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We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners (www.theregister.com)

submitted 7 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@midwest.social

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fuck hp, fuck brother, and fuck all of them, they all do it

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do Brother printers prevent you from using non Brother branded cartridges?

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Brother printers won't even let you print in black after you're out of yellow for three weeks.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its worth knowing brother has very recently taken on this stance as a company. They used to be the GO TO for good non shitty printers, but no longer

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Define recent? This one is almost a decade old.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

And they'll burn through yellow during "cleaning" to make it even worse

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Worse, they make printing in black only without colors anywhere from impossible to infuriating, depending on how much you're willing to put up with.

And yeah, you get one use of a non brother cartridge, then it's "empty" permanently.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Agreed. There's no such thing as a good printer anymore. Fuck them.

On the bright side, printers sucking so badly has led me to take extreme measures to avoid having to print much of anything, and on the rare occasion we need something printed, I just go to the library and do it there.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And then you get to go to the library!

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 7 months ago

One of my favorite places to be tbh

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you really, I mean REALLY, want to hate printers, try being a Citrix admin. It's a bit better now but 20 years ago it was a pita.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, not sure why I qualified my statement with "anymore." Printers have always sucked donkey ass!