My brother laser jet still happily prints.

Subscription-based hardware business models, or anything that is cloud-based have a strong tendency to do this. They sucker you into buying their hardware with rock bottom prices and reasonable subscription fees and slowly they increase the prices and put more and more features and functionalities behind increasing paywalls.

Never buy anything that you don't fully own after paying for it.

Cannon has gotten so bad, that I can't remember what printer brand I hated before them. I am pretty sure it was cannon though.

We solved printing decades ago. What’s the need to constantly add more complexity in pricing? It’s not like there were major breakthroughs in technology or something. Printing is printing.

in the year of our lord below 2023, it is so easy to just go to a print shop the 0.5 times per year you have to print something

The cheapest plan is .10 euro a month per page if you only print 10 pages. (.99 euro, max 10 pages). Just pay a library or kinkos at that point!

omg, fuck these guys

Laughs in Epson Ecotank

Good, HP finally running their printer businesses into the ground. Paperless or bust.

/Shocked pickachu face.
Get 'em hooked, make 'em pay.

dell