I wonder if the printer companies are going to start cracking down on
stuff like this. I wonder what the legalities of this is...is it like
pirating software? Refilling a cartridge is one thing, but deliberately
defeating mechanisms might be something else. Remember what happened
with defeating the copy protection on DVDs :) Don't get me wrong, I
don't support the printer companies at all in this, I just don't want
the entreprenuring businesspeople to get screwed in the end.

Josh
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Jinx wrote:
>
> > > The printer has a built in "damaging mechanism" that destroys the
> > > contacts when the cartridge is removed so that it is no longer
> > > electrically useable.
> >
> > Ah, but - if you try a refilled cartridge in the printer it came from it
> > won't work
>
> btw, she did discuss with the customer the setting up of a cartridge
> "dating agency", as she's in a position to be able to co-ordinate a
> refilled cartridge not going back to customer1 who brought it in,
> but instead to customer2, customer3 gets customer2's cartridge
> and so on

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