HP’s long-running use of firmware updates that block third-party ink and toner cartridges is drawing scrutiny again – this time under a new global sustainability standard that explicitly forbids the practice.
The International Imaging Technology Council (Int’l ITC), a trade group for cartridge remanufacturers, says HP’s latest printer firmware rollout conflicts with the requirements of the General Electronics Council’s (GEC) updated Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, or EPEAT 2.0.
I paid $0.01 for a flash drive at Microcenter and $0.10 per page(or job, I don’t know) to print at the library. I don’t even have a library card there. I learned enough about printers taking an A+ class to not want to fuck around with printers at home.
Wait how did you pay 1 cent for a flash drive? I mean they’re cheap but I’ve never seen them for that cheap.
Probably some “sale” for when you purchase something else for $50 at 50% markup. Bonus of adding to “sales” tally for some generations old dogshit flash drive they otherwise could not sell.