Perhaps this explains the problem with my deskjet 610CL
The black cartridge ran out.  I put a less expensive Data Products cartridge
in (more ink, less money)
and ever since it acts like it's out of paper.

Jim Mc Coy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne R. Boyer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 3:42 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] INSIDE HP - ink cartridge info...


> From the latest issue of INSIDE HP.....
>
>
> > End Around: Chicago Tribune reporter Jim Coates wrote that his HP
printer
> > quit on him one day, telling him that the black ink cartridge had
expired.
> > A spare ink cartridge yielded the same results. HP support told Coates
that
> > the printer software reads a date code on cartridges and blocks their
use
> > after a set length of time. He was told the block could not be bypassed.
> > But it can: "The best way to defeat such a software scheme that uses a
> > computer's internal clock to enforce software copy protection or check
> > expiration dates is to set the computer to a past year when the days of
the
> > week for every month fall on the same dates as this year," Coates wrote.
> > "Do this and your calendar continues to be accurate, and you fool the
> > enforcers. The pattern of dates associated with specific days usually
> > rotates every six or 11 years and always every 28 years. So, the 1997
> > calendar is exactly like the 2003 calendar, and so is the 1975 one. Set
> > your clock/calendar to either year to fool the printer cartridge
> > expiration-date check."
> >
>
> Did anybody else notice this? (and the hilarious thing about the wireless
> keyboards!)  This confirms a report that I had from a DeskJet user.  We
will
> be attempting to update our cross-reference of what cartridge goes with
what
> printer model with additional info on which cartridges have nasty date
stamps
> in them.  For laughs and giggles, think about how useful a printer will be
> after HP discontinues the manufacture of ink cartridges for it and all
> existing cartridges "expire".
>
> Wayne Boyer
> Cal-Logic
> PS: Can anybody help me define the term "planned obsolescence"?
>
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