What does HP stand for? I think this post isn’t related to health points or Harry Potter.
HP is a brand that makes printers. But more recently they’ve started moving into the ink / ink subscription business.
Or it maybe stands for HungryPhrog???
Absolutely not. I just skimmed your post history here on Lemmy. You seem like good people.
Expensive refills on ink/toner I can accept. It’s been like that forever. What I can not accept is how useless the HP printer/scanner is without HP smart. In windows I literally cannot do anything unless I’m signed into their stupid service. In Linux I just grab generic drivers and do whatever I want. So it’s obviously not baked into the printer. I can’t wait to get a new one from another brand, just need one good reason to make more e-waste.
My Brother monochromatic printing ~3000 pages per cartridge going brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
buy a Brother, or better yet a laser printer.
I’ll only buy Brother printers now. The print quality is pretty good and they just work on my Linux desktop.
It’s fairly easy (drill hole, inject ink with syringe, seal hole with soldering iron) but it’s pretty messy. It’s good to have a work area you can fuck up and latex gloves are a good idea. I don’t know how to reset the chips, but I keep a set of new full cartridges separate from the ones I refill and when the dialog shows up saying the printer is out of ink (even when the refilled cartridges are nearly full) I just pop in the new carts and print one page of something, then put the refilled carts back in and they’ll work for a few weeks until I have to do it again.
Well worth it financially - a set of new carts is $70 whereas $30 of raw ink + syringes will refill the carts like 10 times or so.
Even scanning over the network works on Linux on my Brother MFP. I really didn’t expect that.
I was in the market this year so shopping around laser color ones I noticed the reviews for even the Brother said it would brick your printer if you use 3rd party toners. So just look before you buy. I ended up buying their more expensive one because of that, but still not entirely sure its 3rd party compatible. Ill research whether thats the case when my toner needs replaced.
The last printer I bought was a shitty $80 Samsung Laser Printer that still works on its original toner after 10 years. The print quality is terrible but it’s still the best deal I ever had on a printer.
I just buy a new printer each time it runs out of ink
