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Florida man might just stick it to HP for injecting sneaky DRM update into his printers that rejected non-HP ink

gskr

Yes - very simple. Dont buy HP (or any of the other manufacturers that DRM the print cartridges)

The headline price might be cheaper, but the long term price most certainly is not!

I have a cheap compact Dell colour laser printer (C1760nw) that has been running fine for the last 4 years. A full set of compatible toners is about £20.

In the 4 years I've had to replace the colour toner cartridges once, and the black ones twice. Black cartridges do ~2000 pages (and colour ~1400)

Unfortunately Dell no longer make printers. However there are other manufacturers that also don't pull this crap. Brother is probably the top current recommendation!

Never going back to an inkjet (DRM or not) - I really dont miss ceased print heads endless cleaning, and short lasting cartridges. If I need a photo quality print I'll just order an online print, but for everything else the laser is more than up to the task.

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