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Lee Duna ( throws_lemy@lemmy.nz )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly

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HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly

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Lee Duna ( throws_lemy@lemmy.nz )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago
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Suit seeks injunction blocking HP from bricking printers using third-party ink.
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    Thirded. Get an Brother inkvestment model. No bullshit, it just does your bidding, like a printer should. And the ink lasts a very long time.

    Yes, everyone says get a B&W laser printer. If that fits your needs do so. We have kids that want or need to print in color fairly often, and color laser was out of the question last time we purchased.

    Brother is the now only brand I look at after decades of buying consumer printers. If absolutely forced not to buy Brother, I’d go with Epson. I used to love Canon, but each model started incorporating more and more bullshit, and I found their ink to be both expensive and short lived. HP is the king of printer bullshit, but Canon seems to want to sit on their court in recent years.

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      Inkvestment sounds like another scam.

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        OK man. Doesn’t bother me if you don’t buy one. This is the longest I’ve kept a printer without throwing it away in disgust in a long time. Companies like to brand things with catchy names. shrug

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      Epson definitely isn’t as bad as HP but they’re easily as bad as Canon.

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        My last epson experience was about 5 years ago, (edit: holy cow maybe more like 10+ years ago. why does time go so fast?) so they may have gone downhill, appreciate the update. I had 2 in a row and both were good with Linux support and general lack of fussiness.

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          It also might be more their large format printers. I remember it being a whole thing that they’d leave ~20% of the ink in these $100 cartridges for print shops.

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            Oh yeah that would piss me off.

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