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According to this thread [1] (and an unrelated one I can't find anymore) some printer manufacturer region lock their printers accepted cartridges, which makes t

According to this thread [1] (and an unrelated one I can't find anymore) some printer manufacturer region lock their printers accepted cartridges, which makes the product useless in some circumstances just because of your location. I think the incentive is money. 1 train is worth much money, a single printer is not. Most people won't have any issue with the printer and if so, loss is low. If just 1 train has this issue, loss might be huge. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860845 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860845

bayindirh 3y ago
HP does this. I'm not sure if you can reset the value after moving, but the cartridges have a "Region" value. The cartridge region is printed per cartridge while printing "print quality" reports which prints full-nozzle lines to see whether there are any persistently clogged nozzles on your printhead.
probably_wrong 3y ago
My parents are currently bitten by this - they can't find cartridges for their HP printer and I cannot send them any because they wouldn't match the region. Also, some poor soul at The Verge went through hell and back to document the fun experience of trying to use an HP printer on a different region: https://www.theverge.com/23648726/hp-officejet-printer-region-how-to-change-why https://www.theverge.com/23648726/hp-officejet-printer-regio...