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>>rntn+(OP)
> "Every time a customer buys a printer, it's an investment for us. We are investing in that customer, and if that customer doesn't print enough or doesn't use our supplies, it's a bad investment." - HP CEO

"No HP product could possibly be a good investment for me" - Any & Every Sane Customer

>>bell-c+r1
Maybe they shouldn't sell printers under cost and ink at a 98% profit per sale...

I would buy ink cartridges from the vendors if they were not twice as expensive and utilizing sleezy tactics like lying about being empty.

>>ldough+i4
That's the thing, isn't it? I would gladly pay $500 for "THE LAST PRINTER I WILL EVER NEED TO BUY", $650 if it came with a 10 year parts and labor guarantee.

No one makes what I want to buy.

>>Bizarr+Dt
Every HP printer is the last HP printer you will ever buy.

>>Euphor+lA
Not in the days before Carly Fiorina was driving the ship.

>>tansey+AP
For sure.

A place where I worked in the early 2000s used old-school HP laser printers. The one in my unit cranked through boxes and boxes of paper with no trouble at all. It was all heavy-gauge metal, and must've weighed 50 pounds at least.

Post-Carly, HP printers became the same flimsy Chinese crap as all the other brands. Carly's bright idea was to take flimsy Chinese crap, slap an HP label on it, and sell it for HP prices.

You can get away with that. Once. After that, no one is going to ever buy your overpriced junk again.