Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly

• 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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