Laser printers tied to HP’s subscription service have begun disappearing from online marketplaces. The company’s decision to remove them comes amid years of scrutiny over its policies.
What just happened? HP has spent years resisting customer complaints over DRM that restricts users to the company’s expensive ink cartridges. However, HP appears to have bowed to external pressure regarding cheaper laser printers that were saddled with a mandatory subscription service. Existing owners of all HP printers are unaffected.
Laser printers tied to HP’s subscription service have begun disappearing from online marketplaces. The company’s decision to remove them comes amid years of scrutiny over its policies regarding DRM and ink cartridges.
HP told German outlet Druckerchannel that it withdrew the laser printers out of concern for clients that couldn’t keep them connected to cloud services at all times.
