In the Sept 30, 2024, installment of Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow explains how HP ruined so much more than ink jet printers. (He calls it Printerinisation).
https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/life-finds-a-way/#ink-stained-wretches
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HP is responsible for forcing the entire printer industry towards forcing the entire printer buying public to only buy big-ass behemoths that do everything, instead of streamlining towards smaller more convenient types of devices. Where are thermal & dot matrix printers today (they were so simple)? You definitely won't find them on a sales floor.
@jjGravitas Good point.