I bought a store-brand (refilled) color ink cartridge for my HP Officejet (7310xi All-in-One). When I installed it the screen gave a message saying HP Ink Depleted from Cartridge (specifically HP ink!). Obviously HP has put a smart chip in their cartridges to detect when their ink is depleted, meaning that it knows the cartridge has been refilled.

When I tried to print anything in color with that cartridge, the colors were screwed (mostly green). The message and poor print quality were both true on two different printers. So, this may just be a bad cartridge, and I will find out when I exchange it.

But… I’m wondering… does anyone know if HP has intentionally programmed their printers to NOT work with refilled cartridges, thus screwing us all and forcing us to by their own ridiculously overpriced cartridges?

Suzy

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Comments

BlurredMind on 3 November, 2008 at 4:26 am #

The others can give bad quality prints only know that espson printers come.


smedrik on 5 November, 2008 at 11:21 pm #

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