submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Piracy adjacent here. We have a printer, colour laserjet, that is from another 'region', was a really nice printer and we bought it just before moving and decided to bring it. There is an equivalent printer here with the same cartridges but we've found out they're 'region locked'. Brand is HP/Samsung.

I was wondering if anyone knows if third party cartridges which work around the chip also work around the region protection? We can actually region reset our printer, however 2/4 toner cartridges still have quite a bit in them so we'd like to use those up completely before switching.

Anyone know much about this?

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Without knowing the exact model it's difficult to know for certain but you can buy off brand refill kits with chips. The printer may intentionally degrade quality with the aftermarket chips (and may never reset itself even if you return to official toner)... HP is just a terrible company.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The printer is a samsung originally, HP owns their overseas business, and they have an identical model here just branded with HP. it's a really good printer. It's the Samsung version of the HP Color Laser 178nw.