Large numbers of HP printer owners found their printers stopped recognising unofficial printer ink cartridges on 13 September. Dutch printer ink vendor 123inkt said it had received more than 1,000 complaints in one day. HP said that during its last firmware update, settings had been changed so HP printers would communicate with only HP-chipped cartridges.
123inkt said it did not believe that a firmware update had been issued since March 2016, suggesting the change had been pre-programmed to roll out this month. HP said such updates were rolled out "periodically" but did not comment on the timing of the last instalment. "The purpose of this update is to protect HP's innovations and intellectual property," it said in a statement.
Right, sure, that's what it's about, protecting intellectual property. Not selling people ink cartridges that are many times more expensive than they should be. Bastards.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37408173
I'm not using a printer that often, but I'll be sure to avoid HP mfers. Most of them suck badly, though.
ReplyDeleteI'm using Brother now. I've had 3 different HP ink jet printers and one HP Laser jet. I've had problems with getting the drivers installed on every HP printer. But with windows 10, they installed fine over my LAN. But yeah... the ink for the inkjet printers is too expensive. And worse, the cheapo brand colors are different than HP's.
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