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What's a good printer for minimal usage ?
jonovid:
with cheap inkjets is to replace it when it stops working, the whole printer! bin it.
who can be bothered with looking for the cartridge when the local office supplies has a printer sale 2 times a yr.
shapirus:
--- Quote from: jonovid on February 07, 2023, 09:43:52 am ---bin it.
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but don't forget to take it apart and rip the motors and other useful parts from it first.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: rdl on February 07, 2023, 09:13:38 am ---I can't believe people still deal with HP. How quickly we forget. This is the company that remotely disabled printers just because they could when non-OEM ink cartridges were detected.
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I still deal with HP but I'm not part of the crowd that rents a printer through buying the consumables.
tooki:
People dismiss ink/toner subscriptions so readily, but don’t consider that for some usage patterns, they’re actually a really good deal. I’m not saying that they’re the right thing for everyone, but it’s dumb to reject them categorically without even knowing what they do.
tooki:
--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on February 07, 2023, 07:39:42 am ---
--- Quote from: Ranayna on February 06, 2023, 08:14:43 pm ---So, i'd like to play devils advocate here.
Provided you are ok with having the printer connected to the internet and setting up an HP account to use it, you should take a look at an HP instant ink printer. If you *ever* might need to print a photo or something in color, these can be a good deal, if you print very litte.
These printers start at around $50, and the smallest instant ink subscription is $0.99 per month, allowing to print 10 pages per month, and if you do not print, you can collect pages for three months.
The big advantage this has over buying cartridges normally: You do not not need to care that the ink drys up, or gets wasted with cleaning programs. Once your cartridge is near empty, you get a new one.
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Devils advocate indeed:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/02/06/0140238/my-printer-is-extorting-me-complains-subscriber-to-hps-instant-ink-program
--- Quote ---"Nobody told me that if I canceled, then all those cartridges would stop working," complains another owner of an HP printer cited in the article. "I guess this is our future, where your printer ink spies on you."
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”Nobody told me” except for the agreement they actively agreed to when they signed up for the subscription. I mean, come on, as a consumer you have some responsibility to actually know what you agree to, not just blindly go “yeah yeah” and then get annoyed when you got (literally) exactly what you signed up for.
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