HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors

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HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors
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HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::"Never own a printer again."

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HP anything really.

HP stands for hot paninis, because their laptops get so hot they can be used as a panini press.

I still have my HP laptop from a few years ago, and despite running like crap nowadays, it still manages to warm my legs through my desk

Dev One laptop isn’t bad, got one on eBay for less than half of its original price and it’s a solid machine. Other than that, HP can chew glass.

I will refuse to buy anything HP, even used stuff, purely out of spite for them pulling this shit.

Their OfficeJet Pro is $13 a month and offers next business day replacement. If I were to purchase out of spite, it would be with a debit/temporary card with exactly $13 on it, and claim a replacement for defective printer (since it cant print offline). I wonder if HP would still try these things if each “customer” costed them substantially more in shipping back and forth, or having to write off two “office” printers for $13.

Im at peace knowing that i bought it off the previous owner and not from the company, but that is completely fair.

Okay, I might make an exception for antique tech from the '90s or earlier, back when HP was actually good (e.g. a LaserJet 4, an HP-28C calculator, the function generator somebody posted in another thread yesterday, etc.). That's very unlikely, though.