>March 2016 HP issues firmware update for their inkjet pr

This is why you get a Brother printer.
Bros before hoes

>>57026563
Brother sucks as well, they all do, and they all collude to keep their pricing up.

HP has the absolute best printer interface, and an incredible amount of networking tools.

>>57026598
Brother printers are the only ones that aren't fucking you over on purpose.

>>57026563
>>57026614

I have never seen a "Brother" printer and I'm still not sure if you're memeing or if that is actually a brand.

>>57026526
In 2008 Brother printers were actually sued against for the same thing. Didn't work because Brother printers actually allowed you to disable that option.

>>57026526
Wilkosmaloviric printers are much better. You can compile your own printer firmware.

>>57028286
I prefer Metlaqublayiric printers myself, you can build them from scratch.

>>57028162
chink brand, got one in the office, at least the low segment and compared to HP one (like the 1102w tier) is shit, took 2 toners to kill that fucker without any weird manipulation (just put the recomended paper and that's it) while we still use a 5L from 1998 without any issues after like 10 toners each refilled god know how many times....

I think of them as the condoms of printers, works fine out of the box but after one use it goes into the trash or explode.

HP Injekt printers are pretty much disposable for 40$

>the wonders of closed source shitware.
Enjoy not having property.

Tektronix printer or GTFO

I once bought a printer, spent 100 bucks brand new it was all wireless.

It used it once and it took a shit. Brand was brother.

All printers are shit though.

I wish we could use thermal printers for everything.

CISS for lyfe

I have more respect for a scumbag company who does something scummy then sticks to it. This is being a scumbag AND being a bitch.

>>57026526
what printer is open source and will not fuck me over?

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Isn't capitalism just great?

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>>57026526

>>57026526
>firmware upgrades
>on fucking printers
Why

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>>57031550

Because America is a shit country with a shit people that needs to die.

>>57031246
It has it's downfalls, but it's FAR better that Socialism or communism.

printers are one of the first things that come up if you look into planned obsolescence, there is a chip that makes printers just stop working if it detects some small amount of leaked ink, when infact the printer still functions.

first time i've heard anyone going apeshit over it though, guessing because 3rd party ink is cheap and your business needs money money money aswell, its almost as though you can't figure out fucking everyother over for profit means you get fucked too.

>>57031592
Such a caring and understanding liberal wishing for the death of others

>>57029786
>chink brand
They're Japanese.

They also make decent sewing machines.

>using inkjet printers
it's like you enjoy having problems

>>57031808
>liberal
I'd call that a failed attempt at guessing my political stance, but I'm not naïve and I know this shitty blog works on the basis of debate techniques, so it's obvious you were just trying to label me negatively. Fuck off, you moron.

>>57031752
This, commies go to hell!

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>>57031752

Does this apply for chipped (remanufactured) cartridges?

Inkjet printers are scum to begin with but I'm not surprised HP pulled this move.
Last I heard they weren't re-releasing any firmware, they just apologized about the "way they informed customers about the changes"

A friend who works at best buy said people have been returning hp printers like crazy, even ones that aren't affected by this shit.

I unfortunately work at a company that applied this type of business model to coffee, and it was a shot in the foot. I think it will literally bring the whole company down

>>57026526
>using 3rd party ink cartridges
Are you fucking stupid?

>>57032257

No I'm not, HP paid shill.

I got chinked by this HP printer shit

I'm the kind of guy that buys a variety of off-brand cheap cartridges to see which ones work best, and then immediately go buy 20+ more of the best cartridges from the same lot, because I've verified that they work and they're way cheaper than name brand ink.

When my old computer shit the bed I installed the print driver from the website on my new computer, it updated the printer firmware, and lo and behold my printer with ~25 high capacity ink cartridges is now bricked until I shell out dosh for HP ink.

FUCK HP
I go through a lot of ink too, I'm just glad I only had like 25 cartridges. I usually have hundreds of dollars worth of ink cartridges saved up but thank god I was running low when this all happened.

If It was name brand ink we'd be talking like a thousand dollars worth of ink carts that I how have that are completely useless because the HP printers they were designed to fit in will no longer accept them

Brother mono lasers are awesome. Cheap as fuck to run, no bells and whistles, but reliable like the old HP Laserjets used to be, before they went all cheap and shifty.

Fucking shifty inkjets that dry up and render themselves useless, and fuck expensive to run color laser printers, too much hassle.

If you cannot live without basic printing then a cheap mono laser is the only way to roll.

