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HP Must Defend Half-Empty "Economy" Ink Cartridges
An Anonymous Coward excerpts this short Detroit News story, which begins "PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co. must defend the sale of half-full ink cartridges with its printers after a Minnesota appellate court reinstated a lawsuit against the world's largest maker of printers.
Three Minnesota women claim that the company doesn't reveal that the 'economy cartridges' installed on new printers are only half full of ink." The cost of refills is why I've given up on inkjet printers entirely (for now) -- guess which division of HP made more money than the other four combined?
Cost of new black ink cartridge for my printer: $40
Cost of laser printer with toner on eBay: $50
Maybe they should just sell disposable printers instead.
--Kevin
guess which division of HP made more money than the other four combined?
Compaq?
See, some people only see the negative. I see the ink cartritge as half full.
50rry, l4z0r is teh suxest!
HP Must Defend Half-Empty "Economy" Ink Cartidges
Apparently. These "cartidges" also seem to have half as many R's.
"Twice half-assed makes an ass whole." --Solomon K. Chang
Come on, be fair. Deceptive packaging is just that - packaging designed to give a false impression. People who bought based on this false impression have been defrauded. The cartridges are not "economy", as they are falsely represented.
Companies have been doing this with laser printers too - the first toner cartridge is less than half full, always.
Mind you, this reminds me of the ongoing fight I'm having with a coffee maker who sold me 2 12-cup coffee makers that make only 6 8-ounce cups. Nothing in the fine print, nothing in the packaging, nothing in the manual.
We'll see who blinks first - or whether I'm going to have to take them to small claims court.
---- El diablo esta en mis pantalones! Mire, mire!
There's no law that says "HP will include cartridges with each and every new inkjet printer they sell". I see no rip off here other than the three women and their lawyers.
I will wager a large sum that these broads also think their husband's paychecks belong to them for life, married or not.
I will wager the same sum that their lawyers will agree with them on that point too.
The last 3 cars I've bought were all filled with gas when I bought them...
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You must have haggled quite a bit to piss them off so much that they wouldn't even fill your gas tank
"Just Smile and Nod." --Huck
This study is a pretty amusing look into exactly how much each page of inkjet-ed printing costs you.
The joys and savings of cost of a dot-matrix. Not to mention the fact that there are pages out there designed specifically to create music while you print (for the speakerless/soundcardless of us out there).
Lemure, wtf! Don't you mean Lemur?
Get a laser printer and a black and white cat. Of course, you may end up with Pepe LePew trying to romance it, but think of the money you'll save on ink refills.
Pictures of your cats?! Freak.
I had just stocked up on about 30 carts for my epson 740 that I bought from a friend (along with a revision a imac) for a hundred bucks. The day the package arrived from "ink cars are us", I had taken the printer down from the shelf and while answering the phone in the next room, my dog pissed on the printer. I took it as a sign from God. I threw out the printer, Gave the carts to the x wife (let her have the karma) and bought an Ethernet laser the next day.
oops, i meant pictures of my pussy.
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My panasonic dot matrix has never quit.
/dev/hda >> /dev/lp0
I just shove in a $2 cartride, and type:
cat
It is as simple as that.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Remove the cheap solvent, and, by weight, inkjet ink is more expensive than gold.
Yeah. Even if you printed counterfeit money with an inkjet, you *still* couldn't afford its cartridges!