^^^ There's actually some merit to this case from what I've been reading. While this may not affect the average consumer some corporations are losing a ton of money on printing supplies. They do this to prevent consumers from refilling the cartridges but as most protection schemes it usually ends up hurting the honest consumers.
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Yes they have date stamps on the cartridges. Where I work they have several HP 2000's that are affected by the expire date ink problem. I can't locate the info right now but we have it documented in our internal knowledge base. The expiry times are something like: 30 months after first install or 2 years after printed date on cartridge, whichever comes first. I can vouch for the validity of the claim that the friggin printer will just plain stop printing when ink expires. You can run the printer's self diagnostics and it will show the ink levels to be adequate and will print just fine. But go to send a print job to that printer, acts like it isn't turned on.
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