HP have updated their printers to ban ‘non-HP’ cartridges
For those of you who haven't already, I highly recommend just biting the bullet and switching from HP to Brother for your home printing needs.<p>I was a HP customer for <i>decades</i>. I had models going back to perforated paper dot-matrix printers. Finally last year I had a down-and-out fight to get my HP to do a basic task, and I bit the bullet and ordered a Brother at the recommendation of my friend.<p>My mfc-l3750cdw Brother printer is a bit of a beast, but it does it's job amazingly well. It's 2x the size, weight, and price of my old HP but it's worth every penny for the peace of mind. It prints when I need it to print. It shuts down when it's not printing. It connects to wifi and doesn't try to serve me an ad while doing it. It uses ink logically. And I don't feel like I'm trying to resolve a problem that was effectively solved in 1995.<p>The hard fact is that printers and copiers as a market has been shrinking (outside of China) for years now [1]. It's gone from a necessity to a niche need, and even then people have kinkos / WeWork / their parents house as a backup.<p>HP isn't going back, just switch. Save yourself like I did.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/consumer-electronics/computing/printers-copiers/united-states" rel="nofollow">https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/consumer-electronics/co...</a>