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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Nothing about those ink cartridges is special enough to justify the kind of locking you're justifying here, nor is a printer a service relying on HP operations to run in the same way an internet service or gas service is. And that's all assuming this was a rented printer, not an owned one.