HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::“Never own a printer again.”
Thanks! I’ll never own an HP printer! Good advice!
HP anything really.
HP stands for hot paninis, because their laptops get so hot they can be used as a panini press.
The toner in my laser printer has lasted longer than my need for hard copy.
I bet you it sends them the printer data so they can use it to train AI. It’s all in the ToC
HP becoming Facebook soon
$36/mo is 144 pages printed at my local library. If I needed to print that many pages, I’d get an enterprise MFP.
They’ve been trying to make people sign up this for a while. Their drivers are pretty much malware that attempts to trick the user to sign up.
I doubt that it is a successful model for HP. They don’t offer anything other than a stupid way to pay. Who the hell wants that.
Really shitty management over at HP.
CEO Enrique is delusional
No, a ruthless evil genius. I think loads of people are going to subscribe, and they can therefore be categorised as delusional.
No home customer is going to find this worthwhile. Businesses might, but B2B already operates under different business model assumptions than B2C. This would cost more in 6 months than an average home user is likely to spend on printing over 5 years.
If you want to get customers to sign up for your subscription service, it has to at least appear like a win for them. This one is so blatantly a loss that it’ll never take. At $10 it might work, and at $6 I can see a lot of people ending up doing it. The only thing I can think of is that this is designed to attract the negative attention before getting positive attention when they inevitably decide to drop the price to something that is actually viable.
You’re too optimistic. This is simply to prey on your grandmother
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’
HP was dead to me 15+ years ago.
Fuckin’ shit-merchants.
Or spend $15 more and get a Brother Laser printer.
They’re getting worse too. Retroactively blocking third party toner cartridges.
One of my fondest memories was beating our old HP printer to death with the baseball bat we keep for potential intruders. I now print at the local library and regret the beating incident less and less every year.
Even the low end is insane. $8 a month for 20 pages? You can go to a place like Staples or FedEx Office with a USB drive and get that printed out for less than a dollar.
It’s actually 20c per page for about 4 bucks. Then there is tax for another 40c then 35c of gas and possibly 15 minutes of your time over and over and over again.
The right answer is a black and white laser. spend $199 once in the next 10-15 years
That’s an insane price. It would literally be cheaper to buy a new HP printer when the ink runs out.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
HP launched a subscription service today that rents people a printer, allots them a specific amount of printed pages, and sends them ink for a monthly fee.
HP is framing its service as a way to simplify printing for families and small businesses, but the deal also comes with monitoring and a years-long commitment.
Prices range from $6.99 per month for a plan that includes an HP Envy printer (the current model is the 6020e) and 20 printed pages.
A web connection can also concern users about security or HP-issued firmware updates that make printers stop functioning with non-HP ink.
HP says it enforces a constant connection so that the company can monitor things that make sense for the subscription, like ink cartridge statuses, page count, and “to prevent unauthorized use of Your account.”
Subject to the terms of this Agreement, You hereby grant to HP a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, copy, store, transmit, modify, create derivative works of and display Your non-personal data for its business purposes.
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