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Originally Posted by Ferus
Nothing new there. "Planned obsolescence" is a key function in most printers
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I disagree. Printers are dirt-cheap (less than $100 sometimes). The real money is in the cartridges. I could see HP blocking 3rd party cartridges from working to capture more of the market. But maybe they could have explored ways to manufacture OEM versions to sell to white-label companies and changed their firmware to accept other brands, capturing even more of the market. Who knows.