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HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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I have always had a conspiracy theory that the ink management requirements are set by national security input. All printers have a yellow dot pattern added to every print to identify the printer by a forensics team. I wonder if this is why the ink landscape is so shifty. They want to make sure those dots get printed. My thought on why you can't print black and white when you are only missing colored ink.
Funny you'd mention that. I removed my color cartridge and haven't seen fit to reattach it. On HP printers, at least, you can override ink checking by long-pressing one of the buttons on it. (I assume people who have purchased a printer that doesn't suck will have a similar option)
The conspiracy theory falls apart with black only printers. 🤷