I'm happy that a woman is suing HP for making inkjet cartridges that stop working past a certain date, even if they are full of ink. It's pretty obvious that HP does this to prevent people from refilling the cartridges with 3rd party ink and re-using them.
As part of a book I've been writing, I've been reading up on the history of HP. It seemed like a cool company back in the old days. What a shame it's now making equipment designed to malfunction on a certain date.
H-P ink cartridges use a chip technology to sense when they are low on ink and advise the user to make a change. But, the suit claims, those chips also shut down the cartridges at a predetermined date regardless of whether they are empty.
"The smart chip is dually engineered to prematurely register ink depletion and to render a cartridge unusable through the use of a built-in expiration date that is not revealed to the consumer," the suit said.
