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[PyroDesu]

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Ok, I feel really stupid right about now.

But seriously, why does it complain of expired ink and the make you go through a convoluted process to get it to print again with the same ink?

[Bauglir]

Probably so that you'll give in and buy new ink. I'm skeptical that the rate of decay of printer ink would be so short that an expiration date makes sense, but I've not done the research on that.

[Bdthemag]

GOD DAMNIT, WHY WON'T LONESOME ROAD DOWNLOAD FASTER.

[MaximumZero]

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Ok, I feel really stupid right about now.

But seriously, why does it complain of expired ink and the make you go through a convoluted process to get it to print again with the same ink?

I've asked the same questions, and here are the answers I was given from HP:

A) Ink is considered "Consumable" and therefore needs an expiration date of no more than two years from the manufacture date in the state of New Jersey. Not knowing which packs are headed to NJ, they just label them all to be safe, rather than lose an entire state's worth of sales. (This is the same reason bottled water has an expiration date.)

B) The chip in the cartridge knows that the ink is past its expiration date. Most of the time it just complains that you're using "expired" ink and just prints anyway, depending on brand. (Kodak are serious hardasses about it, whereas Lexmark could give a crap.)

Heads up, if you're using Epson, don't leave it unsealed. They use alcohol based inks, which tend to evaporate about a month after you put them in the printer.

[Rose]

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Ok, I feel really stupid right about now.

But seriously, why does it complain of expired ink and the make you go through a convoluted process to get it to print again with the same ink?

I've asked the same questions, and here are the answers I was given from HP:

A) Ink is considered "Consumable" and therefore needs an expiration date of no more than two years from the manufacture date in the state of New Jersey. Not knowing which packs are headed to NJ, they just label them all to be safe, rather than lose an entire state's worth of sales. (This is the same reason bottled water has an expiration date.)

B) The chip in the cartridge knows that the ink is past its expiration date. Most of the time it just complains that you're using "expired" ink and just prints anyway, depending on brand. (Kodak are serious hardasses about it, whereas Lexmark could give a crap.)

Heads up, if you're using Epson, don't leave it unsealed. They use alcohol based inks, which tend to evaporate about a month after you put them in the printer.

B) The chip in the cartridge knows that the ink is past its expiration date. Most of the time it just complains that you're using "expired" ink and just prints anyway, depending on brand. (Kodak are serious hardasses about it, whereas Lexmark could give a crap.)

(Kodak are serious hardasses about it, whereas Lexmark could give a crap.)

could give a crap

could give a crap

IT'S COULDN'T!!!

RAAAGGGEEEEE

[Dsarker]

He might be using it to mean "they COULD give a crap, but don't."

[MaximumZero]

He might be using it to mean "they COULD give a crap, but don't."

That is the way I use it. Sorry, Japa, but your 'stache has no power over my accent.

[kaijyuu]

Wouldn't "giving crap" be worse than not giving crap? I know I'd rather get nothing than get someone's crap.

[MaximumZero]

I've always wondered the same about...uh...usage of the restroom. I never "take a crap". I always just leave one.

^{_{And now I'm ashamed of myself.}}

[Rose]

Sorry, I think I just had some leftover rage from when people say somebody could care less.

[ein]

I, too, could care less when people say 'I could care less' and mean 'I couldn't care less'~

[Angel Of Death]

My sister's boyfriend is being a self-centered, possibly abusive arsehole again. And I found out that my sister is actually scared of him...


I have never felt rage like this.

[RedKing]

Facebook. Seriously, I think Mark Zuckerberg is a psychic vampire who feeds on rage. That's the only explanation for why they keep making unnanounced changes that make the whole user-experience ten times more frustrating.

Fuck this shit. Time to take a serious look at Google+ (had a beta account for a couple months, but hadn't done much with it).



Also: Earnings reports yesterday: HP bleeding money. Oracle earning money like a boss. Cue rumors that Oracle might buy the soon-to-be-truncated HP. Guess who's the #2 guy over at Oracle (and effectively the day-to-day #1 since Larry Ellison doesn't get his hands dirty with operational details)? Mark-fucking-Hurd, the former CEO of HP who got booted for embezzling money to pay his softcore porn actress-turned-business consultant. And when I say "booted", I mean he got his contract bought out to the tunes of $75 million dollars. He then promptly got hired by Oracle for about $200 million dollars.

If this douchebag becomes my uber-boss again.....gaaAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH.

INCOHERENT RAAEG

[PyroDesu]

Police use forceful tactics against peaceful wall street occupiers:

https://occupywallst.org/

(Seriously, how is a bit of plastic over a camera a TENT?)

[Bauglir]

Well it could be argued that it is a tent for the camera and why am I writing this