> but I'm pretty sure that it is legal (in the US at least), to buy a printer and swap out the control board if one so desires. If such a thing ever started to

> but I'm pretty sure that it is legal (in the US at least), to buy a printer and swap out the control board if one so desires. If such a thing ever started to get traction, I'd expect HP would likely bury the people involved in litigation. Just off the top of my head they could probably start with the DMCA angle. "Your control board is a bypass for our DRM". :/ Probably similar to how console modders get arrested and thrown in jail.