Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better'

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 20, 2015 @04:33AM from the for-your-convenience-we-have-glued-your-face-to-your-hand dept.

sandbagger writes: The latest attempt to create artificial scarcity comes from Xerox, according to the editors at TechDirt, who cite German sources: "Xerox uses region coding on their toner cartridges AND locks the printer to the first type used. So if you use a North America cartridge you can't use the cheaper Eastern Europe cartridges. The printer's display doesn't show this, nor does the hotline know about it. When c't reached out to Xerox, the marketing drone claimed, this was done to serve the customer better..."

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Region Locking by Elder+Entropist · 2015-08-20 05:21 · Score: 5, Interesting

So if they region lock it so we can't use the (same, but) cheaper cartridges from Eastern Europe and Asia, can we region lock it so they can't use the cheaper workers from Easter Europe and Asia?