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But half of their modern printers require a monthly paid subscription to even function. They need to stop doing that.
people need to stop buying HP printers
They did.
They now rent them through a monthly paid subscription.
zing!
so shitty, though
The ink plan isn’t required, you can still use regular cartridges.
But they do require you create an account and register the printer before it will function with their newer consumer printers.
Can we sue for false advertising
He smiled as he typed.
‘Our printers are made to be less hated.’
“Lol,” he said. “Lmao.”
Less hated, more loathed.
Despised even.
Does anyone at HP even use their own printers?
Depends if there’s a camera nearby or not.
“They’re gone? Bring back the Brother.”
Probably not the inkjets. The lasers have been good. Old ones were eternal.
Lmao. Is this real? Why is less in italics?
Well, I don’t think they could be any more hated.
They could talk.
HP makes my most hated printers.
You’re not wrong, and imma let you finish, but Epson edges-out HP by just a hair imho.
So…it’s not an HP printer?
My guess if you buy a HP printer, they send a Brother laser printer, which is going to make consumers much happier.
Subhead: “apparently they’re being serious” - The Register knows what people think!
This is a good opportunity to ask if there’s a better printer company whose printers we should buy instead.
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou!
In addition to Brother, Ecotank style printers (printers that refill from ink bottles instead of cartridges) are pretty good even if they come from usually shittier printer companies. The ink is extremely cheap and there’s no way to prevent people from using different brands of ink bottles.
You have to pay more up front for the printer, but that’s because they’re sold with the idea that the printer company makes its money upfront instead of overcharging you for ink later.
Just adding to this, toner printers are ideal if you’re printing only a few items per year. If ink dries, it makes for some intensely frustrating issues. I’m 90% of the way to finding HP’s CEO and bringing my clogged nozzle printer down on their stupid face.
Thanks!!
People often suggest Brother. I have two Brother printers and they are…tolerable. They are much better than HP, but that bar is very low. I think all printers kind-of suck. Lasers are better than inkjet for most uses, and much more affordable than they used to be.
I kind of feel like we haven’t seen a significant advancement in home printer technology in a long time (except for 3d printing, but that’s a very different animal).
Hahaha. Now this explains why MSoft have started pushing hp smart app. Absolute scum bags them both. Wonder how much MSoft accepted to push that software out?
So they recognize that people hate their printers.
lol, lmao even
This is the best summary I could come up with:
If vegging in front of the idiot box is something you do to decompress after an afternoon spent fantasizing about going “Office Space” on your workplace’s HP facilities, we suppose you might have caught a rare telly spot commissioned by the PC and printing giant.
Which may come as news to HP’s long-suffering users who still, for whatever reason, need to brand mushed-up trees with corporate nonsense despite this alleged digital age.
The three ads touch upon a spectrum of negative emotions that will be highly relatable to those who have ever tried to print something at home or work – sorrow, anger, despair – and all end with extreme and cathartic human-on-printer violence.
The Register wonders if the hapless worker’s hatred would be softened somewhat if he had attended the recent UBS Global Technology conference, where HP chief financial officer Marie Myers gave a speech on how the company’s Printing division margin has risen from 14.8 percent in fiscal 2020 to 18.9 percent in fiscal 2023.
The final spot sees a young gentleman, sweat beading on his brow, trying to improve the Wi-Fi signal to his printer by hoisting the beast above his head.
This vulture long ago rid himself of printers – which, incidentally, were made by HP – and now lives a euphoric existence in the metaverse.
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