Besides the profit maximization, a printer which requires internet access is a very bad * STUPID idea ....
Computer: Document -> application -> print driver -> lan -> printer *
-> lan -> broadband/internet -> hp services -> back to printer.Getting permission to use your appliance first and then the parts are checked over for every print.
Just noticed John Lewis promoting this bullshit on their website:
https://www.johnlewis.com/content/hp-plus-smart-printingSMART PRINTER (that doesn't print without a connection to HP... stupid.)
READY WHEN YOU ARE
A cloud-connected HP⁺ printer is smarter (because it IS smarter NEVERMIND HOW none of your business how it works... it is smarter than you stupid consumers will ever be and more human than you and has feelings that upset it if you use third party cartridges) —it keeps itself up to date, secure, and ready to print from virtually anywhere at any time. ¹ ⁶ ⁷
What if the broadband is not ready?
Joke: HP+ printer is human and can think for itself and for all of you.
¹ Ready when you are: Improved printer connectivity utilizing Smart Driver and Print/Scan Doctor technology in the HP⁺ system, *versus HP consumer printers without HP⁺.
* A printer without HP+: Plug in cable, install driver and print. No stupid app, no account, no sign in, no broadband, no dependency from HP.
HP+ is the smarter printing system * that thinks ahead (UTTER BULLSHIT) so your printer is ready when you are1 (what if no broadband), more secure (for them that you don't use 3rd part ink cartridges), more productive, and more sustainable than ever. (Look at us we're green and will save the planet)
Choose HP+ and get 6 months of Instant Ink5 and one extra year of HP warranty.12*
*Choose to activate HP+ at printer set up. Requires ongoing internet connection (cancels out "ready when you are"), set up of an HP account and use of only Original HP Ink or Toner for the life of the printer.
* The only "intelligence" is what they set and have it do.
So they try and make it look "intelligent" and the customer stupid into buying it with the marketing materials and all those buzzwords that it does this and that and saves the planet and forests.
Buzzworld bullshit: Driver and Print Scan Doctor technology, cloud-connected, SMART PRINTER, smarter, HP+, SMART APP, intelligent.