Dell Takes the Low Road Regarding Ink Cartridges

Posted by chrisd on Thursday March 27, 2003 @02:28PM from the rev-engineering-to-take-about-five-minutes dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Dell released a line of printers today, manufactured by Lexmark. As covered by by Yahoo they '..contain a chip that disables the cartridge if it is refilled and replaced in a Dell printer..' and 'The cartridges are different sizes than cartridges from other printer vendors, including Lexmark, the spokesperson said. This will limit the amount of knockoff cartridges available, but only until someone figures out how to reverse engineer Dell's cartridges.'" In the interest of full disclosure, note that the poster sells knockoff carts.

1 of 426 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Inkjet printers suck! by Dr.+Bent · 2003-03-27 14:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Biggest scam ever! They get more and more useless every day...."Oh, I printed half a page, time to buy a new $50 ink cartridge".

Printer technology peaked with the laserjet printer and everything since then has been a ugly and annoying attempt by printer manufacturers at a constant revenue stream. Blegh!

Rant Over.