HP pre-programmed failure date of NON-HP ink cartridges in its printers

[rcjordan]

Trending. Site's probably going to collapse when /r/ gets it.

Investigation 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/

[bill]

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.

[rcjordan]

Started making the news.

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