Third-party ink cartridges brick HP printers after 'anti-virus' update
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HP is pushing over-the-air firmware updates to its printers, bricking them if they are using third-party ink cartridges. But don’t...

HP CEO says they brick printers that use third-party ink because of ‘hackers’.::HP is pushing over-the-air firmware updates to its printers, bricking them if they are using third-party ink cartridges. But don’t…

  • @[email protected]English
    15•10 months ago

    Waiting for the OSS 3d print community to return to monke and reinvent an OS ink printer

    • @[email protected]English
      5•10 months ago

      I was checking up on this topic. Turns out that 2D printing is harder than 3D printing. Getting the ink to properly settle on the paper and the nozzle are the hardest tasks.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•10 months ago

        Interesting. There are millions of existing printer nozzles out there, I wonder if making a frankenprinter would be a good development stage.

        Could use a knockoff Chinese company that can’t litigate because they themselves are infringing on someone else