Comments by "Javier Flores" (@JJFlores197) on "The Truth About HP: What Their Ads DON'T Tell You!" video.

  1. I work in school IT support. We have an ungodly amount of HP printers floating around. What's infuriating is that they more or less force you to setup an HP Smart account just to even print! Our "brilliant" food services dept. thought it would be a fantastic idea to waste thousands of dollars about a year ago to upgrade the simple, yet functional, B&W Brother laser printers the cafeteria managers have with color HP MFPs that cost over $500/each. They didn't consult with us in IT until they arrived and wanted us to install them.... Great. I learned that simply installing the print driver isn't enough. When I went to print a test page, even though the printer was installed successfully in Windows and its status showed up as "Ready", the test page wouldn't print. I wouldn't get any error message, neither on the computer nor on the printer. It wouldn't even print its own network config page from the printer itself. We then found out that the only way to get it to print was to setup an HP Smart account and then register that printer to that account. Absolutely insane and annoying.
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  2.  @flat-earther  lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  3.  @TheodoreChin-ih7xz  We're very slowly moving away from buying printers. Our district has a contract with a managed print company that provides at least 2 Canon copiers at each school. Some schools have as many as 8 copiers spread out around campus. Yet we still have teachers who feel the need to have their own classroom printer so that they can print out assignments or other things at a moment's notice without having to walk to their nearest copier. Right now our IT policy is that printers can only be purchased for specific use cases and the school has to pay for it. There's been a lot of change over the past decade in regards to ordering IT equipment and some people still aren't on board for some reason. In the past, schools usually bought whatever random things they wanted without consulting with IT so that's why we have some schools that have random printers form the past 15 years that they bought that are on the verge of failing. It doesn't help that management isn't on board so its just a huge mess.
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