In rare move from printing industry, HP actually has a decent idea (arstechnica.com)
from Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 15:12
https://lemmy.world/post/20246584

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JackDark@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 15:22 next collapse

It uses AI to rearrange and resize content when you are printing from the internet. The example is pretty compelling, but doesn’t make up for everything else HP does.

Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca on 27 Sep 2024 15:27 next collapse

I must be living in the future…

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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social on 27 Sep 2024 17:00 collapse

The example in the article reduces a recipe print from 47 pages to 1 by using AI to remove all of the filler garbage and leaves just the recipe instructions. Slightly different than just rearranging elements.

robolemmy@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 17:37 collapse

Paprika 3 recipe manager does that too, plus it adds it to a local database, without any AI bullshit or HP account.

Grimy@lemmy.world on 28 Sep 2024 00:28 collapse

Yup, it’s a cool feature and I’ll be sure to get some kind of open source tool that leverages my own computer ressources and isn’t tied to such a terrible printer to do it.

lurch@sh.itjust.works on 27 Sep 2024 15:30 next collapse

Huge article and it’s just “Perfect Output” an AI to adjust printer settings and page setup. Don’t read this waste of time.

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 15:45 next collapse

One could use Perfect Output to quickly fix image sizes and remove ads and white space when printing something off a website, HP says as an example.

So Reader Mode for printing?

That seems like a feature that would be better handled by the browser than the printer—this is the equivalent of implementing reader mode by adding AI to your monitor.

tal@lemmy.today on 27 Sep 2024 16:17 collapse

Plus, is this sending my data to HP to be processed remotely as a cloud service, or is this AI stuff being run locally? I don’t especially want to have the contents of my print jobs being sent to HP.

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 16:21 collapse

I wouldn’t be surprised if their AI rewrites their terms of service every time you try to print it.

callmepk@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 16:03 next collapse

Hi HP, I want my printer boring as it should be

turtletracks@lemmy.zip on 27 Sep 2024 19:51 collapse

Right? And what do you mean, untrustworthy? If anything, HP artificially created that issue lol

realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club on 27 Sep 2024 16:38 next collapse

Dont care. The only HP printers I’ll ever use moving forward are gonna be any I happen to get for free.

GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca on 27 Sep 2024 17:27 collapse

…any I happen to get for free and I have no other working printers. I have a Brother color laser, so they have nothing I want.

realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club on 27 Sep 2024 18:11 collapse

Yep. My parents have a Brother printer that I use, and I work in IT and got a free HP printer that I’m holding onto for when I move out. Otherwise, I’d buy a Brother printer.

GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca on 27 Sep 2024 18:13 collapse

Tough place to be. Really, who’s going to give away a working Brother printer?

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 Sep 2024 18:39 next collapse

When I print something, I certainly don’t want AI messing with it. I often use a printed copy to make sure something will fit before I 3D print it or have a PCB made. I need it to print exactly at 100% scale.

I would love to have the page cleanup feature built into my web browser though. Hardly any sites include a print layout anymore.

realitista@lemm.ee on 27 Sep 2024 19:55 collapse

I would definitely use it for the examples like recipes and spreadsheeets to improve the formatting if it worked as shown.

WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works on 28 Sep 2024 00:47 next collapse

can’t we just print the reader mode page of Firefox?

realitista@lemm.ee on 28 Sep 2024 07:43 collapse

I mean you can but it won’t look like the examples shown. Reader modes tend to focus on the text to the detriment of the pictures and formatting.

EngineerGaming@feddit.nl on 28 Sep 2024 14:51 collapse

Also they don’t include comments, which are a huge part of my reading. I save pages to read on a e-ink tablet for comfort, html where pictures are irrelevant but pdf in case of any graphics.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 28 Sep 2024 15:01 collapse

Wow. Now we use AI to fix formatting issues.

realitista@lemm.ee on 28 Sep 2024 15:05 collapse

If it works, why not?

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 29 Sep 2024 10:20 collapse

Green computing.

realitista@lemm.ee on 29 Sep 2024 14:47 collapse

Fair enough. But I don’t think not using it for this use case will change much.

Wispy2891@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 19:59 next collapse

Or… just copy the text that you want to print in libreoffice and print from there

Moreover, I don’t understand why HP is wasting lots of server processing power for this. If someone prints one page instead of 47, then they can downgrade from the highest plan of their ink subscription with 100 monthly pages to the lowest cheapest plan with only 15 pages. Maybe they plan to include a page with sponsored coupons in the printout?

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 28 Sep 2024 14:58 next collapse

What, “decent”? They’re just jumping on the AI bandwagon.

SomeGuy69@lemmy.world on 29 Sep 2024 10:38 collapse

HP is doing a lot of advertisement lately, the boycott must show first fruits. Fuck HP.