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HP Ink should cough up $1.5m for bricking printers using unofficial cartridges – lawsuit

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Lexmark next

"the other printer manufacturers who make it almost impossible to print if you use anything other than one of their overpriced rip off cartridges"

The problem at the low end is that they've all gone for the Gillette model - the handle(printer) is free, but the blades(consumables) are expensive.

The difference being that when it comes to printers, most of the complicated bits are in the handle.

If you can stomach those $40 printers being $90, then the ink prices might come down from $70 a set to $35 (This applies to lasers too - and makers are pulling similar stunts when they detect remanufactured/compatible toner packs onboard)

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