HP is doing a lot of advertisement lately, the boycott must show first fruits. Fuck HP.
What, “decent”? They’re just jumping on the AI bandwagon.
It uses AI to rearrange and resize content when you are printing from the internet. The example is pretty compelling, but doesn’t make up for everything else HP does.
Yup, it’s a cool feature and I’ll be sure to get some kind of open source tool that leverages my own computer ressources and isn’t tied to such a terrible printer to do it.
When I print something, I certainly don’t want AI messing with it. I often use a printed copy to make sure something will fit before I 3D print it or have a PCB made. I need it to print exactly at 100% scale.
I would love to have the page cleanup feature built into my web browser though. Hardly any sites include a print layout anymore.
Hi HP, I want my printer boring as it should be
Right? And what do you mean, untrustworthy? If anything, HP artificially created that issue lol
Huge article and it’s just “Perfect Output” an AI to adjust printer settings and page setup. Don’t read this waste of time.
One could use Perfect Output to quickly fix image sizes and remove ads and white space when printing something off a website, HP says as an example.
So Reader Mode for printing?
That seems like a feature that would be better handled by the browser than the printer—this is the equivalent of implementing reader mode by adding AI to your monitor.
Or… just copy the text that you want to print in libreoffice and print from there
Moreover, I don’t understand why HP is wasting lots of server processing power for this. If someone prints one page instead of 47, then they can downgrade from the highest plan of their ink subscription with 100 monthly pages to the lowest cheapest plan with only 15 pages. Maybe they plan to include a page with sponsored coupons in the printout?
