{"id":17481,"date":"2022-01-12T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17481"},"modified":"2022-01-12T13:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:18:02","slug":"2022-01-12-printer-ink-cartridges-are-a-ripoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17481","title":{"rendered":"2022-01-12 Printer Ink Cartridges Are A Ripoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From FB group<\/p>\n<p>The article said DRM, but it didn&#8217;t make sense to me either. But what makes me wonder is why do they go to the trouble and expense to put a chip in the cartridge if it&#8217;s just a matter of accepting the prompt that appears??? What purpose does the chip serve?<\/p>\n<p>The whole printer ink thing seems a bit absurd. I had only one color inkjet printer and hardly ever used it, because at that time, 20+ years ago a set of cartridges cost $75.00 and I thought that was outrageous.<\/p>\n<p>Then I found out that the companies were selling each printer with less than full cartridges! That forced the customer into prematurely buying the expensive cartridges! I think it was the reason why so many went to Kinko&#8217;s to do their printing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From FB group The article said DRM, but it didn&#8217;t make sense to me either. But what makes me wonder is why do they go to the trouble and expense to put a chip in the cartridge if it&#8217;s just a matter of accepting the prompt that appears??? What purpose does the chip serve? The<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17481\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,255,1346,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-consumer-information","category-hardware","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17482,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481\/revisions\/17482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}