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Getting Around Printer-Manufacturer Abuse
An anonymous reader writes "Here's a guy that demonstrates how printer companies abuse their clients. He found that Lexmark cartridges are a perfect replacement for Xerox ones, with only minor modifications to the printer.
It's well illustrated with may photographs."
May Allah strip away your decadence!
so is this good or is this whack?
one time i was trying to court an elephant, i said hey good lookin, want a peanut? at first the elephant was a little shy, but after a couple baths witht he hose she loosened up a little bit. so one day i am washing her with a sponge and i look underneath to wash the private parts, and i think to myself, should i do it? should i go for second or even third base. so i crawl under her and plop she sits right on my face! this is not what i had in mind at all! moral of the story: do not trust elephants
shout out to jase yallz!
greatest empire EVAR
but I can tell you that despite the bad practices of printer manufacturers, using third party stuff could void your warranty. That's flat out untrue, despite printer manufacturers' attempts to the contrary. The only situation under which they are not required to support you under warranty is when the fault is actually IN the third party component. Of course, this means that whenever a repair technician comes out, they will invariably diagnose the fault to be the cause of the third-party component, as you discovered, even when it's something else entirely. Of course the ink is patented; but it's still just basic ink, and any reputable supplier will make stuff as good as, or better, than the original manufacturer. My personal advice is to replace any third party toner with some near-empty-but-some-left cartridges before they come to visit. You'll find the number of times your tech blames the problem on your cartridges way down. Failing that, when you suspect the problem is nothing to do with the toner, (i.e. it's anything other than a splotchy print issue) write to to their legal department pointing out that you feel they have invalidated your warranty illegally. Threaten to take it up with trading standards or whoever else is responsible for business standards in your neck of the woods. Kick up a fuss, and there's a fair chance they'll fold. If they don't, then it's probably not worth the legal costs to chase it. Just let that inform your business decisions in future, and let the orginial company know that's why you're no longer purchasing from them.
Remember kids, it's all fun and games until someone commits wholesale galactic genocide.
..Operating systems.
There's this one buy this Scandinavian guy....
It's just as good as Windows, but with less blue screens and price tags....
fuck you all.! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow, a black plastic box filled with ink, can be made to replace another black box plastic box filled with innk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its a conspracy!!111111111111111111
lets all use !!!!!!!!!
exclamatiuonm""""!!!!!!!!!
poinmts!!!
fucking wannabe nerds. youre all too fucking stupid whores to be nerds
I recently bought a 12 year old HP Laserjet 4+. It's reliable, sharp and reasonably fast (they don't make em like they used to). I recently ran out of toner, and purchased a refilled one. What can I do with my empty one - is there somewhere I can send it to be refilled? (I'm in UK if that makes any difference).
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