A note about printers
Feb. 10th, 2019 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineI currently own and use a Hewlett-Packard-made scanner-printer device. I didn't buy into such plans as described in the article by Cory Doctorow, but it is programmed to complain to me every time I use a refilled ink cartridge. I find that obnoxious enough as it is.
This is worse.
If Hewlett-Packard wants me to keep buying their scanner-printer devices when my current machine "dies", it would go well for them to cease and desist in the practices Mr. Doctorow describes here.
Permanently.
(And is this happening in Canada, and whom do we speak with at which level(s) of government if it is?)
https://boingboing.net/2019/02/08/inkjet-dystopias.html
This is worse.
If Hewlett-Packard wants me to keep buying their scanner-printer devices when my current machine "dies", it would go well for them to cease and desist in the practices Mr. Doctorow describes here.
Permanently.
(And is this happening in Canada, and whom do we speak with at which level(s) of government if it is?)
https://boingboing.net/2019/02/08/inkjet-dystopias.html
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Date: 2019-02-11 05:27 pm (UTC)Myself, I got out of the inkjet and multifunction printer scam a long time ago when I discovered that my scanner wouldn't work because one of the ink cartridges was dry. Threw away the printer and bought a laser and a scanner. Caught a fab deal on a color HP printer, used it until the demo ink was exhausted (4 years or so), replaced it with a Samsung monochrome.
To me, this practice is ripe for someone putting a packet sniffer on the line, then trapping the codes and manipulating the process. I would never buy in to this, and would apply a hefty boot to the head to anyone that I knew that was contemplating this.
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Date: 2019-02-11 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-15 09:37 am (UTC)(When I say "more expensive" I mean an entry-level inktank inkjet here in the UK costs about £180, compared to maybe £30-40 for an equivalent extortionware printer … but comes with enough ink for about 2000 pages pre-loaded, and 5000 page refills available for about the cost of a 200-page DRMd cartridge for their rivals: by the time you need to refill it for the first time you've broken even compared to the other printers.)
(Caveat: I am not speaking from experience—my paper output has dwindled so far over the past 2-3 years that I no longer need or own a printer.)
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Date: 2019-02-19 03:25 am (UTC)