News HP CEO justifies blocking third-party ink cartridges by claiming they can inject malware

[stonecarver]

But for the typical person, color laser is just fine.

Gotta be honest black and white laser and I'm a happy camper. I bought generic x3 pack of ink carts in 2018 and still on the first one I put in back than. Sometimes I print up a vintage service manual and over the years that adds up the a couple thousand pages.

I will never buy an HP ink jet ever again I remember when that death by date ink jet stuff started and honestly forgot about it till this thread. Sad to see it still lives.

 

[hotaru251]

yes...but so can connecting anything to you PC/network.

should we make it so printers cant connect to external devices for fear of soemthing less than 1% of users would experience?

 

[Co BIY]

Just don't purchase HP printers and problem solved. There are many other printer manufacturers who make good quality printers.

Who should I go with ?

Inclined toward a color laser and a built in scanner would be helpful.

I have purchased my last HP cartridge.

 

[USAFRet]

Who should I go with ?

Inclined toward a color laser and a built in scanner would be helpful.

I have purchased my last HP cartridge.

I have a brother MFC-L3770CDW. Flawless for 3(?) years. Good print quality.

 

[vanadiel007]

Who should I go with ?

Inclined toward a color laser and a built in scanner would be helpful.

I have purchased my last HP cartridge.

I use a Brother and an Epson. Both work well and print out everything I need it for.

 

[stonecarver]

I just had a thought. kind of a pain in the b*** but I used to change the date back on a PC where back in XP days to get service pac 1 to install. All it was, the computer had date wise aged past some cutoff that the service pac needed to move forward.

Could some one with the death by date HP ink disconnect from internet. Change the date back where the ink thinks it's in the proper time to still be valid ? Or does the ink have a independent self destruct timer kind of thing. Just thinking out loud.

 

[Eximo]

Pretty sure they baked all that into the chip on the ink cartridge so you can't do stuff like that.