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The InkJet cartridge... half full, or half empty?
Posted 09/13/2003 @ 12:35 PM, by Ken "Caesar" Fisher
Or should we just be irritated that it's half anything? That's the gist of a lawsuit that was brought against HP earlier this year. A North Carolina man kicked off a class action lawsuit against HP after realizing that HP was only supplying "half full" inkjet cartridges with their new printers. It turns out that HP was putting so-called "economy" cartridges in their new retail printers, which is a nice way of saying that they were providing half-full cartridges. The suit charged that HP was misleading consumers by failing to note that the cartridges that come with their printers are not equivalent to the cartridges you would buy as replacements. The key here is that the printers all come in boxes touting the fact that cartridges are included.
HP's defense was that, once you opened the box, you would find information that clearly indicated that the cartridge was an economy unit. Yet, it was argued, by this point a consumer would have already purchased the printer expecting a full cartridge. As such, the suit charged that consumers were being overcharged for what they were getting. In the end, HP won. How?
To reach a conclusion, the jurors had to answer several questions on the verdict sheet. The first question was: "Did the average consumer purchasing an HP printer reasonably expect that the host print cartridge(s) included with the printers would be the same as the full HP replacement cartridge(s)?" The second question was: "Did HP adequately disclose to the average consumer that the host print cartridges included with the printers would be half-filled with ink?"
The jury came back with a 'no' and a 'yes,' respectively. HP got lucky on this one. If I buy something and the "batteries included" sticker is on the box, I expect full batteries. If I take my car to the service station and they tell me that they're going to "gas her up," I'm surely expecting more than a half-tank.
Posted 09/13/2003 @ 12:35 PM, by Ken "Caesar" Fisher
Or should we just be irritated that it's half anything? That's the gist of a lawsuit that was brought against HP earlier this year. A North Carolina man kicked off a class action lawsuit against HP after realizing that HP was only supplying "half full" inkjet cartridges with their new printers. It turns out that HP was putting so-called "economy" cartridges in their new retail printers, which is a nice way of saying that they were providing half-full cartridges. The suit charged that HP was misleading consumers by failing to note that the cartridges that come with their printers are not equivalent to the cartridges you would buy as replacements. The key here is that the printers all come in boxes touting the fact that cartridges are included.
HP's defense was that, once you opened the box, you would find information that clearly indicated that the cartridge was an economy unit. Yet, it was argued, by this point a consumer would have already purchased the printer expecting a full cartridge. As such, the suit charged that consumers were being overcharged for what they were getting. In the end, HP won. How?
To reach a conclusion, the jurors had to answer several questions on the verdict sheet. The first question was: "Did the average consumer purchasing an HP printer reasonably expect that the host print cartridge(s) included with the printers would be the same as the full HP replacement cartridge(s)?" The second question was: "Did HP adequately disclose to the average consumer that the host print cartridges included with the printers would be half-filled with ink?"
The jury came back with a 'no' and a 'yes,' respectively. HP got lucky on this one. If I buy something and the "batteries included" sticker is on the box, I expect full batteries. If I take my car to the service station and they tell me that they're going to "gas her up," I'm surely expecting more than a half-tank.
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It's amazing how many different stories there have been lately about ink jet printer ink cartridges. There was the hype-filled stories of ink jet makers warning everyone of the (ooooh, scary!) dangers of not buying their own ink jet cartridges, followed quickly by the story showing that some printer manufacturers are trying to force users to throw out old cartridges even when they have lots of ink. The latest is a series of class-action lawsuits filed against HP, arguing that they were deceptive in advertising on the box that it includes an ink cartridge. It turns out that it includes an "economy" ink cartridge which is only half-full. The argument is that the consumer buying the printer isn't going to know that, and actually thinks he or she is getting $20 to $40 more of product than they're really getting. However, a jury in North Carolina has ruled in favor of HP, saying that they didn't believe this practice was deceptive. Even though it doesn't say it's a half-cartridge on the box, it does inside the box. Of course, I don't see how you read what's inside the box until after you've bought it.
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It is illegal for a printer company to state that using compatible cartridges will void the printer's warranty:
Magnuson-Moss Warranty Improvement Act
United States Code Annotated
Title 15 Commerce and Trade
Chapter 50 Consumer Product Warranties
15 Section 2302
(c) No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer's using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade or corporate name; except that the prohibition of this subsection be waived by the commission if:
1) The warrantor satisfies the Commission that the warranted product will function properly only if the article or service so identified is used in connection with the warranted product, and
2) the Commission finds that such a waiver is in the public interest.
Magnuson-Moss Warranty Improvement Act
United States Code Annotated
Title 15 Commerce and Trade
Chapter 50 Consumer Product Warranties
15 Section 2302
(c) No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer's using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade or corporate name; except that the prohibition of this subsection be waived by the commission if:
1) The warrantor satisfies the Commission that the warranted product will function properly only if the article or service so identified is used in connection with the warranted product, and
2) the Commission finds that such a waiver is in the public interest.
S300的兼容墨盒更便宜,彩色的不到8$,黑白的不到6$.去这可以看到,www.ottawainkjet.com,首页就有广告.
一个新的打印机才50$,至少可以用三年,厂家不靠耗材赚钱才怪,所以原装的墨盒会很贵.所以总的来说,如果某种打印机买不到兼容的墨盒,就不划算.
我原来用的是HP DJ920,墨盒太贵,后来换成canon i320,买了半年多,已经把买新机器的钱省回来了.
