What is this ******** they added about putting chips in their cartridges?! Can't buy cheap ones on Amazon anymore or it throws a warning and won't print. Talk about a scam.
New HP Printers
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how is there not a laser that will burn black on a white paper.
mfers can get ai photographs of homer with boobs but we still gotta buy ink cartridges.
mfers can get ai photographs of homer with boobs but we still gotta buy ink cartridges.
It’s not just new ones - my printer scanner that’s at least six or seven years old suddenly wouldn’t print until I signed up for their ink service late last year.
Got a HP laser tank all in one about 2 years ago. It has been wonderful. Only print about 2 pages a month, so the ink always dried up with my old inkjet. Laser doesn’t care. Still in the original toner, but it is my understanding that I just add toner from a bottle rather than a cartridge.
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I had this issue too, if you had their ink service and un-subscribed you can't use the cartridges they sent, you have to get different ones.
What a GD scam.
This should be illegal.
Also, I'll cast another vote for Brother laser. Never look back.
Also, I'll cast another vote for Brother laser. Never look back.
BROTHER all the way to Lincoln Way !!!!
That's been the pricing model for printers for the last 20 years.
Color laser is the only way to go these days IMO. Wasting money on ink cartridges and cheaply made printers is not worth it. I bought a Brother MFC-L3770CDW multi-function color laser I believe maybe late 2020 or sometime in 2021 and it's been the best printer I've ever owned. I still get regular firmware and software/driver updates for it so even at the age I'm impressed Brother is still putting out updates for it as most manufacturers have planned obsolescence of most of their products at a certain age and will stop supporting and putting out updates for it after a few years especially stuff like peripherals and printers.
I joke that you are almost better off buying a new inkjet printer whenever your cartridges run out as you are going to spend about a much on that as you will just buying a new printer. Let's use an example, you can buy a basic HP Deskjet 2842e at Walmart for $49 The HP brand ink cartridge replacement for that runs around $40 for a 2 pack depending on where you look for it. Granted you are going to spend a lot up front for a color laser but you are going to get a lot more longevity out of it plus better quality. Toner does not dry up like ink cartridges do so you are going to get a lot more pages out of a toner cartridge where you could maybe print a little here and there and have your ink cartridge dry up when you aren't using it plus a much faster PPM output than an inkjet if you are doing any kind of high volume printing. I think my printer basically paid for itself in the first year alone not having to go somewhere to get color copies of our Christmas letter.
I joke that you are almost better off buying a new inkjet printer whenever your cartridges run out as you are going to spend about a much on that as you will just buying a new printer. Let's use an example, you can buy a basic HP Deskjet 2842e at Walmart for $49 The HP brand ink cartridge replacement for that runs around $40 for a 2 pack depending on where you look for it. Granted you are going to spend a lot up front for a color laser but you are going to get a lot more longevity out of it plus better quality. Toner does not dry up like ink cartridges do so you are going to get a lot more pages out of a toner cartridge where you could maybe print a little here and there and have your ink cartridge dry up when you aren't using it plus a much faster PPM output than an inkjet if you are doing any kind of high volume printing. I think my printer basically paid for itself in the first year alone not having to go somewhere to get color copies of our Christmas letter.
Yeah, drove me to Brothers laser maybe five plus years ago or so. Ink is a scam.
I will add that I think HP makes some good laser printers too but they usually are priced slightly higher than Brother. Canon makes a decent printer too and is more cost friendly. I would steer clear of Lexmark printers, between owning one myself and the ones I have worked on over the years for work they are not made well and do not have longevity IMO. Their replaceable parts wear out or fail after minimal use where I have seen business class HP printers hold up very well and they are pretty easy to work on too. Sharp is another brand I would probably avoid too and Ricoh is hit or miss from my experience. I've had to tear apart some Ricoh's to pull a hard drive from them and I am amazed at how poorly designed they are that I have to probably take around 30 screws and several panels off just to get to the drive where most MFP printers that have a hard drive usually have a bay that doesn't take much effort to get to.
Bought a color laser from Costco 5 or 6 years ago, have had to replace toner twice. My wife does her mom’s monthly invoices for her business. It’s so much better and long run cheaper than the old ink jets we had.
No offense but its 2025 and you're just now figuring out that HP ink is a scam?
I thought HP had been doing this for years. Pretty Canon has done it for a long time which is why I have a Brother printer now.
I thought HP had been doing this for years. Pretty Canon has done it for a long time which is why I have a Brother printer now.
Yup, just pull it out and shake it a bit and usually that does the trick. I will ignore low toner warnings until the print quality tells me it is time to replace.
HP the worst tech, only company I would 100% tell you not to buy. Had so many problems years and years ago. After all those problems I remember my SIL going to college and I told her as long as you don't get HP it'll be good. School was starting in a week and the options at Walmart were limited, HP had a sale and I said f I don't what to buy otherwise and she got the HP. Bricked 10 days later.
