Someone I know recently bought an HP DeskJet GT 5820, which has a "bladder" built into it. The package included 4 full bottles of ink, ~60cc for each color. Tha

Someone I know recently bought an HP DeskJet GT 5820, which has a "bladder" built into it. The package included 4 full bottles of ink, ~60cc for each color. That's enough ink to print thousands of pages, and I don't think the printer even has any way to detect whether it's been refilled with genuine HP ink. You just open the top and squeeze ink into one of the four color-coded tanks. The whole package, including more than half a pint of ink, came in at around $200. But it's Asia here, so I don't know if the same model is available in the States. Maybe HP will sue you if you try to import it, like what happened to that Asian kid who tried to import cheap textbooks. Meanwhile, my HP LaserJet 1022n has been going strong for 10 years now, and 4 of those years have been with $10 recycled toner cartridges from a local seller. I'm not sure whether HP even has the ability to brick my printer if they knew what I was doing, because I haven't seen a driver update for ages, let alone a firmware update. So yeah, maybe HP does crappy things only in countries where they can legally get away with it. Stop letting them get away with it.