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
Save Money On Your Home Office
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
An EPSON study found many printers will tell you it’s time to replace the ink cartridge before it’s actually empty.