Having features to a thing you bought locked behind an account only serves to discourage people being used things since a good chunk of people will either don’t know how or are too lazy to remove their account from said thing.
Given that it’s a HP printer, I can almost guarantee you that it’s only linked up to an account so the previous user could use the printing subscription. There’s absolutely no security reason for doing this.
Having features to a thing you bought locked behind an account only serves to discourage people being used things since a good chunk of people will either don’t know how or are too lazy to remove their account from said thing.
Given that it’s a HP printer, I can almost guarantee you that it’s only linked up to an account so the previous user could use the printing subscription. There’s absolutely no security reason for doing this.