I hate that everything now is a subscription service instead of buying it and do whatever you want.
Looks like I'm not changing my almost 10 year HP LaserJet printer after all..
Maybe not the same, as its more of a service contract. At work, we have had a site which has been closed for 2 years. for 2 whole years, every week the vending machine company arrive, try to get in, can't, ring us, and we say "that site is closed".
Well we finally after 2 years got them to remove that site from their system?
Their response? to remove ALL food from ALL vending machines at all our sites, to remove the coffee machines, and to remove the water coolers. The water coolers are especially egregious, as they just sit there doing nothing. they are from tap water, so not even replacing bottles etc.
Sometimes subscriptions are useful. I wish the BBC TV licence in the UK was a subscription. I cannot justify spending £150 on a licence for an entire year, just to watch a month of shows. but other times it sucks. I just want Microsoft office. I don't care if it will cost me £200. Right now my favourite game is subscription based, but i don't think i can justify the £9.99 a month, or £50 for a whole year. £50 for lifetime access? maybe.
LibreOffice has more functionality and it's actually free
With the current situation, no way you are getting a lifetime access. Companies have discovered that people actually pay for subscriptions even if they don't add anything worthwhile to keep you renewing.
You are just renting and there is no option to buy.
learn to print to pdf and save the file. can always print but even better you can email it etc. brother laser scanner is best I've owned. son bought me one of these, "Brother MFC-L2710DW series Printer" to replace a still working brother laser 2170w, 10 yo. I don't print a lot but wife prints every receipt which end up in the trash
Even worse, if you subscribe to the ink service with an HP printer, it will update the firmware. But if you decide to cancel the service, they don't change the firmware so you now own a brick.
HP Printers is definitely one of the worst printers right now; I hate you need a account to use your HP printers
What are good printer companies? Fuck HP and Epson
Brother
My Brother printer has been going for about 14 years, so I recommend them.
It's so cool that we live in a world where you can 3d print a gun more reliably than you can 2d print an insurance card
I was so sad to find out that Samsung pulled out of the printer business a few years back. I've had a Samsung color laser (it's actually LED, but it looks like any other laser printer) for over 10 years and it has been nearly flawless all this time. I don't print a ton and on an ink jet printer, then cartridges would have dried out between the few times I would actually need to print something. Then you'd waste like 1/2 the ink just to unclog it and realign everything. But this Samsung just doesn't skip a beat if I let it sit for 3 months - it fires right up if I need something. And unlike HP's offerings, the drivers for this printer aren't like 2 GBs in size with a ton of bloatware.
I got a printer where I fill up the ink tank myself. Fuck all these other printers.
Meanwhile my laser Kyocera prints full color full duplex and doesn't try any funny business.
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