How does HP continue to trick people (myself included) into buying their printers?

Unless you need color, get a cheap laser printer

I’ve only had 2 brother printers over the last 17yrs, and only got a new one for an MFD so i could scan/copy and print color laser. I get the cheap toner packs off amazon. Never had any issues

I broke down and bought a Cannon color laser printer, it is awesome. I think I paid $279 for it, it has two feed trays, a flat bed and stacked document reader. It does two sided printing. I don't miss an inkjet at all.

You could say the same thing about any other company's inkjet printers. I'm sure HPs laser printers are great, just like every other laser printer

Hell, my Dell laser printer has been a beast for the past 5 years or so

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Anyway, is there a printer company that doesn't frick you? Brother?

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I can only go by Brother’s fax machines. I have one for insurance jobs for windshield business, still unfortunately have to use fax. If you get pissed at HP, you’ll be even more at Brother. Try not being able to receive a fax because the color blue is low, the fax doesn’t even have blue in it. Then when you check the levels, it’s still half full. I’ve tried all the tricks to try and get it to work and nothing does. I bought more black ink last week and received 4 pages of faxes, it’s already saying I cannot receive more because black is empty, son of a bitch is 3/4 full, and absolutely no help from the company

Well they did it, and it wasn't the first time. From what I understand, they've faced class action suits over this practice, but I guess the profits outweigh the legal costs.


Edit: Slight correction I guess, the printer didn't actually "brick" the cartridges, it just refused to use them. But given that they are useless for any other purpose, they are essentially bricks.

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It took everything I had to not take it out back for some Office Space action. Got one last set of aftermarket cartridges, and after that this thing is going in the trash.

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Welp, here we are. Got maybe 20 pages out of that set and now the printer won't boot. It tries to start up, then it flashes a blue screen before going to a black screen that says "Printer Error. Turn the printer off then on". Turn off, then on, and it repeats. Occasionally it will ask for the wifi password, because it forgot it apparently, then it never connects and goes back to the black screen. And oh yeah, every time it tries to boot it first squirt-squirts more ink down the drain. I am confident that HP programs random "cleaning" cycles into the firmware strictly to boost ink revenue. Offer to clean, let me see how it's printing, don't just flush that shite down the drain.


So now I'm forced to invest in a camera that can shoot nice slow motion video as I destroy this thing. This will be my first venture into film making, so I want to get off to a good start. I plan to incorporate both melee and ranged weapons, so I will need a nice zoom lens. Any recs for a camera that can handle that without breaking the bank?


Also frick ink jets. And I think frick all-in-one machines, too. I need color, but not photo quality, so I'm going with a color laser. And I know it will be more up front, but I think it will pay off in the long run to get a standalone document scanner. It won't be quite as convenient as a "copy" button, but we can deal with a two step scan->print.

So is there a preferred color laser? How about a document scanner with 20+ page feeder? Would be nice if it can handle receipts, but not necessary.

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I'm sure HPs laser printers are great, just like every other laser printer

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I have an HP laserjet that I hate. I have only kept it around for many years because the toner cartridge it came with lasted well over 5 years, and replacement aftermarket toner was extremely cheap and works perfectly (even though the built-in webserver page complains about it not being a genuine cartridge).

It frequently stalls and needs re-adding and I never can figure out why (it's not dropping off the network, I can pull up its webserver page, but will print for some clients and not others). I think the HP drivers are fixed now but back in the day the HP drivers for mac clients were terrible and would take 5+ minutes to send a single page print job. Replacing with some open source gutenprint driver from CUPS or something ended up working perfectly to resolve that.

I rarely ever need to print documents so that's really the only reason I haven't replaced it, but every time I do I know I'm in for a 10 minute session to figure out why it's not in the mood to print this morning...

I've had an HP color laser for almost a decade. It's a beast. I buy generic toner with zero issues.