#printerink — Public Fediverse posts
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Tom’s Hardware: Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can’t be properly recycled. “The City Council has voted to create an ordinance that will ban single-use printer cartridges that can’t be refilled or that don’t have a take-back program offered by the vendor. This includes basically any ink or toner module that’s bound to end up […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/02/toms-hardware-los-angeles-aims-to-ban-single-use-printer-cartridges-new-ordinance-will-target-ink-and-toner-that-cant-be-properly-recycled/ -
Ars Technica: Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges. “HP, along with other printer brands, is infamous for issuing firmware updates that brick already-purchased printers that have tried to use third-party ink. In a new form of frustration, HP is now being accused of issuing a firmware update that broke customers’ laser printers—even though the devices […]
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iron gall inkjet printer ink 🤔 is that a thing?
#FountainPens #IronGallInk #ink #InkJet #PrinterInk #Printer -
If a printer ink cartridge can infect the computer attached to the printer with malware, you have built your printer wrong.
https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/hp-ceo-justifies-blocking-third-party-ink-cartridges-by-claiming-they-can-inject-malware
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@nixCraft
Idea: regulate such that printers and printer inks can not be manufactured or sold by companies within the same corporate/conglomerate/ownership structure.
Give them the option of instead following an open source standard for the cartridges and ban any and all forms of the machines or software even checking the manufacturer of the cartridges. Then they can do both.Can I get the Pirate Party on board with this?
#PirateParty #PiratPartiet #Printers #HP #EU #PrinterInk