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

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[–] 74 points 11 months ago (6 children)

What morons are buying HP printers?

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    Cheap upper management who will see the low price on a printer and will not listen to any of your arguments, explanations, emails, documents, begging, pleading...
    Guess who had to support 4 HP Ink Tank pieces of shit at his last job?
    I had to reinstall the drivers for those heaps of e-waste almost daily, nothing else could fix them 🙃

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