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] 25 points 1 year ago

Brand is HP

Yup. You fucked yourself. HP printers are absolute garbage in every conceivable way. Genuinely not worth your time or effort to try and work around it.

Buy any other brand. Brother is usually the recommendation if you actually want quality that will last and be serviceable.

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

It wasn't an HP printer when I bought it, it was samsung, and it's a very good printer.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

But I'm guessing HP bought out that particular line of printers; they then would have pushed a firmware update to make those just as bad as their own offerings. They make their money forcing you to use their cartridges; that's why a whole printer with both cartridges is only ~$10 more than just the ink most of the time.

Seriously, cut your losses and move on.