[PLUG] Another reason to NOT buy HP

[Vedanta Teacher]

I had a similar problem with MS turning off my Word and Office
functions by remote after I had purchased a full licence & demanding
blackmail,  er.. more money to turn the software back on.
What it came down to for me was this:
If I write something in MS Word who owns the intellectual property
rights? I think MS does. So, I switched to Libre Office.

Blessings,
Paul W

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, King Beowulf wrote:
>
> >> HP just made it impossible to use third-party ink in its printers
> > --snip---
>
> > Also, over the decades, I've had mixed experiences with 3rd-party ink.
> > For lasers, in an FDA CGMP regulated pharmaceutical lab, HP cartridges
> > on good archival paper were always superior. The front office used
> > cheaper generics where the fused ink tended to flake off the page. For
> > inkjets, generic cartridges tended to clog more often and the ink tended
> > to bleed on the page.
>
>    FWIW, I buy refilled HP laser cartridges for both the LJ-5 monochome
> and 2550L
> color at Cartridge World and they've all worked great for me. My inkjet
> experience (with an large format HP deskjet) was not happy because I used
> it
> infrequently and the print heads would clog. Heads and color cartridges
> were
> separate and cost $75 each; that's an expensive replacement cost.
>
>    Ed's correct that many of us print infrequently. I'll stick with my old
> HP
> laser printers as long as I can.
>
> Rich
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