HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription."

Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by portaouflop on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:08PM (#39120601)

I recently was in Cuba and also visited a local print shop.

It was a delight to see dozens of hacked HP printers with tubes directly going into containers of ink doing all the printing.

The printers had small custom circuit boards attached and were mostly dismantled up to the very core of the machine. As far as I could see it all worked very well and print quality was also good at a low price (even for local standards).

HP doesn’t stand a chance against humans who are determined to solve a problem.

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by supportengineer on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:33PM (#39120936)

Epson went ahead and embraced these users, and built a line of printers for them. [1]

[1] https://epson.com/ecotank-ink-tank-printers

Haven't used them personally but it seems like a positive step forward.

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by epiccoleman on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:54PM (#39121219)

Something really tickled me about clicking this link and seeing ... Shaq, of all people, grinning with his arms spread to advertise these printers.

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by falcolas on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:59PM (#39121269)

Trivia bit: Shaq’s likeness is owned by the same company who owns and licenses the Sports Illustrated brand.

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by prossercj on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:08AM (#39142207)

Canon has one of these too. I've been using it for almost a year, and I love it. I print a lot of reading material, and the cost per page is lower than laser. In my opinion the aesthetics are also better.

https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/maxify-gx6021?color=Black&t...

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by declan_roberts on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:22PM (#39120766)

That’s why they use regulation and laws in the USA to try and get their way.

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by moolcool on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:25PM (#39120825)

Is it illegal in the US to hack your own HP printer? I remember ~20 years ago there was a pretty huge cottage industry in grey market inkjet refills and DRM circumvention

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by declan_roberts on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @03:15PM (#39122078)

Individual use gets a lot of privilege in US law (rightly so!) but commercial purposes get the stick. In this it would probably be a cease and desist to the copy business

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by graemep on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:48PM (#39121133)

> and DRM circumvention

Which makes it sound like a breach of copyright law.

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by skydhash on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:22PM (#39120784)

I had a friend who used syringes to refill the catridges. He'd buy bottles of ink instead.

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by gosub100 on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:25PM (#39120823)

I would like to see crowdfunding of bounties that people could chip into, that are released to hackers who successfully accomplish the task. It would cost nothing to the contributor unless the bounty was claimed, and awarding the bounty would be done by a vote of a quorum of trusted leaders. Examples would be "jailbreak the XYZ phone" or "remove DRM from HP printer model 123xyz", etc.

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:46PM (#39121110)

Congress would shut that down faster than prediction markets and online poker.

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by portaouflop on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @06:12PM (#39123918)

build it and host it like pirate bay — I’m sure the knowledge is already out there, we just gotta make it accessible and impossible to take down

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by cyanydeez on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @05:37PM (#39123544)

which is why they likely are already in process to hijack America's IP system and political machine to try a DMCA like enforement.

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Re:HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a su... by xigurat on Thursday January 25, 2024 @02:21AM (#39127093)

As a Cuban person, I'm very proud of this... My dad, an engineer, does stuff like this all the time

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