And piece of Crap printers and scanners at that.
They couldn’t write software to save their lives.
I gave up on HP long ago
Another PC corporation from Kalipornia dying?
I have bouts of HP driver weirdness on random printers at my facility. Almost all in the newer models. The 4000s and other vintage ones run fine.
A lot of people at my place of employment know me as the guy who hates printers. I don’t have a lot of love for the 170 XIII Zebras either but they don’t flake out anywhere near as much.
I will not have another HP anything personally.
For home I have a BW Brother printer scanner and my wife inherited my 7 or 8 year old Epson 595 that is still going strong. When it dies or the ink just gets unreal (which isn’t that far off), I will get a color laser. It won’t be an HP.
One of HP’s biggest faults is their overwhelming and excessive investment in overseas labor. You have >90% chance of getting someone in India and >95% chance of just getting someone overseas when you call for support. They have very few infrastructure engineers in the US anymore, and that saved them money initially; however, as time has consistently played out since the late 90s, outsourcing critical infrastructure personnel such as your engineers is 100% foolhardy.
I used to be one of their biggest champions, esp. for their hardware. I supported their ProLiant-class server hardware from the old Compaq days all the way through the latest generations. The platform is solid, but they’re not innovating. They’re stagnant, and companies like Cisco are designing integrated hardware platforms now (i.e. UCS) that provide packaged-deal pricing for much less than HP’s CTO or package prices provide.
HP will go down in history as a lesson to all future corporate bigwigs: try to overwhelm or silence your competition, try to buy them out and scuttle their brand through attrition, and the market will respond by out-innovating you.
*coughMicrosoftcough*
What crap mine is. Keeps saying it is out of paper when it is full of the stuff.
Never again.