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by slater 359 days ago
> Where did you get the idea that it isn't possible to do so?

Not op, but the various "must use our genuine brand printer cartridges!" schemes that printer manufacturers have used over the past, oh, 2 decades might have something to do with it?

edit to clarify: I mean the cartridges with their own chips that HP et al. tried to make happen a while back

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