HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

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    1 year ago

    My Canon ink jet has done well for years on cheap third party ink. It does color and even decent photo, and created many excellent school presentations for my kids. However it’s likely my last printer.

    I don’t even know the last time I printed something, it’s always been for the kids’ schools and now they’re old enough to have no more of those

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      1 year ago

      Problem with Canon is dwindling driver support. The only PC that I can use to print on my MP560 is my Windows server, and that’s simply because it’s the only Windows box in my house. Linux and Mac both do not have native support. The Mac kexts are ancient and it looks like Linux never got proper support.