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HP Stops Selling Printers, Starts Selling Prints
An anonymous reader writes "HP has launched a new line of business printers but there's a big catch — you won't be able to buy one. For the first time in history, the company will make customers purchase printing services, rather than the product itself. At its biggest printer launch since the LaserJet in 1984, HP's new business-class Edgeline printers will only be available through a managed services contract. Pricing will be per page, depending on the quality of the printout. Edgeline technology is said to be so ink-efficient that if HP were to sell these printers, they would never match the money they make from consumables (cartridges etc) now."
... who says they need Carly Fiornia to make stupid decisions...
There is a war going on for your mind.
You must be new here.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Let's go back to the ink efficient days of the DeskJet 400C and fuck these contract based service packages.
What? Are you one of those radical/liberals who place customer value and/or human rights above corporate profits? Infidel! Heathen!
What?
Shit. Thanks for making me feel more dumberer.
That should be "morer dumberer". Sheeshing.
I want a print-out of something so I can mark it up, scribble, etc. If I want the level of quality this thing suggests, I'll take it to a bureau and get it professionally printed and bound.
It also reminds me of an office I worked in back-in-the-day where the copier had an odometer and Xerox charged based on the monthly count; it was cheaper to have a typist re-type the one page or two page document 3 or 4 times. If we needed a lot of copies, which wasn't often, we might take it to the local Kinkos, depending on what we wanted. Xerox eventually canceled the contract because it was more expensive to send a guy to read the meter than what they were billing. Funny thing is, they let us keep the copier.
luckily they got him back when you could still just buy Slashdot Editors and pay once, none of this managed editing services jibberish
We need a grammar Schindler, to save the thousands of grammar mistakes here from the horrible persecution and injustice directed towards them.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
I used the same black and white cartridge for for about three years. Then it ran out of white.
Touche.
Since Oskar Schindler saved thousands of Jews by employing them in his factories, the closest analogue would have to be the Slashdot editors, since they give all those grammar mistakes a place to stay.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
Sure, try this site for a news alternative to Slashdot. Mostly, it's is a little more accurate. Mostly.
"But this one goes to 11!"
So clearly, two -ings in a row are fine ;-)
Fuck the system? Nah, you might catch something.