You might think that improving the safety of customers is a noble cause but Hot Hardware points out that customers who refill their cartridges are fine. In a report by Hot Hardware, HP was quoted as saying that the updates were to, “protect innovation and intellectual property, but also to improve the safety of products for customers”. We aren’t saying you should use third party ink cartridges but if you have and there hasn’t been a disaster, where is the harm?Īccording to HP, there is harm, but not necessarily to your printer. For an extra R150 you can have a brand new printer. The trouble with this is that official ink cartridges are usually more expensive than generic counterparts.įor instance, one black ink cartridge for an HP printer can cost R449. If you’ve ever spent any time around a printer you’ll know that the manufacturer urges users to use its official ink cartridges. Rather vanilla sounding news we agree, until you learn that the update started killing third party ink cartridges last week. Back in March HP released a firmware update.
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