Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Your Printer is Now a Subscription”.
Hp has actually launched a printer subscription, as hinted at previously in a wildly unpopular interview with CEO, Enrique lores hp’s Allin plan offers customers an option of three rented printers and a scaling monthly fee. The cheapest plan is $ 7 a month. Oh, my God and has a cap of 20 pages per month. I was trying to stay calm, but what the ho crap dude 20 Pages a month for seven. I could literally go to Costco and print like photos for that. There’S a 12-day grace period, after which the customer will be forced into a 2-year commitment or a cancellation fee that is worth a significant fraction of the retail cost of the printer. That fee then doubles after 30 days, meaning that, if you attempt to to return the printer three 13 days after sign up it’ll cost more than buying the printer outright, this is complete Madness.
I feel like a scam. Hp will replace a printer if it starts to fail, or after it’s been in use for 2 years. The printer also informs HP whenever it’s running out of ink, which HP will send to the customer for no additional charge. Okay, so it includes ink, that’s something: yeah 20 Pages for $ 7 a month.
That’S $ 85 a year, I’m not going to spend that on ink $ 85 a year for for 240 pages of text. Are you kidding, [ Laughter? ] me HP is marketing. This subscription, as a way to leave behind the hassle and NeverEnding struggle of owning a printer, hey, HP. I’Ve got another idea to take away the hassle and NeverEnding struggle of owning a printer. Don’T buy aing HP printer. How about that cool? What’S the different okay? So the the plan isn’t, the scaling of the plan is by printer, I’m looking at their official site right now, um and so in hpah says: all 20 of my pages will be solid.
Black you’re still getting host HP Envy is seven bucks a month. The HP Inspire is n bucks a month, the HP office. No, no. I got to interrupt you here why the is voodoo PC branding being used on printers remember when they bought Voodoo PC, so they could use the Envy brand the Envy.
Why is that? On a white boring, rectangular printer who he is of, do you know what a voodoo Envy looked like? Okay, this yeah they was sick. This is a voodoo Envy hold on one moment, please uh: where is it? Oh? Actually, I stand corrected. This is an omen. Okay, so this was their uh.
This was they did this goldplated one. This was a a gaming PC, yeah uh hold on. I forget what the Envy was. No, no, the Envy was their laptop okay hold on hold on. Let me find it. Let me find it.
Okay, um there. Okay, this this is a voodoo Envy. Can I go back to your computer yeah? That is not an Envy anything. It’S an Envy Inspire! No, it isn’t it neither inspires Envy. Nor does it Inspire anything else. Look at it moderate! I I this this whole thing sucks.
Like look look at this one sec. Okay, so I got the printers right. Bambi says: maximum speed of 10 pages per minute, so you get two minutes of printing per month. I uh imagine a car that you could have drive for 2 minutes at Max 2 minutes set maximum maximum speedometer speed a month.
U so, if, if, when you click on compare plans, because it just shows these plans right, starting at whatever, when you click at compare plans, it’s just printer specs, there’s! No it it details, nothing. It doesn’t even say how many times you can print yet compare plants. Just printer specs, I love that the I love that the paper tray holds a six-month Supply. The output capacity is 3 months.
You could not clear the output tray on your printer that middle one for 3 months, yeah, okay. So then, so you just print things just so that you can use up your your allocation, not because you actually need the stuff. You just leave it there guys. I know I needed to click customize plan, my my joke.
The joke that I was pointing out was you click compare plan and it doesn’t compare the plan. It just compares the printers anyways. Now that we’re on customize plan, you can select the three different printers, whichever one you want, so let let’s just go with HP Office Jet Pro. It actually looks like that looks like an Office Jet proct.
At least it’s not trying to pretend to be an Envy. Inspire no okay, yeah, I’m actually going to go with Envy Inspire, because this is this is like a if you wanted a nice printer for at home. Right seems about right. I don’t know sure, looks pretty much the same as the printers we used to sell. When I was at Best Buy um 13 bucks a month is 100 Pages a month $ 9 a month is 20 Pages a month and they put popular on the moderate, which is 100 Pages a month. So they clearly want you to do this because they, I don’t think they expect anyone to get light, so I think the whole 20 ter yeah.
I think it’s like a whatever yeah it’s there so that you look at it and go. Oh, I don’t want that and then you go up to this. Can I propose a different solution? Just buy yourself a cheap color laser laser yeah, the nozzles. Don’T it no you’re not going to be printing photos on it? I’M sorry just do that at Costco uh, but the nozzles don’t get clogged, so you will. Probably, if you are one of those light users, you will probably never replace a toner drum and you will probably never replace that printer uh up until no.
I was about to say up until very recently, but I still have it. I still have my Samsung ml6 or ml2, something whatever it is. Color laser printer. I don’t remember the last time I replaced toner in it and I can still manage to fight my way through driver installations, even though HP these but chugs uh bought Samsung’s printer business and make it really difficult to use old, Samsung printers on new devices. The one thing I couldn’t use it on was Chrome OS.
