As much as I love giving the middle finger to a company as awful as HP, people need to stop supporting garbage companies like this and then this wouldn't be necessary.
You can pick up one for cheap or free and there are cheap 3rd party laser cartridges that will last a normal households for years.
(Not in the Bay Area though, maybe that's why? I'm in Central Oregon, semi-rural with not a lot of tech.)
So keep it in a dry garage, just away from living spaces.
So basically for $12 a year we can have a home printer but never have to worry about cartridges. They just show up in the mail when we need more, and the used ones can be recycled in the included mailer.
The math works out when I think about it but for some reason I’m still floored by the fact that $12 only gets you 10 pages of paper for an entire year.
My Brother B&W laser printers never die and a $30 cartridge ($60 if you buy OEM) lasts a minimum of 2600 and will never dry out. I replace the cartridge once every few years and if I need color then driving over to FedEx etc. is much faster than waiting for something to come in the mail to replace an ink cartridge that will inevitably dry up if you're not using it every day.
PS you don't have to wait for new cartridges. It's all connected, so they will automatically mail you a new cartridge as soon as the printer senses it's low-ish, long before it's totally dry.
Their customer service bot is generous too. I lost a cartridge during a move, told it I was running low and it automatically shipped me a couple new ones, no questions asked.
I don't really know how HP manages to make any money on this, but it's incredibly convenient. Probably they hope you'll end up moving to a higher subscription tier, but that makes no sense because if we printed more, we'd just get a laser. Shrug. I'll enjoy it while it lasts though!
Americans are dumb for accepting locked inkjet cartridges.
We do have some printers here that are designed for this use case for what it's worth. Dunno if they are any good. Personally, I have had a Brother color laser for years.
I’m sure there are other words that we can use too.
But that's not actually my point to be honest, my point is that the problem is not the people who are getting screwed over. It's the people screwing them over.
One could not exist without the other.
No they don't.
Indian market sells same printer as they sell in US.
Difference is, indians refill those cartridges, reset chips, or use fake cartridges.
There are only few printers in market which can be filled for real.
Indian cartridges are cheap only because labor in india is cheap. If US had same labor prices.
But quality is just not same. I lived in both US and India.
What you’re talking about are the printers way, way cheaper than you can get in the US.
Having said that, we have an old Samsung laser printer, and the Samsung printer business was bought by HP since we got it. Recently, HP started shorting me on toner in the replacement cartridges (they cartridges go streaky with 25%+ “toner remaining”).
Switching to third-party ones that bypasses HP’s authenticity checks was clearly the right move (they’re higher quality, cheaper, and also, screw hp).