Judge denies HP’s plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit - AiO devices won’t scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers::AiO devices won’t scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers
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This might be too cruel. But what if we made them use cheap shitty printers for the rest of their life.
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And we get to spray them with cheap 3rd party ink
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“IT giant illegally left out that info”. Bruh. THEY LIED!
They did, but that’s not a legal term, so a judge won’t use it.
I still don’t get why anyone is buying inkjet printers for the past 20 years. It makes zero sense to me.
My in-laws gave my son an HP Envy. I placed a big Apple logo next to the HP logo. I have Apple logos on my trash bins too. Basically, any trash around the house gets an Apple logo stuck to it
So brave
Color laser printers are very expensive and still don’t achieve the same picture quality as an inkjet printer. And I have read once that dust from laser printers might cause cancer but not sure how much there really is to that.
Color lasers are about $300 dollars, do better quality, and have 10x the output per cartridge on a bad day. And they don’t dry rot when left without printing for extended periods. Replace the ink on an inkjet more than twice, and a laser is already a better deal.
If you want to print pictures to hang on your wall, ink printers print much better color quality.
If you want flat graphics to print on a document, laser is better.
Just depends on what your use case is.
Not just that, but it’s impossible to find a colour laser that’ll do 11x17 and duplex. I think my only option is a small office printer lease.
Why is anyone buying a printer at all?
Hey, printer people out there! What do you you use your printer for? My printer is just sitting idle collecting dust. Can’t think of anything I would need to print. Everything is digital these days.
In less developed countries, you’d need printed copies for a lot of stuff, especially legal documents.
Speaking from experience.
Oh, I remember those. The government here has been working to go digital for the past 30 years, and now it’s beginning to pay off.
Good for you! My country is going toward that direction, but corruption kinda keeps the progress slow. Still some progress here and there.
Exactly this. I live in a first-ish world country around Asia, and the moment you need paperwork dealt in any other nearby country, a printer is going to save you lots of trips to the convenience store.
I have a printer for the occasional need to print documents. Mind blowing I know, but that’s why I keep one around. It gathers dust most of the time, but it’s super useful when the odd need arises.
I for one can’t read correctly anything longer than a lemmy post on a screen. I print more or less anything that I’m want to read with my brain fully present - I usually outline and comment on paper too, makes it easier to remember. Latest use case : printing out dnd character sheets to do my charac design for BG3
Ok, that seems like a sensible use case.
I’ve heard many people say that reading stuff on a screen is more distracting and they have trouble focusing. I don’t feel that way, so screens are just fine for me.
My guess. Marketing.
Am I the only one who thinks it’s crazy that the only grounds they have are that HP didn’t disclose that their All-In-Ones won’t let you scan or fax without ink and not, you know, the fact that they do that in the first place? It should be illegal to disable critical functions of a device simply because an unrelated function is temporarily unavailable. There’s no technical reason HP is doing this other than, “fuck you, buy more ink.”
I mean, you can sell a shitty product, that’s not a crime, the crime is the false advertising or if it is a danger to people
Guess who the laws are actually designed to protect
Imagine in the future, your car just stopped working entirely and lock you out because your heated-seats subscription expired.
Canon did this to me years ago. Maybe 15. I haven’t given one cent to Canon since, and I was a big fan at the time with their cameras and such.
Fucking greedy assholes
The printer scene: https://youtu.be/N9wsjroVlu8
One of my favourite movies ngl
I have no printers in my house. I refuse that entire industry. Its a scam.
HP are a real scumbag company.
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