Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly

HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• derpgon@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  laughs in off-brand toner sitting in my Brother

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  • overzeetop@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Laughs in BizHub color laser copier that fell off a truck

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  • DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the way.

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• PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Until the software counter decides that the waste ink pad is full and the thing blows a software fuse.

  Epson’s official solution to a full pad is to throw out your printer and buy a new one - literally a printer with a self destruct timer. Not very “eco”.

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  • sirfancy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cursory research about this seems you can replace it yourself for $10. Are you sure about this?

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    • PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      epson.com/…/epson-ink-pads-reset-utility-faqs

      For “North American users” Epson now offers a tool to increase the self destruct counter one, single, time.

      There are third parties now, that offer a reset of the software destruct counter, for a fee.

      The fact that a printer sold as “Eco” has a software self destruct that the user requires an unlock key to reset - an occurrence frequent enough to make it a profitable business for third parties to sell such keys - should tell you all you need to know about these printers.

      There appear to be higher end models without this self destruct, but most consumer models have this limitation.

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      • sirfancy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks for the info, that’s absurd. I don’t know why more people are talking about this then.

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