I had to buy a printer recently. I intentionally went through all the information i could to find out which manufacturers pull this trick and bought their competitor instead.
Can you share what competitor you bought and some of your findings?
I didn’t have a wide array of choices, as I had a selection of printers in front of me at a brick and mortar store, but I went with the Brother HL-L2325DW. They offer a subscription (I don’t mind an optional convenience and monetization method) but they don’t disable your printer or force you to buy it.
It came with a full sized toner cartridge at about 3,000 pages compared to the “demo cartridge” most printers will give you with the unit, and it worked out of the Box with CUPS and Linux, and was supported by Brother for Windows and Mac.
Wildly enough there was a Linux utility too from Brother, but I didn’t need it.
+1 for Brother HL printers. 2 toner bars got me through 3 years of nursing school.
If I need something printed in color, I’ll just let a professional do it.And it’s extremely easy. Upload the PDF, wait for your mail. Thanks. The last time I needed something printed in colour was years ago, and the money and hassle I saved myself by buying a monochrome laser printer isn’t offset by this one print job I had to pay for.
They’ve got color laser printers too, just bought a HL-L3290CDW last week to replace my roommate’s cheap Canon printer that I got tired troubleshooting every time we needed to print something. Absolute monster of a print device: color laser printer+scanner+copier+fax machine and a seamless printing process to boot.
I got curious how that works, thanks for piquing my curiosity.
How to bypass HP instant shite
Idk if this is working, try if you have some fresh cartidges
Can’t believe this is legal… is there seriously a subscription model even if you’ve bought a printer? Does this happen with all hp printers?
I’m wondering if there’s a open source firmware for printers like openwrt for routers
Edit: typo
is there a printer that ISN’T a scam???
Laser printers. HP has been trash forever. I honestly look down on people who still buy inkjet printers. It shows they have no ability to think about future costs.
I have an old canon pixma MG 25505 Printer/Scanner combo i bought for £15 on facebay
I have a cartidge refiller kit i bought on ebay for like £10.
I’m set for all my printing or scanning needs for the foreseeable future
