In addition to tracking the printer’s online or offline status, page count, and ink levels, your rented printer will look at the types of documents you’re printing (e.g., PDF, JPG, Word), the types of devices that initiated the print job, “peripheral devices,” and other “metrics” related to the service, the All-In Plan’s terms read. This is on top of the personal information HP collects upon initiating the plan, like your location and your company name (if you have one). By signing up for the service, the terms say, you “grant to HP a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, copy, store, transmit, modify, create derivative works of and display [your] non-personal data for its business purposes.”
You’d have to be a complete mental deficient to go out and consciously decide to buy a brand new HP product in 2024. Every single day it’s more bad publicity for HP and yet they don’t receive any consumer backlash that lasts longer than the breath required to complain about it.
Ain’t nobody printing much anymore, just shit companies finding ways to squeeze what customers are left. I got a b&w brother printer years ago and it’s been doin just fine without all the extra “features”. If brother went the way hp is going I wouldn’t have a printer at home anymore.
My 4 year old brother all in one was one of the best home purchases I’ve made.