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kony
Just plain wrong.
I take it you don't read warranties very often. Write to
one of the majors and ask them if you can put any cart you
want in one instead of the OEM carts.
Just plain wrong.
kony wrote:
OP's question:
Kony's answer:
Hmmm...answer was not specific to the question. Gee, weren't you
chastising a couple of people for something similar? Yeah, back
in the "Wireless mouse with longest battery life?" thread. <g>
I take it you don't read warranties very often.
Write to one of the majors and ask them if you can
put any cart you want in one instead of the OEM carts.
You can take whatever you like wherever you like.
I actually understand the law and realise that whatever some
manufacturer trys to claim, the warranty is NOT void when you
use other than the manufacturer's cartridge in a printer.
Irrelevant what they say, what matters is the law on that.
Good luck getting them to agree if they know you used a non-authorized cart.
The technicality of it is not always equal to the
reality of actually getting warranty coverage.
Granted, they may not ask and you might not tell them
about it, in which case so long as you dont' leave
the 3rd party carts installed they may never know.
Law cannot entirely exclude all possible failures that
legitimately result from use of a bad or wrong cartridge.
If the printer isn't printing right, it could entirely
be due to an unsuitable 3rd party cart.
User ships it off, they install the right OEM cart and
it prints fine. They refuse the warranty because
there is nothing wrong with the printer, it's the cart.
You want the same printer back, ok, but no warranty replacement.
Dont need to. I know enough about the law to threaten then with a
small claims court action if they are stupid enough to try it, and that
is absolutely guaranteed to see them put their hands up because
their legal parasites understand the law, even if you dont.
See above.
kony said:It doesn't make the tiniest bit of difference which
alternative you, or I, think is best, because that's not
what the OP asked.
kony said:Yep.
a manufacturer can't guarantee proper operation of
a device when they don't know what possible things
could go wrong with aftermarket replacement parts.
They "might" still warrant that THEIR parts work as designed, but
not that the product as a whole does with the 3rd party parts in it.
So, to confirm your 3rd party parts aren't the
problem you have to buy authorized parts anyway,
because their warranty does NOT cover using 3rd party parts.
Yes, see above.
Mindlessly silly. If the printer has a fault when the non-authorized
cart has been replaced with one of the manufacturer's carts,
and its a printer which has the print head as part of the cart,
if its gotta fault, the manufacturer has to honor the warranty.
Thats the law, even if you're so pig ignorant you dont realise that.
The OP here asked for "new inkjet printer that has low running costs."
Your answer of "Keep using your current printer or search the opposite
direction- for cheap compatible cartridges, not printers, and buy one
supported that suits your needs" was not suggesting a new printer as
the OP requested. Same as our suggestion that the OP that was looking
for new mouse consider one with a charger/cradle. I'm just surprised
that you became a hypocrite so quickly. I thought you would be careful
for at least a few days.
Not that's not "the law".
A court might uphold certain users rights
but that is not the same thing as a blanket coverage
of all users, all printers with any random 3rd party
*modification* away from the OEM warranted product.
Ask the printer manufacturer.
Doesn't really matter if you suspect you might win in court
if it isn't worth the hassle of going to court to find out.
kony said:I'm sorry you can't accept you were wrong about the mouse &
batteries, but here's a hint about why you blundered:
You couldn't recognize that "longest run time" was obviously
not meaning rechargables, because the OP had already clearly
expressed wanting that while NOT wanting rechargables.
Thus, no matter how you implement the rechargables, the OP
was already aware they existed and had specifically chosen
to rule that out.
You dont need to bother, all the printer manufacturers
have legals that understand the law, even if you dont.
ALL you have to do is make it clear that you do understand the law to
see them cave in and honor the warranty that you are legally entitled to.
He didn't rule them out. He said he preferred not to use them.
Again, no.
If that were the case they wouldn't have
stated your warranty is void in the first place.
Expect a denial of warranty if they know you use 3rd party carts,
and unlike your disposition here with the all too common
"clown paper bag bullshit" argument mode, a printer
manufacturer isn't going to be swayed at all, will just
delete the email or hang up the phone on you at that point.
If you claim "I"ll take you to court", they'll probably say "OK".
Their lawyers are retained either way, might as
well be doing something as twiddling their thumbs.
kony said:LOL.
So it's a matter of you insisting the OP should use
something he prefers not to.
Maybe in your own little country but not in a free market.