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 …

  • CynBlogger™️
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    611 months ago

    @gogosempai @stopthatgirl7
    I ran my business with two Brother laser printers for 20 years, with NO maintenance problems.

    In the past year, I’ve discarded two new HP printers as they are just crap. And expensive-ink hogs.

    • Gogo Sempai
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      211 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months 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.