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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... (www.pcgamer.com)
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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company's CEO,

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[–] 45 points 2 years ago (4 children)

  1. Buy Brother, better printers without all this subscription garbage.

  2. How long before an 'open source' printer hots the market and terrifies this idiot CEO?

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If he hasn't been scared by Xerox, Brother, and Epson, he won't be scared by a FLOSS printer. At this point, the only people who buy HP printers are those who don't even google it and remember hearing the laserjets were good circa 1995.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Keep waiting on open source printers. They are not easy. Even 300dpi monochrome takes a lot of precision, and that's not particularly impressive. Get even smaller and add color mixing? No.

    Open source plotter, OTOH, could happen. I think there are some projects out there already.

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