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HP’s Ink Subscription Has DRM That Disables Your Printer Cartridges
- salawat 8y agoI think I ran into something like this this weekend setting back up my aunt's family computer. They have a Deskjet 2541C, and after installing the drivers and having to click "No" about 20 7-10 times to indicate that no, I did not want to sign up or subscribe to any online services, I was cheerfully informed that her HP color cartridge she had paid good money for was apparently "counterfeit" and had to click through about 5 more portentous dialogs making this cartridge sound like a toolkit that would steal her financials before the bloody thing would even print a b&w test page. I could only get her rolling with black and white printing since the printer refuses to have anything to do with that cartridge, despite it being an official HP one. After looking around online, I noticed a few people ended up having the same type of thing happen, and apparently for the Mac folks at least, there was a generic driver out there that could apparently fix the problem that wasn't hosted on HP's site. I couldn't shake the feeling the terrible experience is meant to frustrate people into signing up for something, and this article finally answered what that something would be.