I had to have something slightly newer to get it to work on Chrome, OS and there’s some like hacky way to set up a relay or something. But I was like, I was say, use my computer. That’S probably the same printer you had when we did the Linux challenge yeah it is, and it was Flawless back then yeah, it’s fine on Linux, but it won’t work on chrom OS because they don’t have the driver and there might be some way to like hack. It in or something I don’t know feel like dealing with it when my desktop was right there and I could just go print it there.
So they say that the hnv Inspire is the popular printer option. If you go down to the standard hpmv, which is probably everything most people need they, they recommend the terrible plan. Oh I see so they only want you buying it for $ 7 a month.
If you have a printer, that’s worth like 70 bucks yeah, I see Office Jet Pro. What do they recommend there? 100 Pages a month on The Office Jet Pro is 7 bucks a month. That is actual Madness.
That’S crazy! My goodness! Please! No one! Do this! Go! Buy a laser printer: let’s learn about uh printers, so laser printer nice, 48 bucks. I have no idea if that one’s any good, but you could almost certainly use the oh. You know what let’s search for color color HP, darn it and that says monochrome dang.
It. Facebook here we go Canon Image, class, color, Wireless all-in-one, laser printer; okay, that’s 250 bucks, that’s a lot, but that’s also a lot of printer um 120 bucks for a Lex Mark. That’S probably not a bad option, especially if it comes with some additional toner.
That’S wild! Actually, what I would want to spend one that’s crazy, probably around a hundred bucks, is what I would targeting here’s 150 Canadian. So that’s more like $ 115 us um, you could probably get that $ 120 one for 100 bucks yep somewhere in that range. If you message him like I’ve got cash, I can come now like it’s a pretty good chance. You’Ll get it that’s what I would be looking for.
The only things you’re going to want to make sure of is that you can still get replacement toner for It. Um and that it still has drivers for your current operating system. If you don’t feel like fighting with things Bart, the tech said that brother one is amazing. Back when I was at Best Buy the Brother, Laser Printers were were like crazy, we’d sell them all the time. No one would ever bring them back. They were great all right, W show after dark.
Let’S go. That was a crazy long time ago. Just so everyone know it’s not an endorsement, I don’t know if they’re still good yeah brother might be your uncle by now yeah it could be yeah, oh Dan’s, getting it all right cool. It would be funny if, like br’s aged, like if brother, if brother actually just became like Uncle at some point, Grandpa great uncle. Oh a great uncle printer Ancient One shut, your printing face Uncle printer – oh my goodness.
Okay, all right, let’s go want some merch messages. My mother is working in dermatology and told me their laser. They use requires a subscription to give treatments.
Have you guys experienced anything for labs that requires a subscription to use that timing of that one worked out. Well, hady man shared this link and it’s actually very funny it’s from The Verge. I want to show it really quick go for it best. Printer 2023 just buy this Brother laser printer.
Everyone has it’s fine, yeah, the brother, whatever it is, will print return. Labels for online ship shopping never run out of toner and generally be a printer instead of a physical instantiation of a business model so funny 120 bucks brand new Brother, laser printer Works sounds good. Like yeah, exactly, I think I’ve had that one for like 12 years, I train I’ve changed the toner cartridge once and you can pretty much just shake them and then they’re good for another six years. It prints black and it’s perfect that article is actually brilliant I’ll scroll.
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Piss take love it, but it’s also right. I don’t know back in the day it s sounds like it might still be true back in the day. The the whole thing was by the best bang for the buck Brother printer and just don’t worry about it. How often do you need to print color black laser yeah forever? It just lasts forever, they’re like a 100 bucks, yeah, 120, apparently yeah, and it comes with Wi-Fi all right back to the subscriptions for things related to Labs. I mean there subscriptions related to pretty much everything you guys. If it’s a commercial product, the manufacturer is trying to turn it into a subscription right now and um.
You know some things are explicitly subscriptions and other things are implicitly subscriptions. We’Ve already had to recertify our chroma power supply tester, for example, recertifications. Okay, it’s not a subscription, but effectively is you buy the product once and then you give them money every year or every two years or whatever the time period is until forever yep? Okay, I you can’t go to anyone else for it, so it’s a subscription right, so uh, absolutely there are. There are definitely uh things that we that we are going to need subscriptions for, but it’s one of those things that you know.
I think that we can in time, do enough testing and create enough value with the testing that we’re doing that. We can um make that department profitable, somehow and um, and and and justify the the few subscriptions that we absolutely need in order to get our work done. I mean obviously we’re going to try to find uh. You know, and rather than subscribing to a you know. Benchmarking service, or something like that, we’re going to try to you know, build our own thing um as much as we can, but you can’t completely avoid it these days, it’s just not possible and in the case of those laser treatments yeah absolutely they just want a Piece of of every transaction: they don’t want to just sell you the equipment and then let you profit off of it forever when they could take a piece of every single time you zap it .