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Jan. 20th, 2003 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumWell, I got my printer working, but either the cartridge has dried up, or the fascist chip in the toner cartridge decided I'd gone too long without buying a new toner cartridge.
Somehow I feel that the act of buying a toner cartridge, especially for a Lexmark, is some form of surrender. I don't want to send them the message that there's one more sucker out there who will willingly pay more for a toner cartridge than some printers cost. Especially one with a special microchip in it that prevents me from refilling it myself. A situation that they desire with such fervor that they've invoked the DMCA to prevent me from buying toner elsewhere.
Even though the price difference is only a few bucks, I don't know how the savings would add up because I can't seem to find any information about how many pages I can expect to wring out of a particular cartridge. That information would be useful, even moreso if I knew how often I expected to print things.
Should I be looking at alternatives, like buying a printer that takes cheaper cartridges? Or should I just shut up and buy the toner and write Lexmark a letter thanking them for being so draconian?
Somehow I feel that the act of buying a toner cartridge, especially for a Lexmark, is some form of surrender. I don't want to send them the message that there's one more sucker out there who will willingly pay more for a toner cartridge than some printers cost. Especially one with a special microchip in it that prevents me from refilling it myself. A situation that they desire with such fervor that they've invoked the DMCA to prevent me from buying toner elsewhere.
Even though the price difference is only a few bucks, I don't know how the savings would add up because I can't seem to find any information about how many pages I can expect to wring out of a particular cartridge. That information would be useful, even moreso if I knew how often I expected to print things.
Should I be looking at alternatives, like buying a printer that takes cheaper cartridges? Or should I just shut up and buy the toner and write Lexmark a letter thanking them for being so draconian?
