So my mother recently bought an ET-2800, By HP we had an HP printer before and we got a new one because the old one would not work with my sister’s Windows 11 Laptop. So I had to set it up for my mother, the manual said you can use it without the app. But there was no way to physically do that. Anyway, I downloaded the app on my phone (android) and the app would not connect to the printer. So I used my mother’s iPhone and it would connect. The setup process was stupid proof. And after I got it all full of ink, it was very painless. However, this is where the H in HP should stand for HELL. Because a few months go by and my sister and my mother need some papers printed. No problem. I thought to myself, so my sister tried to print it wirelessly. Couldn’t find the printer, I said ok maybe it’s a dumb driver, USB didn’t work either. I asked my sister to send it to me, so I can print it on my w540 running rocky 9. Rocky picked up that I needed drivers and installed them. Wireless didn’t work but wired showed up, I thought sweet I can just print the paper and get back to what I was doing. However, when I clicked print, the printer would grab the paper and run it though but not put ink on the paper. My mother asks me to forward the email to her to try to print it on her phone. I send it, and it prints, and the paper come out how it should with ink and the paper is finally printed.
After this experience with this printer, it makes me rather aggravated at this purchase, and no longer want to buy from HP. I have looked at Brother printers and there are no Proprietary ink cartage, and or laser printers. I purely wanted to talk about my experience with HP printers and would like to know what others have for a printer for recommendations, for when eventually HP kills support and makes it a paper weight, I’ve read many negative experiences with HP printer, specially from Lois Ross man and their anti consumer products.
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I’ve only bought Brother laser printers for 15 years now, and have no intention of doing anything else. Never again, HP.
HP haven’t always been this bad, but they are this bad now, and nobody should be giving them money.
Yeah it’s bad … Now many hp printers require Internet connectivity and an active subscription for you to be allowed to use the ink you purchased.
It’s unlimited ink but you pay per page
Not sure why I have a bad arrow: even if you have ink it’s not going to print if you used up your monthly pages
HP printers have always been shit nothing new… smh…
Yeah, HP are terrible now.
They weren’t always this bad, I had a laserjet 4000 that was made around the turn of the century and it “just worked”.
HP pretty much pioneered enshittification
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Average Cory Doctorow enjoy-er
Very Based–edit i accidentally quoted “weren’t a” i enjoy his books, i now realize it looked like i was mocking him. that was not my intent :P
HP doesn’t stand for “Huge Pain”. It stands for:
- H - Fuck
- P - You
That’s the unofficial moto of the HP company - “Fuck you!”.
Seriously, anyone who still buys HP products, they disrespect themselves.
For well over 20 years, yes.
HP practically invented the concept of “destroy the brand name of your high end professional equipment with the worst consumer garbage ever.” Their inkjets are infamous
They were early pioneers in the art of enshittification.
In the 80s and 90s HP printers were great. They just worked, even in rough dirty manufacturing environments. You could just about drop kick one, and it would still print out a page for you. Now they’re crap. The investment firm that owns the brand is past beating the dead horse, now trying to squeeze every last dollar out of the carcas.
Yes
They were actually taken to court over their machines breaking down and disabling functions that were ok. For example, your cartridge head is broken, but you can’t use the scanner either because the software shuts down all functions.
I have an old Laserjet 1020 I bought new many years ago. It still works perfectly on windows, but I haven’t been able to make it print with any Linux distro, so it sits in the corner with nothing to do :(
Never bought a good printer since 2003. In 2003 I remember you could get a good printer for a reasonable price with reasonably priced cartridges. Ever since then printer technology doesn’t seem to have improved but they all seem to have become much worse quality and incredibly scammy.
Literally threw my 2 year old HP in the trash today. Got a Brother printer based off reviews. Cost a bit more but it’s worth it to me to finally have a printer that just works and the toner lasts infinitely longer than that HP bullshit.
If it’s significantly better than what I could’ve bought in the 90s I’d go with it, but if it’s not I’d still consider it scammy since a lot of time has passed since then. Thankfully I don’t really need a printer now.
All printers are terrible.
I worked in a print store and brother those huge xerox machines are no joke. Tens of thousands of pages with minimal maintenance and downtime. Consumer printers are often terrible, especially inkjets, but this just seems like you’ve never used a nice one before. The problem is most people would rather pay 50 dollars for a really terrible printer to print with it 20 times rather than just order 20 prints from a shop or cough up a couple hundred for a really well made printer, laser or no.
