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The temptation of the dark side... (lemmy.world)

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[-] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 82 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Actually, I don't think this is a fitting meme.

This isn't a rent-seeking, wallet rape bullshit "subscription" (like BMW heated seats), it's a legitimate subscription service where they just order and ship a product automatically for you on a regular schedule (like Amazon) and give you a discount. Also, you're not forced to purchase a subscription, you can just buy retail cartridges if you prefer.

This actually makes a lot of sense for people who print regularly and frequently.

Edit: it has been pointed out to me that there is, in fact, some tomfuckery involved with this subscription model

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Ok I'll take that.

(Still funny though.)

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Did you just laugh at your own joke?

It is... acceptable.

[-] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Oh, so like Dollar Shave Club but for printer ink? Really, it's a little surprising that hasn't happened before 2023. Or maybe it has?

[-] SpicyPeaSoup@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Call it the Dollar Per Page Club

[-] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Yes, exactly like that

[-] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Before I bought a brother printer, I would just buy and/or refill whatever cartridges I could get for my printers because of HP’s and Canon’s bullshit. Now that I own a Brother, I only buy toner and cartridges directly from them. Vote with your wallets, people.

[-] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Yep, Brother is the GOAT. I bought a basic Brother laser printer 10 years ago for a hundred bucks and I've replaced the toner, like, twice. Never given me a single problem.

[-] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

same here

my decade old brother laser printer is a fricken tank

I'll never buy anything else (hell, I may not need to buy anything else)

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

Brother also makes sewing machines and haven’t attempted to put DRM on thread. Yet.

[-] debunker@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

HP has that business model for quite a while already

[-] NessD@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

And if you want to pay more as it is based on pages and not ink usage. Also, apparently the cartridge gets disabled as soon as you cancel.

[-] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Oh, that, I was not aware of. Okay, that is a kinda bullshitty.

[-] tj111@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Could you elaborate on the tomfuckery? I'm not seeing it here.

[-] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Someone else in this reply chain mentioned that the ink will be disabled if you cancel the subscription.

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I thought that was an HP thing.

[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

and it made them money, so now everyone's doing it.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I suppose people are afraid this is the first step towards the awful subscriptions all the other companies milk dry. If brother wanted to be different, you would expect them to be marketing about it right and left.

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah I'm a big fan of my brother laser

Bought it in 2020 the second we got work from home orders and just replaced the toner about 36 months later. About the same price as 19 drops of ink you get from HP or Canon

[-] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

look into chipless printing.

IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

https://inkchip.net/

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

I've never needed to change a printer chip, so this doesn't look useful to me. Did I misunderstand something?

[-] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Big brands like Epson and Canon have verification chips on their proprietary ink containers and also 'read ink levels' that simply stop your printer from functioning even if it has ink if their cartridges drip below a certain level, sometimes as high as 50%. It's a scammy practice to fraudulently sell you more ink even if you haven't run out but the ink is now considered out of date or some bullshit.

I assume this is a way to circumvent your printers crap and make it print until the ink runs out. The websites not particularly clear on that.

[-] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Funnily enough i hade the opposite problem with my Canon: Ink cartridges getting empty for some reason, reporting the printer that they still had ink, the printer failing to pull in ink and then telling me that my cartridges can't be original.

I swapped the original cartridges with other original cartridges only to get the same problem a few weeks later. I swapped the printer head and started using refillable cartridges that automatically reset the fill state when disconnected from the printer and so far the printer keeps working.

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Ah, that. Nice to know there's a way around it.

[-] Mechanize@feddit.it 4 points 11 months ago

I get an eye opening "Error establishing a database connection".

My life will never be the same! 😭

[-] Dee@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Oh shit, thanks for this.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 11 months ago

[Everyone hated that]

But seriously, we should just start a "non shitty printer company" that just makes.. non shitty printers

[-] Reddit_was_fun@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

A few have tried…

Kodak did this a few years but the big printer companies slashed prices in the printers to next to nothing. Kodaks $200 printer with cheap ink, huge cartridges, and no chips didn’t sell well when Canon would have a similar printer (scan, print, etc) for $49 next to it. Consumers are dumb.

Brother’s eco tank is close… but if they are killing that off in the name of ink selling greed as this meme suggests…

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 11 months ago

Hmmm, well actually it looks like it's been a thing for a while: https://www.therecycler.com/posts/brother-launches-ez-print-subscription-service/

[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

I had a Kodak printer. The first reload I put in it was off brand and it proceeded to immediately brick itself. Refused to recognize any cartridges even the originals.

Also EcoTank is Epson, super duper recommend. I use to sell printers and I would only sell Brother and Epson.

If you've got any questions about them I still have my Epson contact in my phone

[-] SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net 6 points 11 months ago

But then we can't make all the money. Won't some one think of the shareholders for once

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 11 months ago

Damn I forgot about that. Shareholders > Customers

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 11 months ago

It might just be cheaper to raise squid and make your own ink cartridges.

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Omg

[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

That's it. That's the end of printers as I know it. Thankfully the last time I needed to print anything was over a year ago.

[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

i recommend the Epson Eco-Tank line of models. they refill using bottles which are not cheap either, but they have no way of disabling your printer arbitrarily.

[-] iconic_admin@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Brother! You were our last hope! Why!?

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