Who doesn’t love the shit-ton of bloatware that installs with their print drivers? It’s even better when they remove the support web sites so the bloatware crashes.
My wife and I were at an office store buying a printer a couple of years ago and, after the saleswoman had already sold us on one, I made some kind of joke about how maybe *this* one will be reliable and not make us jump through all kinds of hoops. The saleswoman looked like I’d just kicked her puppy and seemed to have no idea why anyone could possibly doubt the reliability of a printer.
Never again. Had one that would not print black and white without the color cartridges. Proceeded to buy the color cartridges and then after 6 months of very little use it would tell me the ink level was zero. Where did the ink go? I took a cartridge apart and there was plenty of ink.
Well, my experience with my current HP means I will never buy an HP again. I have a printer with a scanner. Irritates me that I have to login to HP in order to use MY scanner. Also, the BS of the used toner collector.
I’ve got a useless lump of plastic sitting in the corner of my home office. It used to be an HP Envy printer until I decided I didn’t want to pay a subscription fee for ink I rarely used.
When my subscription lapsed the printer became unusable and now is just gathering dust.
So I will join in with everyone when I say “GO FUCK YOURSELF, HP!”
CandylandCanada says
They are not succeeding at their goal.
Hmmletmec says
>The accompanying caption claims: “No more installations fails with the HP Smart app.”
A failed install isn’t why we hate you. It’s that you brick the entirety of the printer, scanner, and copper, if we don’t buy your expensive ass ink.
+5 extra points of hate for your subscriptions bullshit.
#TeamBrotherForLife
nowhereman1223 says
So they allow refills?
Got rid of subscription BS?
And allow the other features of the device to work even when it doesn’t have a full genuine HP ink cartridge?
nowhereman1223 says
You know you have failed as a company when you have to make an ad saying you are designing your stuff to be less hated.
jaedence says
Fuck HP.
Never again. And I work for an MSP and we used to be an HP shop.
TheSystemZombie says
The balls on HP to just blatantly lie like this, I swear
Isthatyourfinger says
Who doesn’t love the shit-ton of bloatware that installs with their print drivers? It’s even better when they remove the support web sites so the bloatware crashes.
ZachTheCommie says
Coming from the company with the most hated printers.
NewLibraryGuy says
My wife and I were at an office store buying a printer a couple of years ago and, after the saleswoman had already sold us on one, I made some kind of joke about how maybe *this* one will be reliable and not make us jump through all kinds of hoops. The saleswoman looked like I’d just kicked her puppy and seemed to have no idea why anyone could possibly doubt the reliability of a printer.
epsilonzer0 says
Never again. Had one that would not print black and white without the color cartridges. Proceeded to buy the color cartridges and then after 6 months of very little use it would tell me the ink level was zero. Where did the ink go? I took a cartridge apart and there was plenty of ink.
GoatsUnlimited says
I had an hp printer in 2001 that pissed me off so much i will never ever ever consider anything with their label on it even if paid to do so.
Chasman1965 says
Well, my experience with my current HP means I will never buy an HP again. I have a printer with a scanner. Irritates me that I have to login to HP in order to use MY scanner. Also, the BS of the used toner collector.
Lokarin says
Still not made to work, tho
residentdunce says
I’ve got a useless lump of plastic sitting in the corner of my home office. It used to be an HP Envy printer until I decided I didn’t want to pay a subscription fee for ink I rarely used.
When my subscription lapsed the printer became unusable and now is just gathering dust.
So I will join in with everyone when I say “GO FUCK YOURSELF, HP!”
Davidsda says
I work for an IT help desk, I think the only reason I like my job is that there are no HP printers in the building.