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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: rcjordan on September 18, 2016, 04:22:21 PM

Title: HP pre-programmed failure date of NON-HP ink cartridges in its printers
Post by: rcjordan on September 18, 2016, 04:22:21 PM
Trending. Site's probably going to collapse when /r/ gets it.

QuoteInvestigation of an online printer ink retailer shows that HP has programmed a date in its printer firmware on which unofficial non-HP cartridges would fail. Thousands of HP printers around the world started to show error messages on the same day, the 13th of September 2016.

http://www.myce.com/news/hp-pre-programmed-failure-date-unofficial-non-hp-ink-cartridges-printers-80457/
Title: Re: HP pre-programmed failure date of NON-HP ink cartridges in its printers
Post by: bill on September 18, 2016, 08:34:23 PM
That's not going to go over well. Saw that on a few sites. I hope HP gets a nice big black eye for this type of sabotage.
Title: Re: HP pre-programmed failure date of NON-HP ink cartridges in its printers
Post by: rcjordan on September 28, 2016, 09:30:39 PM
Started making the news.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/hp-to-issue-optional-firmware-update-allowing-3rd-party-ink/
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