A warning: if you’ve already bought an HP printer, never subscribe to the HP ink service. If you do, your printer will only be allowed to use certified HP cartridges, and it could lead to situations where you have ink in your printer but it will not print.
There is a lot of IP that we’ve built in the inks of the printers, in the printers themselves.
I call bullshit. I haven’t delved into specific law, but plenty of companies have been around since, say, the 1860s and are still producing ink today. If you can’t make ink people want to buy, that’s a skill issue.
“We have seen that you can embed viruses into cartridges, through the cartridge go to the printer, from the printer go to the network, so it can create many more problems for customers.”
As the cool kids these days say, “what the fuck is blud waffling about?” If a printer cartridge can contain a virus, I think that’s on you, not on the cartridge. A black cartridge and a color cartridge need only to conform to two unique shapes, and that should be all.
ETA: as the ashamed owner of an HP printer, I’ve learned how to fill my own cartridges, and while the process is messy and should be conducted over a kitchen sink, it is somewhere between a hundred and a thousand times cheaper than buying from HP.
A warning: if you’ve already bought an HP printer, never subscribe to the HP ink service. If you do, your printer will only be allowed to use certified HP cartridges, and it could lead to situations where you have ink in your printer but it will not print.
I call bullshit. I haven’t delved into specific law, but plenty of companies have been around since, say, the 1860s and are still producing ink today. If you can’t make ink people want to buy, that’s a skill issue.
As the cool kids these days say, “what the fuck is blud waffling about?” If a printer cartridge can contain a virus, I think that’s on you, not on the cartridge. A black cartridge and a color cartridge need only to conform to two unique shapes, and that should be all.
ETA: as the ashamed owner of an HP printer, I’ve learned how to fill my own cartridges, and while the process is messy and should be conducted over a kitchen sink, it is somewhere between a hundred and a thousand times cheaper than buying from HP.
ETA2: Don’t buy HP though. Seriously.