HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Working in Its Printers

Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by Animats on Sunday September 18, 2016 @02:27AM (#12524201)

There's the Epson Eco-Tank series. Ink is in four bottles at the side of the machine, good for about 4000-6000 pages. Refill with Epson ink bottles or (a bit more messily) from bulk ink. The printer costs about $279.

You do have to clean the print heads occasionally. That's the price of long life print heads.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by daurnimator on Sunday September 18, 2016 @03:06AM (#12524280)

You can also buy mods for printers (I have a http://www.rihac.com.au/ ) to give them proper ink reservoirs.

When I got mine done (a canon) they requested my old empty cartridges, as they just grab the chip out of them and trick it into thinking its always full.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by kalleboo on Sunday September 18, 2016 @04:41AM (#12524455)

Some brands have a lifetime counter in the chip and will shut off after a certain X pages no matter how much ink is actually left.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by nitrogen on Sunday September 18, 2016 @10:47AM (#12525507)

Haven't some manufacturers of refilled cartridges hacked the firmware for some printers to prevent this, triggering the wrath of the DMCA?

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by sylv3r on Sunday September 18, 2016 @05:16AM (#12524540)

Even brother is joining in the refillable tank brigade. No need to get a cartridge based printer in 2016 :)

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by m3adow on Sunday September 18, 2016 @03:02AM (#12524271)

How is the Linux support for Epson printers? The big thing for HP is their good support for Linux.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by Nullabillity on Sunday September 18, 2016 @03:21AM (#12524302)

"Good" Linux support means being able to just download a PPD and shove it into CUPS. AFAIK HP is the only one that requires their own crappy GUI on top.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by lvillani on Sunday September 18, 2016 @03:47AM (#12524353)

Personally, I never ever had to use hplip's GUI tool, except for configuring wireless printing. After doing so, I could uninstall it and use bog-standard CUPS.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by tome on Sunday September 18, 2016 @03:24AM (#12524310)

I've had a couple of HP printers on Linux and they didn't require a GUI.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by gmazza on Sunday September 18, 2016 @11:32AM (#12525688)

The only time I had to use (admittedly annoying) HP GUI installer is for scanner part of HP CM1015 MFP. Printer part of the same MFP worked fine with just normal CUPS.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by babuskov on Sunday September 18, 2016 @03:55AM (#12524362)

At my previous job we installed dozens of different HP printers on Linux. We never needed to launch a GUI.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by zanny on Sunday September 18, 2016 @10:14AM (#12525378)

Just check on https://www.openprinting.org/printers to make sure whatever you want to get is supported.

Generally, I have less problems with printers like the XP-320 than HP printers because they are just download the PPD -> good to go. No fucking with HPLIP or an entire software stack around it.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by emp_zealoth on Sunday September 18, 2016 @06:04AM (#12524680)

How is the support good? I've bought a pro laserjet and the wireless wont work (bug is years old), manual duplex won't work, the print jobs like to go disappear into some limbo every now and then...

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by jayeshbadwaik on Sunday September 18, 2016 @06:53AM (#12524798)

Did we now say perfect somewhere?

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by arnoooooo on Sunday September 18, 2016 @02:08PM (#12526341)

The Laserjet I have is a real pain to get working under Linux. It also looses its firmware every time it is unplugged.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by rihac on Sunday September 18, 2016 @08:44PM (#12528042)

Already got an epson printer thats working well? you can buy an Inklink that fits to it much like the ecotank - much cheaper and saves you $1000's www.rihac.com.au

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by bobajeff on Sunday September 18, 2016 @09:36AM (#12525227)

The only problem of epson is it sounds like (from the reviews) that they have bad Wireless support which is kind of a must for some people like me who use their phone to print.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by Devid2014 on Sunday September 18, 2016 @10:56AM (#12525546)

Strange I have no problems with Wireless at all using ET-2550.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by SixSigma on Sunday September 18, 2016 @12:54PM (#12526005)

mine works fine from my phone & pc via wireless

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