"Never own a printer again."

HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::“Never own a printer again.”

  • @_number8_English
    10•10 months ago

    i had one of the cheapest versions of this plan; it seems nice, but the cheap ones have such low limits that you’re always a bit paranoid to print too freely or joyfully. plus the bullshit how they software lock the ink if you don’t pay and would rather pay shipping / recycling back just so you can’t have it for ‘free’

    • @grueEnglish
      12•10 months ago

      i had one of the cheapest versions of this plan; it seems nice, but…

      LOL, no, it really doesn’t. Even just at first glance, the entire concept of a home user renting a printer is blatantly exploitative and obviously terrible.

    • Captain AggravatedEnglish
      7•10 months ago

      Weird thought, printing “freely or joyfully.”

      I hate printing documents and do everything I can to avoid it, even with my little Epson inkjet that is free of most of that garbage (it does bitch at you if you use off-brand cartridges but will allow it).

      Other than the occasional form or whatever that HAS to be on paper, about the only thing I print is CAD drawings so I can carry them to the wood shop with me. And I’d like to eliminate even that if I could find the right electronic device to run it on, which I’m not sure exists. (I’d like to have an ARM tablet or maybe convertible laptop running desktop Linux and FreeCAD, but there’s some mutual exclusivity in there).

      • @[email protected]English
        1•10 months ago

        (I’d like to have an ARM tablet or maybe convertible laptop running desktop Linux and FreeCAD, but there’s some mutual exclusivity in there).

        Run the FreeCAD on your main machine. Put a remote desktop server on it as well, and run Remmina or some other client on the tablet. Drops the requirements considerably, and should be good enough for the application you have in mind.