>>57032348
Calm down Anon. HP is releasing new firmware to allow the use of 3rd party cartridges for select model printers.

The new firmware should be released for download sometime mid-October.

Check this link to see if your printer will be included with the new firmware.

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Inkjet-Printing/Dedicated-to-the-best-printing-experience/m-p/5783870/thread-id/575869

>>57032518
nice my model printer is on that list
thanks anon I'm feeling slightly less pissed about it

although I did have to buy a different printer for my business, I haven't begun to stockpile ink for it yet though, maybe I wont have to

>>57026526
Read up on the trial where Lexmark found out that reverse-engineering their toner cartridge chips was legal.
Great stuff. (Sorry, no link).

>>57028162
It's a real brand.
http://www.brother-usa.com/

If you picture equipment from the late 90's, stuff that was built like a tank and kept running, but you find it fugly and clunky, then yeah, that's Brother. We have fax machines that won't fucking die - they're over a decade old and they keep going.

>>57032474
>but reliable like the old HP Laserjets used to be
Ah yes, the Laserjet 4. The fucking tank of laser printers. Our last one decomissioned about 8 years ago after hitting almost a million copies.

Think about that. A laser printer that was 15 years old and still printing, and we got rid of it because it was slow, not because it didn't work.

I miss the fucking thing. It's a fucking boat anchor, you can easily break a foot by placing it on the floor and running by it. It's slow, noisy, and ran like a champ.

>printing
>2016
catch up grandpa

>>57026526

I worked as a contractor for one of their service desks, terrible company to work for truly.

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>>57031752
>yfw socialist countries has a more free market and better competition and less monopolies/oligarchies fucking consumers over

>>57034577
>2016
>still believing that digital would survive a fucking catastrophe
Paper still exists for a reason. It's durable, lasts decades, cheap, can be easily stored and collated, and even the most basic civilizations can figure out how to make it.

Digital is nice, but Jesus H. Fucking Christ you people are dense when you believe that all digital will solve all your problems. Hint: you just shift problems from one (fast cheap lookup) to another (based on a technology with incredible dependencies and there's the data migration problem on top of it)

https://www.diveintomark.link/tag/rambling

Read the section on data preservation. Get back to me in a few years, chuckles.

>>57034678
hemp paper is superior

>>57034678
>taking obvious bait
are there even people pre 2012 here anymore?

>>57034577
A lot of the old farts in my uni still like to grade work by hand.
We have to upload it to the plagiarism checker, and then hand them a paper copy

At my old job I worked for a small insurance broker and they sent EVERYTHING to do with new policies and renewals out by post

>>57034706
Yes.
>>57034765
I think it has something to do with convenience.

>>57034678
>https://www.diveintomark.link/tag/rambling
Fucking "smart URL" bullshit...

https://www.diveintomark.link/content/all?q=oranges

corrected link, click "Juggling Oranges".

Stupid fuckers, it's uniform resource LOCATOR for a reason.

>>57031827
This. I have a brother printer that's way too good for the price and my mum got a second hand industrial sewing machine of the same brand that is loud and heavy as fuck. That sure is a sewing battlestation.

>>57031510
underrated
here's your (You)

Who the fuck updates printers?

>>57034666
Trips of truth.

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>>57034666
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/10/29/452636462/the-nightmare-of-grocery-shopping-in-venezuela

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>>57031510

>>57026526

printer ink is no joke

they sell printers at a loss so they have to make money on them

watch this podcast he talks about it at some point

http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/2/6/a/26a5d1484db30812/TheAmpHour-284-AnInterviewWithGreatScott.mp3?c_id=10800590&expiration=1476243421&hwt=15560519d867d88afebb067100f17c59

Inkjet is a shit. I bought a used Samsung laser printer off Craigslist because the low toner light was on for 25$. I printed over 100pages before quality actually degraded, the cartridge had well over 1000prints at this point. I bought a refill kit for 6$ which can fully refill it twice, 200pages later and I'm still going strong on my first refill.

>>57036814
https://www.wfp.org/stories/10-facts-about-hunger-somalia

>>57036814
>one country to represent them all
nice "argument"

i guess chicago represents all american cities aswell?

>>57031246
I haven't bought an HP product in over a decade. It is great that there are so many choices I don't need to buy anything from HP ever again.

xerox

>>57037123
Your "argument" fucking blows. Explain why Eastern European countries are such shit holes after being socialist for 50 years, and how many now have a better quality of life after getting rid of that shitty system.

