@arstechnica The only good thing I have to say about HP is it works well on Linux.
I make infrequent prints and gave up on my HP when it needed a new ink cartridge every dozen pages of text ($2 a page is not a good deal). It always runs out during something critical (like driver's license or registration prints).
@arstechnica There was a time where buying an HP printer was a smart move: directly supported on most OSes, using documented standards, not relying on proprietary software.
This is long gone.
I sometimes wonder if those ink programs make financial sense, but with reported margins growing: no, definitively not.
Never buy a product that’s proud to lock you in, if you can avoid it.
(That’s kind of funny to be typed on an Apple device. 🙄 Good thing I can avoid buying printers…)
@arstechnica They really do have some serious nerve. They have been the absolute WORST at all this. I'm pretty sure they were actually the first at it all in fact. I can certainly say that of all the brands I had used over the years, the HP printers were the first and the worst about things like refusing to print plain text if a color ran out (and wasting color ink on plain text in the first place btw) and adding chips to cartridges that "verify" they are first party and etc.
@arstechnica I would never, in a million years buy an #HP#printer. Specially not an #inkjet printer. HP is an evil company and needs to go fuck itself.
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