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‘Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription’ says HP CEO gunning for 2024’s Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al…::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company’s CEO,

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    11 months ago

    Keep waiting on open source printers. They are not easy. Even 300dpi monochrome takes a lot of precision, and that’s not particularly impressive. Get even smaller and add color mixing? No.

    Open source plotter, OTOH, could happen. I think there are some projects out there already.