HP ink
jet cartridges have built-in expiry dates
Printer
giant HP has built in time limits for its inkjet printer cartridges which means
machines may stop working even if the consumable has 75% ink let to go.
A
corporate user who has an HP BusinessJet 2200C, an expensive model with separate
ink catridges and printer heads for black and CYM, said his printer stopped
working earlier this week with the message: "Cyan Ink Cartridge has
expired".
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Epson,
we have a problem
The
Dutch Consumer Association Consumentenbond is telling its 650,000 members not to
buy Epson inkjet cartridge printers because of a "deceptive smart
chip".
The chip doesn't indicate the amount of ink left in the cartridge, the
association claims, but stops after a number of print runs, even when there is
enough ink available for another fifty pages or so.
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Lexmark
unleashes DMCA on toner cartridge rival
Lexmark
has invoked the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act in a legal action
against a firm that makes chips that permit third party toner cartridges to work
in its printers.
The printer company is suing Static Control Components for violation of the
Copyright Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act regarding the Static
Control's Smartek microchips. Normally litigants would use patent laws in such
cases but here we see another example of the surprising applications of the DMCA.
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The
Canon Cartridge Return Program
As part
of its Clean Earth Campaign in the United States, the Canon Cartridge Return
Program has collected tens of millions of cartridges that otherwise would have
been discarded into landfills and has significantly reduced the volume of waste.
Under the program, returned cartridges are put through a recycling and energy
recovery process. This program produces plastics, metals and reconditioned parts
that can be used in the manufacture of cartridges and other products.
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Cheap
Ink Probed
Tests
show third-party ink cartridges for brand-name printers can produce quality
prints, but they'll fade fast.
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