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04-16-2023, 03:34 PM
TBH, I've had this suspicion about printers in general for a LONG time.
But HP brand seems to be the biggest offender by far.
Maybe it's because it's the brand most people tend to buy since they're a little cheaper than a Brother printer for instance.
Most of the printers I've ever owned have been HP and they've all failed in some way within like a year (MAYBE 2 years) of use.
Not to mention that the new HP printers require access to the internet AND the HP software is absolute pure and total garbage.
The next printer I'm getting is gonna be a Brother.
It's just...
I am not prepared for a Brother printer to fuck up a year into use too.
I think it's a conspiracy, and I think it's fuckin' wrong.
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It seems these bizarre failures are linked to changing the ink.
Changing the ink seems to send a signal to the machine or the software linked to it or both or otherwise...
And it seems to be a machine killer.
I think it's set up to fail after a certain number of ink changes.
It's too coincidental.
This last HP printer I got is made like a cheap piece of junk too, the paper size adjuster arms are chintzy as fuck...
One of them is fucking crooked and doesn't even let the 8.5 x 11 standard paper fit or catch onto the mechanism properly.
It's just all around a horrible machine on every level, and the HP brand requiring connectivity to WiFi has sealed its grave.
Total garbage.
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I wish they still made line printers. You know, the ones that stop when all of the text has been printed and wait until you send more text to it. Today's printers waste paper by using a whole page at once, even if there's just a little text on the page.
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Essentially a brand new printer too, mind you.
Very rarely used.
Used enough to necessitate the changing of the ink ONCE.
Lightly used.
Has sat in the same area of the office undisturbed since it came out of the box.
And yet it is now absolutely useless.
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(04-16-2023, 03:38 PM)user328 Wrote: Today's printers waste paper by using a whole page at once, even if there's just a little text on the page.
I despiiiiise this.
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They're putting little chips in the ink cartridges that make the printer refuse to work if it's not their brand of cartridge.
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Amazon doesn't even know what a line printer is.
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(04-16-2023, 03:39 PM)Chatwoman Wrote: Used enough to necessitate the changing of the ink ONCE.
And actually, I am not even sure the ink really was low.
I just assumed that was the issue, but now I'm not sure.
HP printers now failing BEFORE you've even had a chance to empty the original fucking cartridges???
Is it a joke??
And what about the timeline?
The printer is over a year old...
Was it just time for it to automatically break??
There's trickery afoot here.
Reminds me of Apple programming older iPhones to get slower with successive releases, even though there is nothing wrong with them on a hardware level...
"Apple Sued for Slowing Old iPhones On Purpose"
https://www.sectual.com/thread-4558.html
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(04-16-2023, 03:39 PM)user328 Wrote: They're putting little chips in the ink cartridges that make the printer refuse to work if it's not their brand of cartridge.
Yeah, and this is just what they'll admit to.
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My stepmother has to use one of those multi-function color printer / copier / fax things for work. She has to replace the damned thing every time she turns around.
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(04-16-2023, 03:41 PM)user328 Wrote: Amazon doesn't even know what a line printer is.
They do sell old school dot matrix printers, ink ribbons, and fan-fold paper. They tend to cost a little more than laser printers. Some are insanely expensive.
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(04-16-2023, 03:51 PM)user328 Wrote: My stepmother has to use one of those multi-function color printer / copier / fax things for work. She has to replace the damned thing every time she turns around.
See.
There's something to this.
How wasteful of these companies though...
Fucking unbelievable that they're willing to make this much trash and junk that ends up in landfills just to line their pockets.
Gross.
