[ptsal]

[snip]Printer cartridges soon bristled with "security chips" that use cryptographic protocols to identify and lock out refilled, third-party, and remanufactured cartridges. These chips were usually swiftly reverse-engineered or sourced out of discarded cartridges, but then the printer companies used dubious patent claims to have them confiscated by customs authorities as they entered the USA. (We’ve endorsed legislation that would end this practice.)

[snip] HP's latest gambit challenges the basis of private property itself: a bold scheme! With the HP Instant Ink program, printer owners no longer own their ink cartridges or the ink in them. Instead, HP's customers have to pay a recurring monthly fee based on the number of pages they anticipate printing from month to month;

[ptsal]

The printer a useful tool...no more.

[wally_bert]

Another reason to avoid Has Problems stuff.

Laser printers are the better way to go.

I’m not a paper addict. A toner cartridge lasts me several years.

Printers are evil incarnate.

[Flick Lives]

“Print is dead.”

(Egon - Ghostbusters 1984)

[where's_the_Outrage?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYfiKt6n3M

[BuffaloJack]

I stopped using HP products about 10 years ago.
Their hardware (PCs, printers, scanners, etc.) is really good, but they abandon driver support a year or two after you buy their crap and you can’t use the stuff without current drivers.
I use Brother printers and scanners now.

[zeugma]

I have a Brother laser printer/scanner. It works fine with CUPS, and is one of the very few devices that actually makes Linux-specific drivers available. The cartridge that I have in the device has been in use for a couple of years so far, and I have no idea how much longer it will last, as I print very little. HP lost me forever back when Carly did everything she could to destroy what was once a great engineering company.

Thankfully Brother doesn't play any of the stupid games that HP and other printer makers do.

[Justa]

Brother inkjet. <$1 per ink cartridges on ebay. Similar on Amazon.

I always buy printers based on cost of ink cartridges. If brother blocks the ink cartridge resellers then I’ll move to the next manufacturer who doesn’t.