1. At first the printer works well. This causes reviewers, who only use the printer a few times when it's new, to write a good review.
2. It lets them keep the up-front price of their printers low. Most people only consider up-front cost and not total cost of ownership. It also helps with getting a good review.
3. They get some recurring revenue from customers who don't want to deal non-name-brand ink. They just want their printer to work and they're willing to pay.
Brother, on the other hand, is slightly more expensive but is better built and works with off-brand ink. We have a brother laser printer and it's great. The ink doesn't dry out like an inkjet, we can buy ink from wherever, and it doesn't break down every few months.
I just hope that brother understands that going HP-mode would probably give a short-term bump but hurt their name in the long run.
I have bad news for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
The problems all seem to be on the inkjet side. Aside from needing to print photos... laser printers are cheaper, more reliable, have higher quality output, and don't need special drivers. (And for the special case of photos, dedicated 4x6 dye sublimation printers are better than inkjet anyway.)
I had to actually transfer the chips from hp toner to the generic ones. And now it still complains that they're "empty" but at least it's possible to print.
My Samsung color laser before that did the same.
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It just burns the paper and is usually good enough for majority of your needs.
Keep a cheap ink based printer handy because the world hasn't moved on yet
I can't believe it's come to this but are team Xecutor busy?