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Lexmark Wins Injunction in Toner Cartridge Suit
goingincirclez writes "Cnet reports that Lexmark has won an injunction against Static Control Components, Inc., which effectively prohibits the manufacture of recycled / third party toner cartidges. Slashdot covered the initial filing of the suit. SCC also has a rebuttal site that definitely warrants checking out. I would like to think that other printer manufacturers won't follow suit, but I'm not that naive. Better start your trust fund for ink cartridges."
Start using Laser Printers.. o wait...
Newsfollow.com
Just print everything at work.
Life in Orange County
Of the people, by the people, for the people?
Oh...fuck the people. They left that one off.
Because my monitor is too heavy to bring on the train. And there's no plugs.
I guess I could tape a printout to the monitor, and put the monitor on a cart of some kind... Oh wait, we don't want to print.
I guess I could read the pdf and commit it to memory. D'oh, but another person can't read my mind (at least since I lined my toque with tinfoil).
Well, I'm out of ideas...
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
The lowest quality brand of printer on the market has decided that people can't copy their cartridges!
What's next?
Will it be illegal to make generic versions of RC Cola?
Illegal to make work-alikes to "No-Ad" sunblock?
No one will be able to make anything that looks like a Ford Pinto? Or one of these cars?
What is this world coming to!
Well, at least I can still buy Tandy 5000 compatible computers.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
(Or maybe I'm getting this backwards. Fine cognac might be expensive because it's made from inkjet ink... I don't remember; I'll have to look it up.)
Some time ago, friends of mine here (in AK) began doing just that. They did the math, discovered it was cheaper to buy a new printer from [major membership-type warehouse outlet] each time a cartridge ran out. Perfectly good printers became targets for a wide variety of projectile weapons.
I'm telling you man, it's the printer of the future! You don't have to replace ink! It tells you when your printing has start, and finished through an excellent system of horrible screeching! You can buy a box of paper and never have to reload a tray! Plus, you get alot of extra strips of paper with the perforated tracks, which you can use to make nests for some of the local fauna!
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
When does scc-inc.com get redirected to the DOJ website?
Terrycloth Lobster
Did anyone else automatically get a mental picture of Samir from Office Space when they read that?
"Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam! I swear to God, one of these days, I, I, I kick this piece of SHIT out the window!"
hmm - everyone has such insightful things to say. Let me print this thread out to bring on my morning commute.
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I hacked open my Lexmark cartridge (using a warm blade) and poured some toner down it. You can buy toner kits with instructions for the Lexmark printers. Its 14.95 for 4000 pages as opposed to 50 for 2000 pages if you buy a new cartridge every time you run out of toner. You can refill up to two times, thus amortizing the cost of the cartridge and sticking it to lexmark.
This helps offset the ridiculous prices that lexmark charges for their toners. For example their e210 printer comes with a toner cartridge that lasts 1000 pages and subsequent ones are 2000 pages and 50 dollars each. Im still on my original cartridge and have refilled once. Itll be a year before I refill again, then another before I have to buy a cartridge. Afaik, some printers similar to the e210 (a samsung) actually have a plug that you can remove to refill cartridge. No hacking required.