Hm, HP-Ink is still making terrible printers? Color me surprised. You will pay more for this printer in a year than it’s worth, that’s the HP way.
They’re fine for people who seldom print but don’t want to run to Fedex Office to print things. (Under 120 pages per year) The document feeder on the 8035e and 6455e are pretty handy for scanning stacks of paper.
Anyone that would be a candidate for HP’s subscription ink should consider an ink-tank printer (HP Smart Tank, Epson Ecotank, Canon Megatank) instead.
That’s a mighty expensive cost per printed page. There’s better options with better customer support. HP is literally bottom of the barrel from my experience. Never again, any product.
Is ink drying up still a problem? Like the color of ink-jet. Last ink-jet I owned you have to buy new ink every 2 years even if you don’t use it. But like ink for pictures.
Been using laser printers for the past 25 years. Buy a laser printer and if you don’t print often a starter toner will last forever. Get more than 3000 pages on most cartridges and last 20+ years. But doesn’t do well on photos.
Can “dynamic security” be turned off on this printer? That’s what HP calls the feature that blocks non-HP cartridges. It made my current printer stop working, but I was able to downgrade the firmware. (And when I checked the list of updates included in the current firmware, exactly one thing was shown: Dynamic Security. Jerk move, HP. Jerk move.)
Wouldn’t the best way of avoiding potential firmware lockouts is to not buy a machine from the company that has a history of doing such? Not that they even want their customers to own it at all …
(Note that I am not staff. I just volunteer to help out on the forums.)
It’s getting harder to find printers that aren’t locked down like that, from any manufacturer. From what I was reading, on some HPs you can, on some you can’t, but for all I know that’s since changed to none. If these were originally meant for the European market, say, and were therefore a little more lax, I might be interested.