HP is not exactly a stranger when it comes to anti-consumer practices related to its inkjet printers.and it is that for a company that sells printer cartridges that are more expensive than some of the printer models that it sellsit is definitely important to take care of this source of income.
That is why, as we read in Reddita new update has begun to move that disables printers that have non-original cartridgesa move for which HP was already fined in the United States some time agoand that apparently was not chastised as it was too light a penalty.
The detection of these cartridges seems to work for the identification of the cartridge chip, since the error message that is displayed indicates that a chip that does not come from HP is detected, although it is specified that the printer can be used with cartridges that have new or reused HP chips.
This opens the doors to refilling original cartridges, something that cannot be done easily at home either, so the only easy way that HP gives us is to buy new cartridges – or in some cases, new HP printers, thus encouraging the generation of e-waste.
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Jordi Bercial
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