HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly
HP is informing customers by email about an upcoming HP Instant Ink price increase. Prices increase by up to 50%.
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The only thing that still might save printers is competition.
Euuhh does nobody realize Brother has existed for like 20 years and doesn't pull all this HP shit? They even have label printers which allow third party labels.
There are inkjet printers now from multiple other brands which are great too and allow full refills.
Just don't buy HP it's that easy.
Dude. Brother was founded in 1908.
1908 was … like 20 years ago.
Euuhh does nobody realize Brother has existed for like 20 years and doesn't pull all this HP shit?
You were right until around 2020 when Brother, too, started to roll out firmware updates outright blocking third party toners or even worse, making the printers intentionally print like crap with third party cartridges:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
Now, that even Brother has turned to the dark side, I really don't know what printer to recommend other than older/used Brothers with firmware updates disabled.
With all the Big Brains at HP making up all this atrocious bullshit you'd think one of them would say "why don't we buy all the competition like the large media companies are doing? It's not like the US will stop us, hell they'll give us subsidies or something."