maybe this will stop this big scam.
my all in one printer wont even let me send a fax once one of the cartridges says it is out of ink. wont even let me print in black ink when the cartridge has plenty of black ink if one of the colored cartridges goes out.
Yep. I bought an off brand laser printer once. The toner cartridges had a chip in them, so it would tell you that you are out of toner even before your printouts got light or faded, and there was nothing you could do. You couldn’t even re-use/repurpose the cartridge with new toner because of the chip.
Ink and toner are a big business. Bigger than the printer hardware. They don’t want people circumventing their milk cow
not to mention some wont even let you print if the ink is ‘out of date’
Let me guess, you own a craptastic Epson printer because that is what my Epson printer did before I threw it out.
I had an Epson like that. Wouldn’t print in black if one of the infinitesimal color cartridges was empty, wouldn’t scan, wouldn’t send faxes, I think it would actually receive faxes. As if that weren’t bad enough, once a day or so the printer would spit out a little ink from all the cartridges to “clean them” and “keep them from getting clogged”.
I straight out told Epson on the phone that they were useless oxygen thieves and criminal thugs committing fraud on their victims, er, customers, that they belonged in prison, and they had sold me their last “product”.
All-in-ones blow and Epson blows the mostest.