Originally Posted by Deschodt
My recent experience with inkjet really brought back to mind a youtube video identifying printer companies as mafia operations. They keep getting sued, lose, and continue anyway.. Printers are sold at a loss (illegal) and $$ is made on ink. And they keep trying to prevent ink refillers from taking their (your) money.
You get a new printer, the cartridges are 25% full barely... But what really annoys me is now they add chips to the cartridges so that you are forced to buy their stuff at full cost. Or invest into some tech to break the code of the chips, dude, I just wanna print a few pics for the family, not hack....a printer cartridge !
Lately I tried to print a photo on my week old printer, and was denied because of low black ink. Ironically the printer has 2 black cartridges, one for printing letters, one for photos on glossier paper, I had enough of that second one.... but it still refused to move forward until I replaced ALL the low cartridges, whether they were gonna get used or not.. $%$#%
I was under the impression I owned that printer, but no. It can deny me printing if *one* cartridge is low, never mind if my printer must be used to print a bomb disarming code in whatever shade of purple rainbow... if one of my colors is low, my choices are "replace cartridge" or "cancel print", both translating into go F$%% yourself.
I may be a curmudgeon but life was better in the 90s, this is high grade bull$hit.
PS: on the same topic, no I do not want your $%$#% subscription to Adobe's entire software toolbox, I want photoshop elements, on my PC, hard copy, mine forever - don't care about patches. Same with quicken... I bought the flipping thing, and now that I refuse to pay a sub the following year, I have *Ads* on MY software... Yup, I must be getting old, get off my lawn (er, PC).
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