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Lexmark Wins Injunction in Toner Cartridge Suit

Posted by michael on from the toner-cartridge-spam-suddenly-more-useful dept.

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."

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  1. Better yet.... by SpaceCadetTrav · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just print everything at work.

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  2. Re:Printing is sooooo last centery. by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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    Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
  3. Re:This is going to get pathetic by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    There's a reason those cartridges cost so much. Quality ink is always made from the finest rare Cognac. Since Cognac can cost almost $1000 for a 1 liter bottle, and an inkjet cartridge contains about an ounce of ink, you're actually getting about $30 of cognac, and there's very little markup involved.

    (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.)

  4. Re:Not sure this is the wrong decision by Alyeska · · Score: 5, Funny
    I may as well have thrown the printer away and bought a new one every time at those prices.

    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.