{"id":104333,"date":"2016-09-19T08:08:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T06:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=104333"},"modified":"2016-09-19T08:09:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T06:09:57","slug":"hp-has-been-pre-programming-failure-dates-of-unofficial-non-hp-ink-cartridges-into-its-printers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/104333-hp-has-been-pre-programming-failure-dates-of-unofficial-non-hp-ink-cartridges-into-its-printers","title":{"rendered":"HP has been pre-programming failure dates of unofficial non-HP ink cartridges into its printers"},"content":{"rendered":"

HP has been programming dates into its printer firmware on which unofficial non-HP cartridges would purposely fail, according to a report by myce<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The news was revealed when thousands of HP printers showed the exact same error on 13 September.<\/p>\n

HP stated that the error was due to a recently released firmware update, however there was no official firmware released any time around 13 September.<\/p>\n

“The printers with issues received a firmware update in March 2016 for the last time, and that firmware was developed in 2015”.<\/p>\n

This problem is not unique. Printer manufacturers regularly release firmware updates which are said to enhance the printer\u2019s performance or address security issues.<\/p>\n

The (un) intended result, however, is that the use of cheaper private label cartridges is made difficult and \/ or that error messages are caused.<\/p>\n

This time the problem was not the result of an update to improve the operation of the printer, but HP apparently programmed a date in its firmware on which the issues should start, the September 13, 2016.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The question now remains, do all HP printers have built-in failure dates?<\/p>\n

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Thought you still had ink left in the printer? You probably do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":104339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[31,18767,12245,21949,21951],"class_list":["post-104333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-failure","tag-hp","tag-ink","tag-unofficial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104343,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104333\/revisions\/104343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}