems. Drivers are very good too.
- jpc0 1y agoTheir inktank line is quite scummy tbh… Catch filter that can be trivially replaced in the field, firmware needs to be reset by an authorised repair center (yes there are workarounds but they aren’t official) Also on windows their “drivers” install a ton of crap with them, even when you install the most basic version in their installer. When in fact they have go a driver which does exactly what it should and only installs a driver but then they don’t get that sweet spyware installed on your machine. Never mind their network printer driver just failing to print half the time. Prints fine from my phone, on the same network right next to my PC but from my PC, FU. Epson are not innocent in the chaos that is printers.
- stop50 1y agoTo be frank: every consumer printer "driver" installs bloat.