I’ll start: printers.
I bought an HP in March 2020 when my job went remote and HP bricked it remotely after only 100 pages because I wouldn’t sign up for their subscription program. Ended up trashing a perfectly good printer.
Luckily my library’s close by and I can print there remotely.
Boy, do I have good news for you!
https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer/
Thank you! I’m okay with walking over to the library to print, though.
It’s fun getting to express my socialist sensibilities in that way.
[rant]Same; however, my local library has the shittiiiessssttt system in place for paying. Half the time the cards don’t work and they’re not reloadable so if there’s like 5 cents left you have to print one single page to use it up. I have 4 or 5 cards now with less than ten cents left on them. They say there’s a new system in the works but I think they only have enough money to pay one person to do it because it’s been a really long time.[/rant]
That’s aggravating. It’s paid for by our taxes here in KC. Each user gets an allotment. (I think it’s daily, but not sure.)
For responsible printing that’s wonderful.
At our library I quickly learned that people want to just print entire reams of nonsense, like web pages that were clearly not made for printing and waste entire pages on like one graphic, and then 35 pages of comments because this person didn’t know how to select certain pages or use “print preview”
…So they pay 10¢ a page. Lol
For some reason the open printer uses HP ink cartridges, so I’m sure it’ll be great right up until HP decides to jack up the price and/or discontinue them.
No, they use the generic refillable cartridges as well. They just use that style of cartridge, not a specific brand.
All hp printheads are “refillable”. The problem is that the printhead itself is not designed to last more than a refill.
HP doesn’t sell those standalone, all the generic refillable cartridges compatible with HP are hand picked from e-waste in some third world country, then cleaned, primed and sold as “new”
You can buy generic new versions of the cartridge. They are not washed. They are not reused heads, they have never seen the inside of a printer. I have been using them in my printer for over a decade and have never used a rebuilt cartridge.
EDIT: Sorry for the link, these are the cartridges I use in mine. The manufacturer listed them as new, not rebuilt.
https://i.postimg.cc/MKq4VZSf/IMG-20260712-091512.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/m2BqCZsz/IMG-20260712-091519.jpg
DOUBLE EDIT: Thinking about it more, my HP printer is very old so perhaps there’s a mechanic implemented in newer printers and cartridges that I don’t have to defeat, which would make my argument incorrect for that cartridge.
Why the hell would they use hp cartridges?!
Edit
Oh it’s refillable, that’s fine then
No, it’s not. They aren’t built to last regardless of being refillable. They’ll need to be replaced.
They used that generic design, not actual HP cartridges. You don’t have to order a replacement from HP, there are several third party refillable cartridge manufacturers, and 3-D printer designs for the cartridges.
This sounds great! Except nowhere do they say how much one will cost, they’re currently in the “drive demand before campaign launch” phase.
I bet it’s gonna be like five hundred bucks. That’ll suck.