HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies
HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies
Malware threat from third-party cartridges nothing compared to threat to HP's bottom line
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In case anyone cares, I'm sitting next to a Brother MFC-J1205W. It cost a couple hundred bucks, came with all full ink cartridges, and makes absolutely gorgeous color prints in addition to obviously being fine for printing-type printing. I've bought more ink for it once and it was $47 for every color of color cartridge with tons of ink inside them (I was out of yellow; I still have the cyan and magenta cartridges, and I've never had to buy more black). I'm extremely happy with it so far.
Before that, I had an Epson Workforce 545. It was pricey but it lasted, no joke, about 15 years, and worked well for the first ten and acceptably after that (not producing beautiful documents any more but still perfectly functional for printing). It only died because someone spilled sauce into it. It was a little more greedy on the ink than the Brother is.
Edit: Oh, and to my knowledge neither of these printers ever tried to tell me that I needed to install their special
rootkitsoftware in order to get the full experience of their printer. I just plug them in and they print. I feel like that's a selling point in our blighted modern age.I care, and I’ve added this to my list for when it comes time to grab a new printer.
I have my HP from about 15 years ago that has been trudging along for the two times a year that I need to print, but that thing was from another era and once it goes, there will not be another HP printer in my future.