Vendor lock-in is a good thing? HP's CFO thinks so
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  • thisisnotgoingwell@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I bought a laser printer years ago(Brother brand) and have printed a few hundred pages, I’ve never had to worry about toner. Ink printers are a total scam and the only reason people buy them is because the initial cost is much cheaper or they don’t know the difference between inkjet and laser.

    • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I literally bought a pallet of printers from state surplus for $45. They were all laser. I’m on three years on the first one now. BTW don’t do this, moving them was a PITA

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I got a brother laser printer from goodwill like 5 years ago for 7 bucks.

      Still on the toner cart that came with it.

      So much better than inkjets.

    • froh42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      When I urgently needed to print something a few years ago I ran to the store and purchased the cheapest laser printer I could find, which was a Ricoh for Eur 42. Windows GDI printer shit, but I also found Mac drivers and a working linux driver.

      It waa the low end model, had the same printing mechanism as the larger Ricoh Multifunction things and third party toner was dirt cheap. Ah and I can’t remember any paper jam.

      Inkjets, especiallw those from HP are a scam.

      I only threw out the (fully working) Ricoh after years, because someone gave me a network connected full color Oki Multifunction led printer device for free.

      (Ah I checked later, “normal” price for the Ricoh when not on sale was Eur 75 or so)