Here's why I calls 'em stinkjets.

[Lumos]

Or...Why laser printers are a little better IMO.

But of course the psychopathic 'innovators' mess with those too...even so, laser printers can still be less costly overall and the article quoted below explains what I mean by this.

Quote:Epson boobytraps its printers

"Innovation" has become a curseword, thanks to…innovation.
Some of the world's most imaginative, best-funded sociopaths have spent decades innovating ways to love you over.
While the whole tech sector likes to get in on this game, no one "innovates" like inkjet printer companies.

Printer companies are true fuckery pioneers: the tactical innovations they've developed in the war on their customers would make Otto von Bismarck blush.

Selling printers with half-empty ink-cartridges:
https://www.thestar.com/business/persona...f_ink.html

Requiring useless, mandatory "calibration tests" that use up all your ink:
https://www.consumerreports.org/printers...inter-ink/

Or just having printers reject partially full cartridges as empty.

When you're at war with your customers, you have to anticipate that your rivals will join your customers' side – not because other businesses are paragons of consumer protection, but because it's profitable.
So printer companies tried to use copyright to block ink refillers:
https://www.eff.org/cases/lexmark-v-stat...se-archive

Then patent law:
https://www.eff.org/cases/impression-pro...tional-inc

When that got stale, they figured out how to put DRM in paper, too:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/wo...-paper-now

If we could harness the creative energy put into turning printer users into ink-stained wretches, we could end the world's reliance on Russian gas in an instant:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/in...ur-printer

Here's a good one!
Epson will brick your printer after you've run a certain number of pages, "for your own good."
https://twitter.com/marktavern/status/15...2700122112

How does that work? Well, Epson says that it designs its printers with little internal sponges that soak up excess ink and when they become saturated, that ink might run out of the bottom of your printer and stain your furniture.
https://epson.com/Support/wa00369

If this sounds like bullshit to you, that's because it IS bullshit, as are the claims that excess ink could get into the printer's electronic circuits and start a fire:
https://fighttorepair.collecting email address is NOT allowed - Omni Potens/p/citing-danger-of-ink-spills-epson

If your printer's sponges get too full of excess ink and you're worried about it, you can easily and cheaply install new sponges:
https://youtu.be/EocI_8awj38?t=112

But that would deny Epson a new printer sale, and divert your perfectly good printer from joining the mountains of e-waste that are poisoning the planet, and we couldn't have that.
https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/26/nixing-the-fix/#r2r

So they've rigged their printers' software so that even if you replace the sponges, the printer can still refuse to print.
Replacing or resetting this software requires that you bypass the DRM designed to prevent this, and providing a DRM-defeat tool is a felony punishable by a 5-year sentence and a $500k fine under Section 1201 of the DMCA.

But maybe this is a violation of consumer protection laws.
Aaron Perzanowski thinks so, and he's a law professor.
If the FTC were to go after Epson on this, they would be genuine American heroes, celebrated as true guardians of the public interest.

Previously, the FTC resolved this kind of self-bricking fraud by ordering companies to disclose the practice at the time of purchase.
This is not good enough.
https://www.perzanow.ski/blog/2016/7/14/...estigation

A real remedy – one that would prevent this conduct in future – would be a ban on self-bricking devices altogether, along with immunity from civil and criminal liability for companies and individuals who design defeat devices to un-brick illegally bricked gadgets, under patent, copyright, contract, and all other legal theories.

Source:

Code:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/07/inky-wretches/#epson-salty

I used to do printer cartridge refills too - until the laser toners got too krappy and fussy as well as the stinkjet ones getting 'chipped'.

Now I have leftover gallons of stinkjet ink that is ONLY useful for refilling my fountain pens !!
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[osmanal2]

Thanks for posting these useful references!

Was shock about the half quantity of catridges and also always thought waste of ink for testing the printing on paper ---> such a waste of monies, time and effort to do it. It should be applied to "Hit and Run" to print straight my documents!

Thanks again for this great post, reputation given too, stay safe!

[mthomas]

Good info......and it's not just with printers:

- Check out the total life-threatening BS drugs and "vaccines" the Big Pharma companies have been pushing on the public for decades now.
- John Deere farming equipment - they make it illegal for farmers to fix their own tractor's, combine's, etc., on their own.
- Cell phones - companies only issue security upgrades for 4 years, making them obsolete.
- Software which is sold with security holes and bugs which can cost a business thousands and even millions of dollars in lost sales.
- Green energy BS - MASSIVE waste issues surrounding old solar panels and wind turbines, mining of rare earth metals for batteries and the idiotic "logic" of using fossil fuels to charge the batteries in electric cars....plus the FACT that there is no such thing as "man made" global warming as per the ACTUAL scientific data....and NOT the manipulated/changed/made up/parsed to "prove" their point data they shovel to the mass media and comatose, lemming public
- and of course the biggest entity to screw people over with BS is the US Gov't agencies/departments/committees, etc., (i.e. massive taxes on everything, covid crimes against humanity (shout out to the complicit Chinese Communist Gov't as well on this one), BS health info...i.e food pyramid BS, etc., "man made" global warming BS propaganda, false fear propaganda (nuclear energy, hole in ozone, water "shortages", killer bees, new ice age, running out of gas/oil, human extinction due to "fill in the blank", sun spots, etc,.) and on and on it goes!

[Lumos]

Yes MThomas, I totally agree with you as to our species being a very messy, wasteful and destructive lot.

So much that is egoically motivated by crazed profiteers - then of course there is territoriality - power madness and not to forget the madness of things like pole-eee-ticks and ree-leeg-eons which mostly serve to create ONLY ever widening divides.

What with the great extermination well in progress, if even a breeding population survives the inevitable ELE, there will likely be very little concern remaining towards 'profits'.

[discomix]

Interesting writeup mate! The corporate greed can make them even sell coffin in advance before you die!

[Lumos]

for your reply here Discomix.

Coffins and burials are a very silly old egoic tradition IMO.

Very wasteful too - burying perfectly good materials that are even now in shortages.