Moving To Another Country? Contact HP Customer Services First.

Planning to emigrate? Probably the last thing you're concerned about is making sure your Hewlett Packard printer works in your destination country. Yet a little known Hewlett Packard policy means this is one thing you should ensure before stowing your bags and catching that flight. HP region encode their printers to only work with ink cartridges bought in the same nation. Hence consumers who replenish their printer with cartridges bought in their new homeland will find them incompatible, and their printer useless.

HP encode their printers in order to guarantee consumers only pay locally dictated prices: an English consumer becomes unable to exploit a favourable exchange rate with the dollar to buy cheap ink, for example. This is perfectly within Hewlett Packard's rights as the manufacturer. Inadvertently however, the policy persecutes consumers who emigrate, unaware that their printers will be incomptible with locally encoded cartridges.

Fortunately, consumers in this situation need not shell out to buy a new HP printer: the region code can be easily reset over the phone. Simply call Hewlett Packard customer services, explain your situation and be persistent: HP may be initially reluctant to distribute the correct code, though ultimately should do so without charge. Calling HP will ensure your printer works once you've emigrated, and save you a major headache.

Happy moving!

Switch Your Font To Century Gothic And Save Money

It’s too easy to tally your printing expenditure at the end of six months and find it rivals the national debt. There’s the cost of stocking the paper tray, replenishing the ink cartridges, and maintaining the machine itself. The occasional minor outlay contributes to (what is before long) a shockingly large total!

Of course, there are several means to bring down the cost of printing. Perhaps the most important is switching from official to remanufactured ink cartridges. These remanufactured cartridges (available at 999inks.co.uk now) offer comparable printing to OEM cartridges at a much lower price. They’re an incredible way to create savings!

In addition, printer owners can further reduce their printing costs by making one change to their word processing habits. This change? Switch the standard font to Century Gothic. According to recent findings from the University of Wisconsin, Century Gothic is the world’s most economical font – using 30% less ink to generate letters than Arial. Over the course of several documents, that creates a massive saving – so go Gothic!

Come back soon to the 999inks Blog for more money saving tips!

Can You Recycle Ink Cartridges Through Local Government?

In the UK most local councils run recycling programs. However, they differ depending on where you live, leaving many people uncertain what they can recycle. For example, can you recycle ink cartridges through your council?


Fortunately help is available. Visit RecycleNow.com and enter your postcode, and the website tells you what items can be recycled in your area. No more uncertainty about whether to recycle ink cartridges!

You may discover that your council does not recycle ink cartridges. If so, contact your cartridge manufacturer: brands like Lexmark run recycling programs, free to their customers. Alternately these charities run recycling programs:

CashForCartridges.co.uk

Cartridges4Charity.co.uk

EmptyCartridge.co.uk

Recycool.org

RecycleInkCartridges.co.uk

Sand Printer Provides Seagulls With Reading Material

Ever wanted to print a document viewable from space? Without petitioning HP to make a 100ft tall printer with ink cartridges to match, you couldn’t have found much luck.

Until now that is – because the sand printer by conceptual designers Zanadesign produces letters several feet tall. The only things to worry about are the tide, and that the Spanish wheel only prints the words ‘Cadiz 2012.’

The brainchild of Tomás Silva Alonso, a graduate of London’s Royal College of Art, the sand printer is powered by positioning small children inside the circumference, and convincing them to push.

Though the words ‘Cadiz 2012’ commemorate 200 years of the Spanish constitution, meaning that the wheel was created in the spirit of peace, how the children are made to push we can’t imagine.

The sand printer came into being after Alonso sent the idea to Cadiz council, winning first prize in a ‘Promote Cadiz 2012’ competition. The council soon contacted Alonso, and asked him to develop a working model.

Made of inorganic materials, the sand printer impacts on the beach without making a negative impression on the environment. What’s more, it gives the seagulls something to peruse whilst chewing on stolen chips.

Companies Settle With Canon Over Ink Patent Infringement

999inks.co.uk News: Companies Settle With Canon Over Ink Patent Infringement


A patent infringement lawsuit raised by Canon against five companies in Japan has been settled. The suit concerned the firms’ alleged recreation of Canon’s LED-equipped ink cartridges - a patented innovation – in their own cartridges without permission. The settlement means the five companies concerned are agreed not to sell, import or display the patented cartridges. Canon has agreed to drop the lawsuit.

Canon’s preliminary injunction for the lawsuit was petitioned on 31 October last year. Since then the Japanese ink merchants have agreed to halt sales of 28 products of 3 brands. Each of these products, though non-genuine, is compatible with Canon printers.

Canon’s press release – dated 17 December – contains an (almost) apologia for the lawsuit. It states: ‘Canon filed a patent infringement suit for preliminary and permanent injunctions because the company determined that the abovementioned actions infringed its intellectual property rights.’ This self-justification accompanies a grace period in which the Japanese companies must dispose of their inventories of the patented ink cartridges. The closing date is the 31st March 2010.

Drug Dealer Squirreled £1,700 In Printer

999Inks.co.uk News: Drug Dealer Squirreled £1,700 In Printer


A 20 year old male who kept cannabis in his home for a drug dealer squirreled £1,700 in payment inside his printer, a Liverpool Crown Court hearing found this Tuesday. The home of Ashley Moorcroft was searched by police the day after he was caught holding a bag of cannabis and £1,825 in his car. Pleading guilty for possession of the drug, Moorcroft has been sentenced to 6 months in prison and ordered to perform 180 hours unpaid work.

According to a 17 December 2009 article by Linda Roughley at Crosbyherald.com, police caught Moorcroft on the evening of May 1st in Blundellsands. He was seen walking to a Silver BMW from his own car, where on return he was questioned by police. Officers noted the strong smell of cannabis in the vehicle, and Moorcroft’s extreme nervousness. On searching the car, the police found a bag of cannabis in the roof lining of the driver’s side.

Initially Moorcroft protested that he didn’t know to whom the cannabis belonged. However, he soon conceded that he was holding it for a drug dealer. On being arrested and taken into custody, Moorcroft was found with £1,825 about his person. It was on the following day that police searched his home on Merrilocks Road, and discovered £1,700 hidden inside his printer. The money was stored in the ink cartridge slot.

Moorcroft pleaded guilty to counts of possessing cannabis and concealing criminal property, when his trial was held at the Liverpool Crown Court. His 6 months sentence has been suspended for 12 months, and he must perform 180 hours unpaid work.

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