Officejet 8600 Stops Printing When HP Wants More Money

This is jaw-dropping outrageous that an expensive product like this includes firmware that locks out users whenever the company needs another shot of cash from over-priced ink cartridges. And then HP has the gall to pay third-party hacks to pose as "HP Technical Experts" to sell customers stories about technical fairy tales about the clogged print heads. Yeah, right. I can hear the marketing people laughing and wringing their hands as they made up that story. Technical issues aside, there's a principle here that I refuse to condone. I'll be at Staples tomorrow morning, and it won't be to purchase HP print cartridges, it will be to purchase a color laser from Brother. I've been buying HP printers since 1990. This was my last. The thing that put me over the top was the phony-balony "Technical Expert" who pushes the company sales pitch on this forum. HP needs to learn to play straight, and hired hacks who post company propaganda on forums is flat-out dishonest.

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