You already barely own your printer, anyway, but is renting it better?

Friends don’t let their friends buy HP.

  • glovecraft@infosec.pubEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The subscription, like HP’s recent ad campaign promoting its printers as “made to be less hated,” trades on the idea that printers are frustrating commodities. The company’s configurator page mentions bonuses like “continuous printer coverage” and “next-business-day printer replacement,”

    Our printers are unreliable pieces of absolute shit guys. But if you do the subscription we’ll replace your shitty broken rental printer next day. Never worry that you can’t print when you need to print. Mindblowing.

    Just make reliable printers that work, dumbasses.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Just make reliable printers that work, dumbasses.

      Again, you mean. My LJ4 was sold at 20 years old, more due to toner scarcity than any real problem.

      • SacralPlexus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Nailed it. I currently have an HP Laserjet 2100 for home printing and it is around 20 years old and going strong. Now you’ve made me think I should maybe order some toner ahead…

    • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      If they made reliable printers that worked, they wouldn’t have a business because everyone would have a reliable printer that worked and hp would have no one left to sell printers to. The problem has always been the shortcomings of shareholder capitalism.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Just 6 months ago replaced my 1996 IBM Laser printer.

      And it probably still works, keeps saying “paper jam” though I’ve cleaned it out. Probably a bad sensor/switch. I’ll fix it some time.

    • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
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      8 months ago

      “made to be less hated,”

      They still want to be hated, just less.

      Who’s the halfwit that came up with that line lmao