It’s a well-known secret that inkjet ink is being kept at artificially high prices, which is why many opt to forego ‘genuine’ manufacturer cartridges and get third-party ones inst…
    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      42·
      2 months ago

      Also, don’t buy inkjet.

      My first inkjet was an HP bubblejet, about 1994. My last was some garbage about 2000. Since then I’ve refused to own one.

      My 1997 laserjet (that I bought used in 2008) just died. I bougt a color laser on Craigslist for $50. And my current BW laser is a 2014 HP, that just got it’s second cartridge.

      You can’t give me an inkjet.

      • x4740N@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago
        • Buy an ecotank printer

        They actually make their money by having the printer be more expensive but it saves you in the long-run

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      My HP is good, but it’s one of the liquid ink ones instead of cartridges. Got for PPS support so I new it would just print things on my network.

      Wish I had a open source option though. And or at least a manufacturer that was possibly using slave labor (made in China and all that).

  • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    2 months ago

    You can have my Brother laser printer when you pry it from my cold dead hands, and because it’s not an HP, I’m sure it will still work when you do.

  • Quazatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    1 month ago

    Remember when HP made great printers? I still have an old HP Laserjet 1100 in use. When that one dies, I don’t think I’ll be buying any other printer.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    I’ve had the same HP printer since around 2016? Don’t use it much, but it comes in handy when it’s needed. First time I ran out of ink I shopped around for the best deal and ended up with some other ink brand. Dumb me decided to update the printer when I got the ink. Boom it denied me the ability to use it now… it took me a few hours of trying to find exactly how to downgrade the firmware back to a previous version so I can use the dam ink I brought! I was thrilled when that worked. I then set it’s IP to static and removed the gateway. Now, no matter what it can’t reach home and know it needs an update at all. I almost can’t wait till the day this stops working so I can invest my money into whatever few brands that don’t screw you.

        • Static_Rocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Not sure about the Eco tank line, but the smart tank line botched the IPP interface. Ink level reporting is always wrong and printer status is regularly wrong. Exposed settings are limited to push people to the app.

          • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            I had to mess around with my ET and compile a driver (nothing pre-packaged for aarch64) in order to get CUPS to play nice with it. The network implementation is garbage so, it’s been nice having a pi print server.

  • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    I wonder how much more it would cost to just donate or throw away your printer every time it runs out of ink and buy a new one. Printers are sold at a major loss to lock you into their ink. It might be worth the expense to know your costing these pricks money.