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“Prices range from $6.99 per month for a plan that includes an HP Envy printer (the current model is the 6020e) and 20 printed pages. The priciest plan includes an HP OfficeJet Pro rental and 700 printed pages for $35.99 per month.”

So their low-volume plan is 35¢/page, scaling down to 5¢/page. That’s obscene, but not surprising. Corporate greed has been HP’s stock-in-trade for many years now.

So ironic that they call the printer “Envy.” It’s been decades since I envied anyone with an HP printer.

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Actually it's >= $36/page if you pick the plan and print one or no pages. I'd say most people don't have a predictable printing volume and they're just praying on that. It's corporate madness they would be willing to burn their brand over this.

I had bought in to their $20 printer with free printing for life up to like 10 pages a month they offered years back. The printer took forever to setup, the cartridge never worked the month after (the ink dried perhaps?) and eventually they reneged on the deal altogether. The experience was deeply frustrating. Then I bought a $350 Brother printer. Worked right out of the box, never dealt with drivers and anything of the sort, prints effortlessly from my phone. I've had reliable printing for years and I'll never look back.

I only buy and recommend Brother. Always just works.

You're better off printing at Kinko's at those prices.

Literally decades. I truly miss the HP 4/4Si series.

Sure they were tanks, but you could do most of the service with a Philips screwdriver. The 2 most common failures were the fuser or a DC controller board and both were simple to replace, imo.

The current HP is a ghoulish parody of the HP that was.

There's a name that keeps coming to mind: Carly Fiorina.

Yeah, laying off 30k emps after a huge merger will make one memorable.

It is a good deal if you get the cheap plan and print 20 8.5x11" full quality photos. If you are printing documents, get a laser printer.

> 35¢/page

Might as well go to FedEx Office (formerly Kinko's) for that price.

Their Envy laptops were so expensive and bad they made me switch to Mac.

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