My point still stands. The only things that controlled markets are good at is causing shortages and black markets where everything is overpriced.

Name one socialist country that is successful.

inb4 "socialism has never been done properly"

>>57037107
How is this relevant to the discussion what so ever?

>>57036893
STFU. They make plenty off of inkjets and refills, to the tune of billions per year. BooFuckingHoo...muh printer sold at a loss.

Ya right, these greedy corporate fucks want you spending $1K per year on their bullshit.

The greedy bastards created a thriving 3rd party ink market by pricing their crap far too high.

Who the fuck wants to spend $100 on a set of inks that will dry out, and the other half used on priming, cleaning and constantly aligning the print head.

If they priced their inks fairly, no one would buy from a 3rd party vendor, and they would regain that lost market, then they won't have to spend millions on bullshit counterfeit alarms they install in their "muh free printers".

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>>57026526
IT'S OUT BOYS!

HP just released a new firmware revision that now allows the use of 3rd party inks.

Check your printer models driver download page.

To see a list of printers that will be getting this update, check this link...


http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Inkjet-Printing/Dedicated-to-the-best-printing-experience/m-p/5783870/thread-id/575869

Don't forget to turn off automatic firmware updates after you install the new firmware.

>>57026614
Love the brother printer be bought for our other office.
>>57028259
Fuckin' love our intellifax

Fuck yeeeeeah Brother printerrrrs.

I replaced a fuser sleeve in our HP and it was a pain in the DIIIICK

PRINTERRRRRS

>>57029786
>things that never happened
Why does every fucking shitty american brand comes to shill here? God fucking damn HP faggot
Brother has been around longer than you fucking shill
>>57031229
None, though there's some 3D printers which are fully open source in everything
There's probably some old 90's printer that has been completely reverse engineered into freedom
>>57037350
>Name one socialist country that is successful.
China and Cuba
Anyways, his point is that the current "free market" is a command economy with little if any freedom, just look at Obamacare
>How is this relevant to the discussion what so ever?
Some people consider Somalia as free as possible since there's no functioning government, it's the same thing as cherry picking Venezuela

Shit like this makes Stallman's autism over free software make sense

Lexmark makes good printers.

Is everyone in this thread stupid? Has no one ever heard about refilling cartridges or using CISS systems? I've owned pretty much all printer brands and for the last couple years I've settled with a C3100 with a chink ciss kit that works fine and retrieved from storage a 895C, slower sure, but absolutely reliable. And with an Hp45 cart refilled to the brim I can get well over 1000 pages.

Seriously, you people let yourselves get rustled for nothing.

>>57036814
Maybe this is because Venezuela is poor, not because it's socialist.

>>57031510
ayyyye

>>57038518
>>Name one socialist country that is successful.
>China and Cuba
>Literally two dictatorships where dissidents are executed and the people off the tourist rollercoaster tracks live in absolute misery

2/8 made me come to the thread specifically to answer

>>57037350
Norway, Finland and Denmark.

>>57028162
at my work we just got new fax machines and they are all Brother brand

>>57039598
>>57034500
funny you mention that... my job just replaced our old yellowed fax machines that are like 15 years old with new Brother ones.

nothing wrong with the old ones but I guess tech people had extra money to burn

>>57039622
>nothing wrong with the old ones but I guess tech people had extra money to burn
Now watch as the new ones break in 2 years and they wish they didn't throw out the yellowed ones.

Nothing against Brother, they're one of the better printer makers in my experience, but in the 90s they made things to last, now everyone makes things to break.

>>57039557
>In the Scandinavian countries, like all other developed nations, the means of production are primarily owned by private individuals, not the community or the government, and resources are allocated to their respective uses by the market, not government or community planning.

>>57039557
>I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.

>Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Danish Prime Minister

>Leftards BTFO
BTFO
T
F
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>>57039750
What Americans call socialism and what actual socialists call socialism are entirely different things. For instance, to an American a market economy that has full universal healthcare and regulates large corporations is socialism.

>>57039790
>Name one socialist country that is successful.
>le nordic model meem
>The nordic model ain't socialist - t. a nordic pm
>b-but it's socialism for me
I shiggy diggy

why would a printer need a firmware update?

>>57039959
you'd be surprised how bad release firmware can be on printers

>>57031510
Made me lol on the train.

I would wish they would go down under. They produce nothing of quality. No business buying a laptop and getting enough crap that you have to actually fucking reinstall Windows.

>>57028162
fading japanese brand that autists love because muh build quality