Imagine if HP said you had to install an HP app on your computer, and every time you wanted to print a document in Microsoft Word, you had to have Word transfer that document to the HP app, then the HP app would be the only thing allowed to actually send the print job off.
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Windows talks to the device driver - which is typically written by the manufacturer.
Microsoft install device drivers for everything on your PC.
Windows talks to the driver, which talks to the device.
This is because laserjet printers are just delivery mechanism for that stupidly-expensive ink. It's a legal scam.
You can do workaround with an old win8 app from MS available in the store
At least on linux it just works
I've found plugging printers into a linux machine and printing over the network easier than directly on windows.
long and short, they stopped my printer functioning until I paid for more ink
Never use the mail order ink!
Regulations are RESPONSES TO greed by corporations.
They are not the REASON FOR greed by corporations.
FFS.
It's all good though they said they'll allow us to keep some modicum of control for now by enabling a developer mode setting! So magnanimous of them 🙂↕️ /s
I bought one for home use ages ago, cost around $150 delivered with 2 new toner cartridges.
They never used to take over and sell stuff.
Actually what HP does.
Very bulletproof...
It would seem most of the commenters don't watch Level2Jeff then because the comments are running amuck.
Please, make it stop.
That's exactly how it works!
Oh, did I mention that this is also in my bedroom?
I don't work for Brother, but I've been a happy customer for a long time. They haven't disappointed me yet.
Please, Brother, don't disappoint me.
Now their inkjets...fuck those.
But steer away from the ones what can't work without Smart... That was a Stupid choice by HP :D
Their retail, big box store garbage has the HP Smart branding all over it. Gross.
But the recent changes have made me think about changing to a different brand should I get a new printer in the future. The way they are locking down seems pretty crazy.
Anyone want to question Brother integrity???
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/111480744130939877
This explains why: "Brother's have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race"
"And here’s 275 words about printers I asked ChatGPT to write"
😬
Changed the toner cartridge maybe twice
On Android, using the dedicated Brother app works best but other operating systems print well natively.
Signed, former HP customer.
Gone are the days that their printers could natively process / use HCL or Postscript without a software sitting between.
This thing takes about an hour to print a page normally. And if I don’t use it consistently throughout the week it just stops working altogether, I’ve already serviced it about 4 or 5 times since I’ve bought it. :(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
Not copying mind you or won't even SCAN IT to go the computer or app. It thinks it needs color ink first.
🤣🤣 🤦♀️
But I take your point; Bambu is shooting themselves in the foot.
I don’t stray
They could teach Bambu a thing or two about pulling shady tricks
Forget it.
trans women are dying in droves if you want to oppose JKR more than superficially
Sorry, I'm new to this whole bluesky thing...
net-print/hplip-plugin
Anyone ever seen the owners of Bambu at a show and stood and talked to them for ages ?
Why are you using Word? Besides the suite being notoriously buggy, unless you are ON-SITE working for someone, why use Word?
Fuck those turds. A number of open source (which will save to MS formats) apps are in some respects, actually more powerful
https://www.documentfoundation.org/
What is it about that regime that the companies are so evil
I stopped dealing with those printers 12y ago. Printing should be between me and my printer, nobody else (ideally)
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Second, I've been recommending EcoTank printers to our customers. Problem is, the bastards tend to go buy shit and only then let us know they needed a new printer... 🤬