On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 10:36, Jinx wrote:
> > Colin, Joe,
> > Here there are many small firms which are living just refilling
> > used cardriges. However, HP color cargrige ( like 94A ) can
> > be refilled only onece, maybe twice times. A HP printer it
> > costs about 50$ and a HP color cardrige about 25$. Seems
> > for me normal to refill it.
>
> For people not aware of the problem, this is what happens. If
> you have a smart cartridge refilled, it may not work when you
> put it back in the printer you took it from. However, it does work
> in another printer. My refiller (Cartridge World) got around this
> by swapping customers' refilled cartridges so that no one got
> the same one back. It works until you run out of swaps, but having
> several outlets in town means they trade them with other CW
> branches. AFAIK they are still doing this quite successfully, but
> sooner or later the bubble will burst and someone will have to start
> buying new cartridges unless the anti-refill mechanism is defeated

The EU is going after those manufacturers...


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