"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.”

  • @[email protected]English
    1•9 months ago

    My MiL has this ancient deeply yellowed office grade HP laser printer she dug out as her document printer, it’s a tank and runs like a dream. Found that driver wise it seems to be easier to setup in Linux than windows, I keep meaning to setup a print server for her with an old pi I have…

    That may actually be one of the weirdest issues I’ve ever heard of, were you ever able to figure out why it would only give you 2.5 pages?

    • @MeanEYEEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      Nope. Power cord pull and refusal to use it for a week or so solved the issue. Different one appeared though where it would print 10 copies if you requested one. God forbid you stopped it mid print. Then whenever you decided you needed something else to print it would resume where it left then print your new thing in 3-10 copies.

      Luckily I ran into some open source folk, thank you whoever you are, who mentioned that open source driver is complete for my model and I should just completely remove HPLIP. This solved the issue almost completely. It would get stubborn at waking up from time to time, but printing resumed normally after not using HP software on HP printer. Ended up giving the printer to my brother who was more optimistic than me and I just bought “that one Brother printer everyone has”.