Moving this video to chicchorea's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by BoneRemake.

Engineered obsolescence. It isn't that the chip is inaccurate by fluke. It was designed to be inaccurate so you spend more money. Fill up the landfills. Fill up the corporate coffers.

Say it ain't so.

Interesting. I hate it when my inks dry up. Can't reset that!

son of a bitch....

ah, i love consuming.

i like to go out back behind the ink refill places, take all the discarded cartridges, and make home-made pen ink out of it.

*money

Adding video to channels (Money) - requested by gwiz665.

Pffff...my dot matrix never does that

I don't pay attention to the automatic warnings and use the cartridge until the actual prints are lacking ink. However, it seems from the video that they are saying the prints will actually have missing ink even if there is still ink in the cartridge. If this is true then that sucks, otherwise it isn't a really a problem. I wish they were more clear.
-karl

Fake Videos!
Video's that make a claim, but it's all FAKE! So don't get all bent out of shape.

is what the poster of this video calls the playlist within which you find this video.
-Karl

>> ^swedishfriend:

Fake Videos!
Video's that make a claim, but it's all FAKE! So don't get all bent out of shape.
is what the poster of this video calls the playlist within which you find this video.
-Karl


To your first assertion:
Excuse me, your opinion or do you a more substantial basis?

and

To your second:
Huh?

>> ^chicchorea:

>> ^swedishfriend:
Fake Videos!
Video's that make a claim, but it's all FAKE! So don't get all bent out of shape.
is what the poster of this video calls the playlist within which you find this video.
-Karl

To your first assertion:
Excuse me, your opinion or do you a more substantial basis?
and
To your second:
Huh?


I'm not sure that it can be taken as fact, but it would certainly seem that way

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=Printer+Ink+Secret&uni=3

Also, thinking about it - I'm not sure that little board could restrict the flow of ink - although the reporting of the ink left thing could be true.

All things being possible....

Thank you.

My Swedish friend here is not asserting anything, he's merely quoting the original author's playlist.

Good fake videos aren't entirely false, putting some truth in there make people think "oh, I've heard about this before, it's probably true!". This is one of those.
Most modern ink cartridges do have a small circuit board to keep track of how much ink is left and they aren't very accurate. Some printers even refuse to print if they think they're out of ink even when there's ink left, but they don't start faking horizontal lines like they're running out of ink, they just stop printing and tell you to go buy more.
But they do not have a reset button! Why would they need that anyway?

The simplest way to make a small memory to keep track of how much you've printed is to have a small non-erasable ROM filled with zeroes. You can read the ROM and you can write ones to it, but you can't reset those ones back to zeroes. When it's full of ones you know it's "empty". A reset button means either SRAM with a battery or some kind of processor. Both options are overly complicated, expensive and unnecessary.
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>> ^chicchorea:

>> ^swedishfriend:
Fake Videos!
Video's that make a claim, but it's all FAKE! So don't get all bent out of shape.
is what the poster of this video calls the playlist within which you find this video.
-Karl

To your first assertion:
Excuse me, your opinion or do you a more substantial basis?
and
To your second:
Huh?