News HP tries resuscitating plummeting printer sales with AI-enhanced printing features — Perfect Output helps trim web pages and combines data

[Admin]

HP introduces some AI enhancements to its printers.

HP tries resuscitating plummeting printer sales with AI-enhanced printing features — Perfect Output helps trim web pages and combines data : Read more

 

[bit_user]

Didn't HP sell off its printer business and now just rebadges someone else's?

For me, remote working probably did the most to reduce my printer usage, on the job. On rare occasions, I do still print things at the office. At home, I have a monochrome Samsung laser printer I bought like a dozen years ago, but I barely use it once per year. Samsung no longer makes laser printers, either.

I think it's kinda funny how Xerox saw the era of the "paperless office" coming like 45 or 50 years ago. That's why they setup Xerox PARC, which is where a lot of the innovations happened that Apple (and others) drew from.

 

[Neilbob]

Aaaauuuurgh! I can't stand this absurdity!

Why are they so intent on obfuscating the process of PRINTING A DOCUMENT?! All this stuff used to be perfectly fine and achievable without the 'assistance' of 'AI' and other dong-fartery. Yes, I just made that up.

I don't know if it's possible to frown so much your face turns inside-out, but if it is I very nearly managed it.

 

[bigdragon]

There's multiple reasons HP's printer sales are plummeting, and AI is not going to fix this. HP should take that AI money and invest it into making higher quality printers that don't demand ink subscriptions or appear to intentionally self-destruct after 2 years. HP can't control what's going on with remote work and the expansion of electronic signatures, but they can control their faltering product quality.

 

[newtechldtech]

Didn't HP sell off its printer business and now just rebadges someone else's?

For me, remote working probably did the most to reduce my printer usage, on the job. On rare occasions, I do still print things at the office. At home, I have a monochrome Samsung laser printer I bought like a dozen years ago, but I barely use it once per year. Samsung no longer makes laser printers, either.

I think it's kinda funny how Xerox saw the era of the "paperless office" coming like 45 or 50 years ago. That's why they setup Xerox PARC, which is where a lot of the innovations happened that Apple (and others) drew from.

The funny thing is that the oldest tech dot matrix printers are still being used everywhere for hardcopy invoices and receipts ..

 

[husker]

Is this really going to run on one of the trained AI models? Or are they just going to use some formatting software that runs in the cloud somewhere, and then throwing the AI term out there as a marketing gimmick?

 

[thisisaname]

Aaaauuuurgh! I can't stand this absurdity!

Why are they so intent on obfuscating the process of PRINTING A DOCUMENT?! All this stuff used to be perfectly fine and achievable without the 'assistance' of 'AI' and other dong-fartery. Yes, I just made that up.

I don't know if it's possible to frown so much your face turns inside-out, but if it is I very nearly managed it.

Yes but how else are they going to sell their brand of snake oil if they do not brand it with AI enhancement.

 

[logainofhades]

HP shot themselves in the foot with the subscription junk.

 

[thestryker]

There's multiple reasons HP's printer sales are plummeting, and AI is not going to fix this. HP should take that AI money and invest it into making higher quality printers that don't demand ink subscriptions or appear to intentionally self-destruct after 2 years. HP can't control what's going on with remote work and the expansion of electronic signatures, but they can control their faltering product quality.

I've found this shift to be highly ironic as their products being reliable and relatively simple is what fueled their rise to the top in the first place. I doubt it'll be possible to turn back the clock period, but you're absolutely right if they focused on the engineering side they might be able to stabilize.

 

[Co BIY]

Aaaauuuurgh! I can't stand this absurdity!

Why are they so intent on obfuscating the process of PRINTING A DOCUMENT?! All this stuff used to be perfectly fine and achievable without the 'assistance' of 'AI' and other dong-fartery. Yes, I just made that up.

I don't know if it's possible to frown so much your face turns inside-out, but if it is I very nearly managed it.

HP will undoubtedly train their AI with the collected works of the world's low-rent used car salesmen, gilded-age robber barons, the worst stereotypes of middle-eastern traders (of all types), gormless eurocrats, transnational con-men, and a collection of the least popular Marvel and Bond villains. [Please sound out with additional sources of excellent training material.]

With the express goal of extracting the most lucre from the marks for the least amount of productive output.

 

[jackt]

goodbye privacy on printers too now...

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

The spreadsheet feature is something you can already do in Excel, just define a print range and scale to fit on one page in the print dialog, takes about 30 seconds, or about a minute if you are a perfectionist for resizing rows and columns.

As for the Print AI for web pages, there's a feature on Chromium based browsers, and probably Firefox too, called "Reader Mode", hotkey F9 in Edge, does wonders in removing whitespace and ads for reading, and printing, for websites which lack a printable layout toggle.

 

[hotaru251]

HP printers can die out for all i care. Their middle finger to customers of their stuff is S tier & dont deserve any pity or sympathy

 

[pjmelect]

Friends do not let friends buy HP printers, the word is out and I am surprised that they manage to sell any printers at all. The printers themselves are functionally OK but the cost of ink and the shenanigans that HP has got up to with the ink, make buying a HP printer very unattractive. Adding AI will not change things at all unless the HP management use it themselves.