Whither HP Printers?
I am around a lot of printers at work. Epson, Okipage, Lexmark, Dell-branded Lexmarks and, of course, HP.
I have noticed something. Sometime from 1999 to 2001 HP decided "You know what, screw making good printers, let's make them pretty instead."
We have a ton of old-ass HP printers that are absolute workhorses. They are kind of slow now, yes, but they work and work and work and work and work.
Any new HP we get now has colored plastic hanging every which way and it doesn't work for shit. There is one little deskjet where the ink cartridge bay is so delicate I fear even looking at it lest I bounce a photon off it and watch it crumble. Flimsy, putrid garbage.
The big boy laser printers are still pretty good but they are no longer the Rock Of Gibraltar monoliths I grudgingly give up to retirement every month or so.
Not to mention new purchasing habits where everyone gets their own little piece-of-shit inkjet instead of sharing one laser.
I still have some Apple-branded HPs out there churning out page after page without a care in the world. We're stocked to the gills with toner and I'll be damned if you take it from me!
Why did HP do this? Why do they hate me?
WOE!
I have noticed something. Sometime from 1999 to 2001 HP decided "You know what, screw making good printers, let's make them pretty instead."
We have a ton of old-ass HP printers that are absolute workhorses. They are kind of slow now, yes, but they work and work and work and work and work.
Any new HP we get now has colored plastic hanging every which way and it doesn't work for shit. There is one little deskjet where the ink cartridge bay is so delicate I fear even looking at it lest I bounce a photon off it and watch it crumble. Flimsy, putrid garbage.
The big boy laser printers are still pretty good but they are no longer the Rock Of Gibraltar monoliths I grudgingly give up to retirement every month or so.
Not to mention new purchasing habits where everyone gets their own little piece-of-shit inkjet instead of sharing one laser.
I still have some Apple-branded HPs out there churning out page after page without a care in the world. We're stocked to the gills with toner and I'll be damned if you take it from me!
Why did HP do this? Why do they hate me?
WOE!
Comments
If the next CEO has any sense, he'll try to bring them back. They weren't the parts of the company that were doing poorly, and certainly the problem with the company was not that it made really good stuff.
Part of me is hoping that the next CEO is a woman, if only to shut up the people wondering if OMG WILL NE1 EVAR HIRE TEH WOMAN CEO AGAIN!!!1. As long as they realize, respect and restore what was right about that company.
Originally posted by Amorph
Part of me is hoping that the next CEO is a woman, if only to shut up the people wondering if OMG WILL NE1 EVAR HIRE TEH WOMAN CEO AGAIN!!!1. As long as they realize, respect and restore what was right about that company.
I'm not commenting on this, laughed when I read it
If this thread is about buying printers, you should probably look up who has the cheapest ink and the best quality..
I read an article a while ago about it, I know canon was way better than HP (I know because I bought a canon afterwards, after years of being a HP guy), but I don't remember the order exactly.
Anyways, printers are usually sold at a loss so they can sell ink later, therefore you should probably get a printer that A) suits your needs and has cheap ink. I paid $30 more for my canon i960 and have probably saved $100 in the past year on ink as a result.