HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

  • Gogo SempaiEnglish
    60·
    1 year ago

    Never buying HP printers again, not after I got a Brother one last year. It works OOTB even with linux and there’s no such lockdown bullshit.

      • Gogo SempaiEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Damn 20 years?! That’s a commendable vouch for Brother.

      • exiva@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        My brother hl-2070n from like, 2006-2007 is still going strong. Drivers aren’t in macOS anymore, but the generic one works fine. I think I’ve only replaced the toner once, maybe twice since i got it. They are excellent printers, fuck hp.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        HP small business printers are almost as bad as their home printers.

        Around 2006, I started at a company it had a couple of small business MFPs. I spent more time fixing the printers then they spent printing on them. I ended up talking them into a couple of Enterprise class MFPs They were fantastic but we spent several grand on printers. It’s kind of a shame we don’t print so much, but we scan to email and fax a lot and it was worth it to have something that just works all the time.

        I kind of regret not going with brother at this point though we probably could have gotten away much cheaper.

    • Techmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      You would never know it from the brand name, but Brother is a Japanese company, and the Japanese are known for making elegant, well made, and easy to use stuff. Konica Minolta is also Japanese and makes pretty good stuff, but for a basic printer I prefer Brother. And don’t bother with inkjet, get a Brother all in one laser printer, and you’ll have a very reliable machine that isn’t expensive to operate. The ink won’t dry up if you don’t use it, and the drivers aren’t constantly trying to sell you anything.

    • Kancept@mastodon.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      @gogosempai @stopthatgirl7 I finally got rid of my parallel port Brother a year or so ago. Used a parallel>USB>Ethernet adapter with it. It had replaced my HP Laserjet ages ago. There was nothing wrong with it other than getting harder to get drums for it. Got another old Brother to replace it. Linux and Mac have zero issues with it nor did they need extra drivers. Something nice about conforming to standards.