> Imagine a printer that had a software limit of only printing 5 pages at a time. Most inject printers have exactly that. There's a chip on the ink cartridge w

> Imagine a printer that had a software limit of only printing 5 pages at a time. Most inject printers have exactly that. There's a chip on the ink cartridge which tells the printer how much it can print, the printer then decrements it as prints occur until it reaches 0. Often ink cartridges will be 1/3 full and refuse to print because they're "empty." You used to be able to bypass this by blocking a contact point on the chip, but no longer.