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HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges - ""Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription."" (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What should a printer do: take ink from some means -> print

What shouldnt a printer do: Take ink from cartridge -> read its chip to ensure authenticity -> count cycles of usage to not allow further than the chip allows -> somehow have a buffer overflow due to this implementation

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Currently I can scan documents but not print due to a non existent and non resettable “paper jam”. If only the printer were smart enough to just print it would be useable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I have not bought a inkjet printer since forever because they've always been crap, and I have given up on laser printers for a long time too now... Nowadays I just don't think having a personal printer is worth the trouble.

But one of the factors in making this decision was that my last laser printer decided my toner needed to be replaced for absolutely no reason. I am not printing a lot, and it was nowhere near empty.

Turns out there is a built-in hardware check inside the toner which is purely time-based, and after a while it just decides the toner must be checked by support or replaced. I checked on the internet, there is a resistor you can change in the toner to reset the counter and make it "new" again.

I couldn't be bothered though. It was an old model, I was moving out, I knew a friend who was ready to mess with it so I gave it away, and I never bought another one.