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[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

At this point, I am positive the HP printer marketing department, have lost their collective minds.

Most marketing departments are retarded, but this seems to be a new level of dumb. Bricking printers, blocking 3rd party, messing with firmware, price gouging..

Brother are simple, reliable, low cost and dependable. Every one I have used in commercial or watched in home use have been straight up boss. I don't own one, but it will be my next printer when the Epson runs out of ink, mark my words!

[โ€“] tvbusy 1 points 2 years ago

They do it because they're desperate. They're losing customers anyway, may as well try to extract as much as possible when they still can.

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