They use the small flash inside the DRM chip in the cartridge to store the telemetry, then the e-waste companies are paid by HP to read and send to the mothership the contents of the chips sent to recycle
What morons are buying HP printers?
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Back in the day the HP Laserjet 2 was the bees knees. They were wicked workhorses that just kept going and going no matter what. Sold a ton of them when they were new.
Fast forward a number of yrs and I went into used computer biz early on with a couple people. Did great. Had this trend of hubbys cleaning out basements at wife’s request bringing in none other than old Laserjet 2’s. Business’ loved them and would buy them soon as we had them. Put an ad in computer papers saying bring in your old HPLJ2’s top dollar. Cleaned and fixed up and they flew out the door. Now you could not pay me to use HP.
Those motherfuckers bricked my printer after 100 pages in 2020, presumably for refusing to sign up for their ink subscription. Really pissed me off to have to throw out a perfectly good printer.
I’m never buying another HP product.
I also stopped buying HP for a nearly identical reason. My brand new printer was 1 day out of warranty, I had gotten it as a gift unboxed it, and it wouldn’t connect to Wi-Fi (had no hardware ports on it only WiFi).
Those fuckers told me I could either:
A. Subscribe to their ink subscription plan and they’d tell me how to fix it.
B. Pay $75 one time and they’d tell me how to fix it.
I threw that motherfucker in the trash that day and then bought a cheap Cannon (no brothers in stock) that still works over a decade later.
Fuck HP completely.
There is not a day that goes by that I don’t wish open source 2d printers where technically easy to make.
I don’t know about being easy to make but it may be easy to buy one soon-ish.
Open Printer (Crowd Supply campaign coming soon).
Yeah, I saw that around. It looks really fucking cool, but it still relies on a proprietary print head IIRC.
I don’t want to be perfectionist, it is a good step in the right direction, so I do still appreciate the project. I especially appreciate that it uses paper rolls instead.
Not to defend this, but
a customer can choose not to store usage data on the memory chip through the control panel.
uh, you believe their assertion of that??
In case you’re actually concerned with my credentials in this area, I’m a person who’s quoting the article.
So what I need to do if I own an HP printer when it’s at end of life is set it on fire in a blast furnace?
As someone that’s worked on them, id recommend just starting out with the blast furnace. It’ll save a ton of headaches down the line.
If it was only that data, it would be relatively innocuous. But they could store anything in there. Maybe they already do, who’s going to trust HP anyway?
I kind of understand their idea of being open,but this only works for some companies, and definitely not those with decades of fucking with and abusing their customers. HP is managed by idiots.
Malevolent, machiavellian, sociopathic idiots.
HP’s sooo far into the negative trustworthiness side of the number-line, that it’s a sickening-shame that no criminal-investigations happen on them, as I simply don’t believe that people that molester-nature are entirely-legal in all their doings.
When they began requiring to have people’s credit-card-info on-file, in order to be able to USE their printers ( I read in the geek-news, sometime in the last few years ), they murdered integrity from their domain.
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when you use italics that often, they start to lose meaning and become very annoying
So downvote me, every time you see my words: make the fediverse be better for your world.
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While you are correct about italics, you inability to know that you are supposed to capitalize the first letter of a sentence earned you a down vote. As it is very annoying.
