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Re:HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service” by projektfu on Friday November 06, 2020 @05:21PM (#25011717)
The Xerox Phaser solid ink printers produced really pretty images. It's a shame they are discontinued. I think you can still buy the ink blocks but they are probably going to phase them out.
Re:HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service” by Karunamon on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:52AM (#25013420)
That reminds me of a funny story. A previous employer had replaced a bunch of ancient HP LaserJets (we're talking LJ4s.. they were old) with these really nice Phasers. They printed fast, the output was gorgeous, and the drivers didn't suck. The replacement was facility-wide, so there were around 20 of these things.

A month later, IT was tasked with re-replacing them for everyone but marketing overnight. Literally overnight, as in, we're paying overtime for this. The boss didn't know what was happening until a week later, but it was a fire drill of an intensity that you usually don't see outside of a full outage.

It turned out that, while the Phasers do generate gorgeous hardcopy, the wax-like prints, can, with some effort, some skill, and a sharp knife, be popped off the page. A customer figured this out and had been effectively stealing service by way of paying invoices with numbers quite literally pulled off the page. The old Laserjets were placed back into service everywhere but the marketing group.

Re:HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service” by projektfu on Saturday November 07, 2020 @07:47AM (#25014770)
Haha true. They’re much better for photo and presentation than for legal documents.