Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

54609 readers

601 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others

Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

💰 Please help cover server costs.


Ko-fi	Liberapay

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Region blocked printers (kbin.social)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

29 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

printer, colour laserjet, that is from another ‘region’,

What the fuck HP. I've been using cheap cartridges from Aliexpress without issues.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Which makes me think that the 3rd party replacement cartridges would be fine, I'd just like to know for sure before wasting money on them. I actually don't mind the original cartridges. We did replace our yellow with a 3rd party cartridge at one point and you could actually see a difference, but for the time being I just want to get as much as we can out of our old cartridges before making the official switch.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We did replace our yellow with a 3rd party cartridge at one point and you could actually see a difference

I can see the difference as well, on mine the blacks are a bit less black. But we're talking about a 30$ peer cartridge difference to print stuff that will be discarded at some point so I don't care.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I have the colour laser jet as I'm printing things that will be kept around like print and play games, or standees for skirmish/rpg games. I may give it a go on one colour though and see. I just wasn't sure if the official and region locking part of these cartridges was in the same bit or if it was something that might have to be bypassed separately. But if you're getting cartridges from aliexpress then it's probably fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Not all 3rd party inks are created equal, btw.