You are a fine person. This is a rarity any more.
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consumer protection agency.
the vendor lock in, and false advertising of overall cost and lifetime shouldn’t be permitted.
( i’m assuming the eu market is just as bad as in the us. but it probably has a better chance of being fixed there first then here )
I love my Brother monochrome laserjet, and since I’m nearing 70, I imagine it will be the last printer I’ll ever have to buy.
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Heidelberg opened their UK HQ in Brentford when I was 15 - used to love peering in the window at a full newspaper-scale printing setup in the showroom.
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BlockquoteScrew Photoshop and everything else Adobe makes. It’s another subscription scam from top to bottom.
Well, it is now. I used to use the “lite” version for creating little icons and perfume labels, but it is no longer supported by the latest software update for my Macbook Air. And I always hated the full version of Photoshop, and as you said, it’s a scam now.
No company is going to rewrite their firmware to remove the USB stack.
We don’t have to. We leave the stack in place but call the module init routine (to activate the port) only if the feature-set vector includes USB. Other features in that vector are duplex printing, higher speeds, and maybe even color.
Source: I spent decades writing printer firmware, including several USB stacks.
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Not all heroes wear capes.
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Buy a 7-color Epson and gift it to some nutball kid(?) or art school who likes printing full-color art better than buying a glass or metal print over the interwebs. Maybe throw in some bespoke colors from that company that makes non-Vantablack vantablack and fluorescent colors (but not room-temp. fluorescents or nanodot colors yet afaik.)
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Well, before you print in 3D in outer space using your mind. You’ll be “darned if HP didn’t put a virtual sticker where my colon used to be” and all.
PPK> Pixma 2 just prints, [no drying out!]
…and you don’t have to keep the Canon Pixma 2 in a Canon Humidity-Control Crystal Pyramid? (To print rarely and yet have it work?) That’s surprising and cool!
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The epson eco tank printers are amazing. I’ve had mine for like 4 years and only recently had to refill the black ink. I must have gone through half a dozen reams of paper in that time. The color tanks are still going strong!
Mine works over wifi. I don’t THINK it’s sending anything to the cloud??
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Better yet, don’t get a printer at all. I realized at some point that I hardly ever needed to print something, and on the few occasions I do I can just do it at work, at a store or at a library. Got rid of my shitty inkjet and my life instantly improved.
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HP is using AI to scan every uploaded doc for info they can user for a form of insider trading, same as LinkedIn.
That’s it. The Feds and the SEC need to shut this shit down.
Source?
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My deep suspicion of a corporation insisting that they need every single document on servers they can access, when it is absolutely not required for the functioning of the printer. In other words, my butt.
They will gain access to legal forms, corporate filings, team memos and on and on, all filled in with info that they have no right to, but somehow, for some reason, they insist they do.
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Abso-freaking-lutely. In college in the 80’s, from what I learned, HP would have been my dream place to get a job. And while Agilent Keysight is still making good test equipment, I think that it would have been heartbreaking to actually work there through all of this.
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What in the world does this “reply” have to do with my comment about my Brother (which I should have mentioned is the Brother HL-L2350DW) ???
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