If you can afford it, cough up the money for a laser printer. I've had mine for years and only changed the ink once. So much better than ink jet printers, which are a total scam

This thing still frightens me and I have no clue how is it legal.

Enshittified by capitalism

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

Assholes are the printers of peak design.

FTFY

Hahaha. In Germany many people put their not used anymore items just outside of their houses with signs: "to give away". I've found furnitures, books, washing machine??? :D

I mean, if it’s a functional printer and they didn’t want it, that’s an easy way to give it to somebody else to use.

I live in a rural town and people put items like this in front of their homes all the time. I have fixed washers, dryers, etc and had things picked up. If it's there on trash day it gets hauled off.

It's commonly understood, at least where I live in the States, that if you are getting rid of something that still works you can leave it out on the curb for somebody else to take for free, sometimes with a note saying "Free" but usually without it.

When I was young and struggling I got most of my furniture that way. I still even have some of it

it'd require that all OEM's agree to specific standards and they won't because being closed source = $$$.

likewise why no one is reverse engineering printers, there's no $$$ in it

Yes please. HP printers are the dystopia we were warned of. You can't print with the dumb thing even if ink is in it if you don't keep paying for the ink subscription.

We use brother printers at work and they're 10/10. Even with a fresh windows install they just work.

If you do a lot of printing, the Epson Ecotank printer is really good. My wife goes through 2-3 boxes of paper per year. I refill the tanks 2 times per year. A full set of bottles is $45-50.

It's nice that the are going directly opposite that HP.

Just guessing, but she may be a professional pole dancer with a particular skill set

I am really confused, becuase HP Smart Scanner takes like 2-3 min to Scan a page, GNOMs build in Scanner takes 3-5 seconds with the same printer. Like how is your software this bad.

If only our old HP (which's server died years ago) wouldn't rename itself randomly on USB.

But seriously, get a Raspi or similiar and create a printserver. Saver too, than HP's built in.

Let's be honest, probably why the guy was throwing it out lol