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submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company's CEO,

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[–] BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't own a printer because the cost to constantly refill cartrages feels like a subscription already. I just go to the UPS store for the 3 times a year I actually need to print something, on a for-realsies printer that someone else maintains. usually costs less than a dollar every time I go.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I print whole books from the printer at work.

I work at a Starbucks.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why does Starbucks have a printer?

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Because there are administrative tasks to be done in the back office.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah they print us all the time in the back office.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Staples by my house has my printing business. Maybe 20 pages a year?