HP Printers go 'Plus' starting with new $179 LaserJet M200 series

The corporate are going to be pushing its cloud-connected Plus versions that provide extra-friendly features and costs , and expands its Instant Ink subscription to laser toner.

HP's going all bent attract the large work-from-home and remote learning crowds with its latest printer launch, HP Plus. As against the retronymmed "HP Standard," which is what you'd call today's printers, Plus adds a bunch of cloud-related services and one-shot benefits at a less expensive price in exchange for requiring an online connection for the printer, an HP account and restricting yourself to HP's inks and toners instead of choosing cheap third-party options. Plus isn't an extra-cost option -- you do not need to subscribe the company's Instant Ink auto refill delivery service -- and is launching in conjunction with the new HP LaserJet M200 series printers (starting at $179) also as a part of the OfficeJet Pro 8000 and 9000 series. Instant Ink for toner starts at $2 per month.

HP Plus versions of printers accompany an additional six months of Instant Ink for free of charge and a bump to a two-year warranty from the standard one year. Features beyond what's available with HP Standard include:

• Cloud resiliency: autodetection and correction of Wi-Fi connection hiccups
• Smart Security: monitors printer for and prevention of malware attacks
• Native printing from mobile devices (as against having to launch an app)
• Private pickup: the power to time employment to print while you're standing there waiting to select it up.
• Smart dashboard: Remote printer and user management
• Forest First: HP expands its reforestation investment to be supported all pages printed with a Plus printer from HP paper-only-based investment.

Tying the utilization of its consumables to Plus -- notably toner for laser printers -- allows HP to tackle one among its biggest headaches: the extensive use of cheap, remanufactured toner cartridges rather than HP's own together with your explicit agreement to permit it to lock you out of using them and the means to bypass your circumventions. Consumables are an enormous profit center for printer companies and toner may be a bigger chunk of the resales than inkjet cartridges because it is a lot simpler to implement. 

And you'll tell how important it's to HP that you simply buy the Plus version: The new LaserJet 200 series' debut product, the LaserJet MFP M234dwe, runs $179 for the HP Plus model, while the standard model costs more at $229. The hardware specs include 600 dpi, up to 30 pages per minute print speed, 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi channels plus Bluetooth, a 150-sheet input tray, up to legal-size paper and automatic duplexing.

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