HP 'timebomb' prevents inkjet printers using unofficial cartridges

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  • How many other brands of printers do this as well? This seems like something that would be too significant an advantage to have one company doing it and not others.

  • Surely HP are opening themselves up to a lawsuit (or DoJ/EU investigations) here?