[mommadooo3]

HEADS UP!!! Vote NO!!!

Lexmark ALSO has some OTHER type of chip in it that will cause your cartridges to STOP working after xxx amount of print jobs or xxxx amount of time. ( I have TWO half full cartridges now, black and color. And at $32-$36 each, they will hit the burn pile as I go to buy ANOTHER brand printer.)

Any suggestions?

[Trust but Verify]

Good luck! HP is just as bad. The printer we now have starts sending out low ink readings when the cartridge is still half full. For someone who is worried about running out, they will change the cartridge and throw the 'old' one out. It's a racket.

PS I recently bought an 'off brand' cartridge to replace our black ink. So far, so good and it was 33% cheaper than HP. They also state on the package that using it would not invalidate your warranty.

[Dan(9698)]

>>>Any suggestions?

Call the Federal Trade Commission and tell them exactly what you wrote here and file a complaint because you cannot use what you bought.

Let the Feds fight this fight. It is Restraint of Trade.

It is also fraud to sell something that is only partially useable.

They can only act if they have complaints of specific acts and evidence to support the complaint. Keep the cartriges so you can demonstrate what you claim.

[Charles Martel]

Lexmark ALSO has some OTHER type of chip in it that will cause your cartridges to STOP working after xxx amount of print jobs or xxxx amount of time.

I was wondering how they were planning on getting around the "home-refill" kits. This is going to kill Lexmark as more and more people switch to digital photography. The photo-grade color injet printers use so much ink that there are aftermarket bulk ink supply kits. Literally jars of ink, attached to the print head via plastic tubes attached to modified ink cartridge bodies.

A shutdown circuit will only send people in search of some other company's printer. If *all* printer manufacturers adopt that scheme, people will devise a way around it.

[newgeezer]

Any suggestions?

Investigate your purchase before you take the plunge. Check the price of consumables. Read product reviews online, both from owners and trade publications.

Vote YES. Stop advancing the nanny state.

[Eagle Eye]

For a while, I was buying cheap printers at $29-39 a pop to get the $60 worth of ink.

Now I've got a couple unused printers in my garage and the new ones come sans ink.

So far, I've used one of the refill kits and one the first refill got more than twice the use as compared with the original.

Imagine if we had to but ink by the gallon at the refill cartridge price?!

[Vinnie]

Suggestions

I was in the market for a new printer around Christmas.
I went to all the usual sites to determine the best, etc.

I finally settled on a Canon S520. Then I went to Consumer Reports and guess what, it was their choice.
It isn't the best at text and some are better at photos but it is very good. AND, ink is cheap (relatively speaking, about $10).

Found it on the web for less than $100.