When you buy a toaster, you do so with the assumption that the toaster company won’t go in a few years from now and make it so your favorite brand of bread made by a different company is incompatible with the toaster you’ve purchased. In a letter to printer-maker HP, the Electronic Frontier Foundation laid out exactly how terrible an idea it was for the company to ban third-party ink cartridges as part of a software update. [More]
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EFF: HP Should Reverse Software Update, Actually Tell Customers About Planned Limitations
By 9.28.16
Save Money On Your Home Office
By 12.3.09
Sure, when you’re at the office you think nothing of printing out 50-page forwards or swiping entire cases of staples and pens, but if you work at home it’s time to get conservative. [More]
Printers Prompt For Ink Replacement Before Ink Is Out
By 7.26.07
An EPSON study found many printers will tell you it’s time to replace the ink cartridge before it’s actually empty.
