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HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::"Never own a printer again."

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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'll just print off the odd thing I need a paper copy of from work and continue as I've done for a dexade by puposefully denying myself from the sincere privilege of paying HP another god damned red cent for as long as draw breath, kthxbai. 🖕

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Too bad my old employer stopped allowing employees to access the printers. You have to email your document to a printer admin and they will print it for you.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago

We had that happen too after someone "accidentally" printed 3000 copies of all black.

[–] DEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They literally hired a person to gatekeep the printers? That is such a waste time time. One of the many reasons why corporate sucks.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Oh, they also did the same thing with a nextcloud server. There was some plugin for word or something that they needed for their workflow. But they weren't going pay the $10 for the plugin for every every user. So they licensed it for a few clerical admins (might even be the same as the printer people) and if you needed to share a file with a customer, you emailed it to them and they stuck it on the nextcloud server and emailed the customer.

And another one is Zoom. Again, we had meeting admins with a paid zoom license. So if you wanted a meeting that wouldn't get cut off after 40 minutes, you email the meeting admins and they would schedule it.