HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”

Re:HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service” by zwaps on Friday November 06, 2020 @05:34PM (#25011789)

As a student I owned the cheapest OKI laser printer. Once it broke so I called them. On the same day, they sent an actual engineer to my apartment to fix it.

Maybe they thought I was a business or something. No, just a guy in a rented room. I asked about it. The guy didn’t understand why I thought that was weird.

I was baffled. Oh also there was none of that nasty HP business. Buy any fitting toner and out it in.

I wonder if Oki still exists. If it does, here’s a recommendation.

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Re:HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service” by dfox on Friday November 06, 2020 @06:37PM (#25012142)

It does and if you can get an OKI printer it is probably better choice than Brother. OKI and Brother printers are generally similar (in fact I would not be surprised if Brother printers are actually made by OKI), but OKI printers tend to have better firmware and actual licensed PostScript implementation from Adobe. And at least here (Czech Republic) you can often get OKI printers on sale with almost ridiculous discounts.

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Re:HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service” by my123 on Friday November 06, 2020 @05:46PM (#25011857)

They got out of the US printer market this year because of COVID: https://www.oki.com/us/printing/about-us/newsroom/news-and-i...

They're still continuing in other markets though.

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Re:HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service” by xbar on Friday November 06, 2020 @06:45PM (#25012181)

Sad. The OKI Microline 320 was a staple from my early 90s career in medical IT. It's still sold by Staples.

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