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[Auto Addict]

Signed up for the free ink 15 page a month deal.

In 4 years it's cost me £6 for going over the 15 page limit.

Still on the original cartridges.

 

[Shackeng]

Signed up for the free ink 15 page a month deal.

In 4 years it's cost me £6 for going over the 15 page limit.

Still on the original cartridges.

 

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Haven’t seen this. Linky?

[Auto Addict]

Signed up for the free ink 15 page a month deal.

In 4 years it's cost me £6 for going over the 15 page limit.

Still on the original cartridges.

 

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Haven’t seen this. Linky?

https://instantink.hpconnected.com/uk/en/l/

[Shackeng]

 

[henryd]

I have used instant ink for a while now and its very good although printer needs to be on wifi so HP can monitor ink use

[pscocoa]

Used it for some years now - no complaints. Inks last lunch longer. Best printer/ scanner I have ever had - cost me £15 and small running costs.

[Shackeng]

Unfortunately my HP 1512 isn’t on the list. 

[henryd]

Unfortunately my HP 1512 isn’t on the list. 

My HP Envy 4527 is on the list and only cost 30 quid including ink from Tesco,once those inks are gone you can use the service

[Marks DTM Calib]

Been using it for about 3 years, been through about 8 cartridges in that period at 4 quid a month (or something like that).

The major bonus is you don't have to think about anything, ink is just there when you need it 

[TheBoy]

I have a strange aversion to HP products for some reason, cant think why

That said, my printer is one of their Color Laserjets (yes, Andy B, the Shermans cant spell), and it is by far the best printer I have ever owned by some significant margin.  The HP Connected stuff is disabled though, so they cant remotely fik it up.

[Shackeng]

I bought my HP1512 in part as an Ad claimed its print options included A5 which it didn’t. HP customer service were excellent and provided a software download to fix it. 

[TheBoy]

When I first started at HP, I happened to get into a face to face "discussion" on why HP consumer printers (ie, non business inkjets) were pretty substandard, and was treated to a barrage of why, despite being premium priced, "they did not need to be good, just barely good enough", and how the HP brand would help sales despite the poor quality.

In my time there, R&D moved from the Western world to "low cost countries" (ie, Indian Subcontinent), and support moved from a Follow-the-Sun model to Bestshoring (ie, Indian subcontinent).

Now, at the risk of sounding racist - which I ain't - I can assure you that our friends in Bangalore are utterly hopeless when it comes to technology, and if it mostly works, that'll do. Security is never considered, nor is code maintenance.  Those involved with software development now will have seen this mentality creep in over here, due to how much is subcontracted over to Asia.


I'm sure other companies are similar to HP, but the utter contempt they treated their consumer customers has left a sour taste for me,  Business customers were equally buttraped - you spend £25k on that shiny new server, and it needs a firmware update or a driver update? You aint getting it until you've bought a support contract first.

[Shackeng]

Well I can only speak for myself, but my HP 1512 printer, now a few years old, was dirt cheap, does everything I need, and I repeat my above quote. 

[TheBoy]

Grrr, a long reply with loads of example models about HP following Sony and losing the plot....

...but my useless bloody stupid pathetic pointless heap of shite Wifi dropped, and the post was lost.


But if the printer is working well for you, excellent .  I doubt I will ever have another HP Inkjet.

[STEMO]

Grrr, a long reply with loads of example models about HP following Sony and losing the plot....

...but my useless bloody stupid pathetic pointless heap of shite Wifi dropped, and the post was lost.


But if the printer is working well for you, excellent .  I doubt I will ever have another HP Inkjet.

Did I mention my Wi-fi is fine?

BT want me to upgrade to Halo 1 for an extra £5 a month. 100Mbs and, since it's an engineer visit, I'm presuming FTTP.

[TheBoy]

Unfortunately, from my bathroom, I can see around 60 devices announcing they are APs on the 2.4GHz band, and every single channel except 12 has something centred on it. Which essentially means that 2.4GHz wifi is not really working for anyone unless they are on top of their routers.

Now, if the eedjits reconfigure to be just on the non overlappers - ie, 1 and 6 only (11/13 needs far too much cooperation), it would work well for everyone.

I notice Sky routers are a bad offender (unlikely to be routers fault, probably Sky Support are shite), followed closely by 2 HP Envy printers (Envy = expensive+unreliable ).

[STEMO]

I've had my HP printer/scanner/copier  for about 8 years. It still does the business, even on Wi-fi. I don't use it much but, if I lived by you, I'd leave it switched on all day. And night 

[Auto Addict]

Unfortunately, from my bathroom, I can see around 60 devices announcing they are APs on the 2.4GHz band, and every single channel except 12 has something centred on it. Which essentially means that 2.4GHz wifi is not really working for anyone unless they are on top of their routers.

Now, if the eedjits reconfigure to be just on the non overlappers - ie, 1 and 6 only (11/13 needs far too much cooperation), it would work well for everyone.

I notice Sky routers are a bad offender (unlikely to be routers fault, probably Sky Support are shite), followed closely by 2 HP Envy printers (Envy = expensive+unreliable ).

On 5GHz I can't see any overlappers

[TheBoy]

I've had my HP printer/scanner/copier  for about 8 years. It still does the business, even on Wi-fi. I don't use it much but, if I lived by you, I'd leave it switched on all day. And night 

Not that it would work

[TheBoy]

Unfortunately, from my bathroom, I can see around 60 devices announcing they are APs on the 2.4GHz band, and every single channel except 12 has something centred on it. Which essentially means that 2.4GHz wifi is not really working for anyone unless they are on top of their routers.

Now, if the eedjits reconfigure to be just on the non overlappers - ie, 1 and 6 only (11/13 needs far too much cooperation), it would work well for everyone.

I notice Sky routers are a bad offender (unlikely to be routers fault, probably Sky Support are shite), followed closely by 2 HP Envy printers (Envy = expensive+unreliable ).

On 5GHz I can't see any overlappers

Everyone around here has their 5G on the same channel. I guess that the bloke down the pub has only misinformed them about 2.4Ghz

5.8GHz here has very limited range (its never the best) a lot of the time, depending which way the nearby yanks have their antennas pointing.

This is my issue, as I tend to use 5.8GHz, because it works best, but occasionally its range won't get through 1-2 walls - probably due to the yanks - so the devices fall back to 2.4Ghz, which is guaranteed to lose my posts.

"RAF" Croughton* is the reason that 2.4GHz is essential around here.  If only people would set them up responsibly.



* USAF base. Famous for the Yankee bird knocking that kid off his bike by driving on the wrong side of the road.

[MikeDundee]

I was on this instant ink thing with HP, but still ended up going out and buying cartridges , just removed the subscription last month, then got charged 99p for using/printing some pages, now that pissed me off, HP ink I bought, not provided by them and they charge me for using my own paper and printing, just not right