oh joy, oh bliss. class action lawsuit against hp!!! yes!!

[mopinko]

just got an email about this-i am not only a member of this class, i have had 3!! of the printers in the suit. not only that, i recently resisted the temptation to dispose of the bajillion empties that i keep hoping to recycle profitably.

it is about killing cartridges that still have toner in them. it's not the settlement so much as how damned happy i am that they are having to pay out on this shit.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[astral]

1. I am not familiar with this.

I have a color printer at work that I KNOW disables cartridges long before they are empty. You can shake them back and forth and feel the big pile of powder toner in there. I told the sellor guy who shook it and said, in an expert-sounding voice, that this printer toner is definitely empty.

and yes I should search out the info on this but I really don't care to put the time into it right now. My employer is happy to dish out the toner money. I may do it a little later tho ---

[mopinko]

3. you can get a replacement chip, although they make it hard,

that will reset the counter. they only cost a couple buck, easy to install, but i think hp gets out there and leans on the makers, because they are hard to find, and sometimes do not work.

that run past empty is in the config, but they make you did. iirc, it is in the set up accessed from the front panel, as opposed to the utility interface.

[rurallib]

2. We acquired a big old HP printer that appears to have this problem.

[applegrove]

4. I bought a printer from them a few years ago. I hardly use it at all. Maybe one document a month.

It started notifying me to change my laser printer cartridge after a year and is still notifying me to change it. There is no way it is low.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Which printers? I've had a number of HP ones. All excellent,

but all but one really burned through the ink.

[whistler162]

6. It is a 200 billion dollar settlement.....

where do you want your coupon for $5 off your next $100 purchase sent?

[Swede]

7. Who could have so much against a delicious steak sauce?