I wouldn't pay $36 for an HP printer that they didn't monitor much less per month
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2024
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1 - buy one of those refillable ink tank printers that are now actually common and not expensive;
2 - buy ink bottles at aliexpress for $10 4x200ml ink or around that;
3 - years of ink for a few bucks.
If you have a cartridge printer, search on aliexpress for refillable cartridges for your printer and do step 2 anyway (you can usually refill those easily with a seringe).
Don't feed their greed.
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.
In a lot of densely populated Asian cities, you can print to the shared printer of a local convenience store through the network without bringing a USB drive. You submit the job, it gets stored in the queue of the device, you go to the store (usually just downstairs from your apartment), scan a QR code, and the job prints. You can even pay online - it's great!
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
This is what we did, sometimes we print, sometimes we don't, toner doesn't dry. Multi function 200 dollars. So far 5 years later, off brand toner and all is well.
You could also go to the library.
That's an insane price. It would literally be cheaper to buy a new HP printer when the ink runs out.
Yup dawg, we heard you like economic rent…
Oh yeah? I want Kojima to make more MGS games...
Sir, this is Wen... I mean HP
What hinders HP to open a top tier games division, hire Kojima, buy the MGS IP from Konami, and fulfill my want? Then maybe I'll consider renting a printer from them.
Do you want another EA?
It wouldn't be because it's acronym would be "HP".
Helectronic Parts?
I bought a Brother laser printer some years back for like $120 and am still working on the starter toner cartridge. HP can fuck right off with this.
Same here. BW Brother printer and I can get 3 toner cartridges for about $25. At about a dozen pages a day, those cartridges last me a whole year.
My laser printer is so old that it's USB 1.0.
It's on its second toner cartridge and I have no plans to get rid of it.
I wouldn't pay half that if it was the only source to feed HP employees. Fuck HP in the ass with a gasoline soaked pickle.
HP can go fuck themselves
I paid $100 for my Brother printer and I've spent...maybe $100 on toner cartridges since 2010.
So, yeah, HP can fuck off.
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