Printer ink continues to be listed as one of the most expensive liquids, and the cost of a liter of home office essentials is the same as a bottle of very high-end sparkling wine or oak aged cognac.
Which consumer advocate? It was found that ink purchased from printer manufacturers was 286% more expensive than third-party alternatives.
Dip the nib into an ink bottle, and then gently wipe off the excess nib on the blotting paper, which one? It was found that the multi-pack of color inks (cyan, magenta, yellow) used in the WorkForce WF-7210DTW printer was priced at £75.49, from Epson.
"This is calculated at a staggering 2,410 pounds a liter-or a pint of 1,369 pounds," Which said.
Consumer agencies also reported that since Epson printers also require a separate Epson black ink cartridge at a price of £31.99, the total cost of ink replacement for Workforce printers is as high as £107.98.
On the other hand, if people abandon the brand and choose a full set of black and color inks from a reputable third-party supplier, it will only cost £10.99-less than one-tenth of the price.
For many workers hiding at home during the pandemic, printing has become essential. Who is the investigation? Of 10,000 consumers find that 54% use their printer at least once a week. which one? Indicates that the inkjet cartridges are estimated to need to be replaced 3 times a year.
The report discovered the strategies used by large suppliers to promote the use of "approved," "original," and "guaranteed" ink supplies.
For example, it found that Epson equipment marked "non-original ink detected" message on its LCD screen when using non-Epson ink cartridges, and HP printers are actively preventing customers from using non-HP consumables.
Adam French, a consumer advocate for which? thinks this situation is completely unacceptable.
“The cost of printer ink should not exceed a bottle of high-end champagne or Chanel No. 5,” French said. "We found that there are many third-party products that perform better than their branded products, but the cost is only a fraction of that."
At a meeting with consumers, he said that third-party inks should be a personal choice, not "determined by the printer's brand."
"Which one? Will continue to make consumers aware of the surprising cost difference between private label and third-party inks, and provide people with the information they need to buy the best inks for their printers," he said.
This is exactly what the Consumers Association said about 20 years ago when it reported about £1,700 per liter of printer ink. At that time-as it is now-the Consumer Association advised consumers to avoid brand-name printer cartridges and choose cheaper alternatives.
Who is the investigation? It was found that 16 third-party brands beat the big brands in terms of ink prices.
Epson is not the only printer company that has been singled out because of high ink prices. Canon and HP have also been blamed.
In the case of Epson, it stated that it "should provide customers with options... to meet their printing needs" and listed many options, including its EcoTank system and monthly ink subscription services.
Epson greets anyone who wants to save money through a third party: “Finally, since non-original inks are not designed or tested by Epson, we cannot guarantee that these inks will not damage the printer. Although Epson does not prevent the use of non-Epson inks, we believe that The warning is reasonable and indeed responsible, because any damage caused by the use of ink may invalidate the warranty."
As part of the investigation, which one? It was discovered that some HP printers use a system called "Dynamic Security" that can identify ink cartridges that use non-HP chips and prevent them from working.
HP is trying to completely reform its printer business model to fight third-party ink manufacturers trying to obtain consumable sales: by shifting to ink cartridge printers that pre-install consumables within the expected time; or by selling printer hardware in advance and allowing commercial customers or consumers Buy the supplies they want.
HP is responding to "Which? The cost of ink is reduced to 70%, and the ink plan starts at £0.99 per month."
Reg readers may remember the confusion surrounding HP's Instant Ink. The free plan is restored, a bit. For existing customers.
At Canon, a spokesperson stated that third-party ink products can be used with its printers, but "internal technology is designed to work correctly with the original inks that we have designed for use with Canon technology."
"We encourage customers to use genuine inks to ensure the longevity of their printers, and to ensure that their final prints meet the standards that we believe to be Canon quality. In addition, the use of third-party inks will invalidate the printer's warranty."
Almost four-tenths (39%) of people say they don’t use third-party ink cartridges because they worry that they might not be able to use their printers, which may explain to some extent why more than half (56%) of the people surveyed Consumers said that despite the availability of cheaper alternatives, they still insist on using original brand ink cartridges that may be expensive. ®
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Cisco has warned buyers and investors that the pain in the supply chain may continue for a few more months.
During the company’s first quarter fiscal year 22 earnings conference call for the three months ended October 30, CEO Chuck Robbins stated that Cisco’s components in the first half of the quarter will Usability has "deteriorated".
"We plan to see some small improvements in the third and fourth quarters," he said. "We don't expect too much. We expect the second quarter to remain stable, and then we think we will see some small improvements in the second half of this fiscal year. This is our current belief based on what we know today."
British scholars have warned that if scientists study rock samples drilled by NASA's Perseverance rover to find evidence of alien life, they should remain suspicious so as not to be fooled by fake fossils.
Sean McMahon, an astrobiologist at the University of Edinburgh and Julie Cosmidis, a geobiologist at the University of Oxford, believe that it is difficult to find clear signs of ancient microbial life in geological materials. Chemical processes on the surface of Mars can produce substances very similar to those produced by living organisms.
Interesting patterns in clay or rock layer sediments appear to be deposited by cell life, such as stromatolites. Scientists may be excited about discovering these structures, but before they jump the gun, they should also consider whether these marks may be carved by geological or chemical processes on Mars.
South Korea has once again implemented new regulations on app stores. This time the system is that if operators impose their proprietary in-app payment system on developers, they will be fined up to 2% of revenue.
"Considering that the enforcement of certain payment methods is a serious violation of the application market operator, an enforcement regulation has been formulated to impose a fine of 2% of sales and 1% of sales for delayed screening or deletion "The Korean Communications Commission (KCC) announced yesterday in a (Korean) canned food statement.
The new regulations came after the country’s “Telecom Services Law,” which was introduced in September 2021, which prevents tech giants from restricting payment options on their platforms—for payment applications or in-app purchases. The bill also prevents Google, Apple and other companies from taking a share of in-app purchases promoted by third-party services.
The Prime Minister of India called for international cooperation to regulate cryptocurrencies.
Modi delivered a speech at the Sydney Dialogue, an online event hosted by the Australian Institute of Strategic Policy, a think tank on defense and strategic policy, today, praising India’s technology sector for helping to solve the millennium bug problem, creating value through its booming entrepreneurial scene, and improving citizens’ lives , And open source the Co-WIN COVID-19 management application. The Prime Minister also put forward the optimistic view that technology will improve the world.
But when discussing some technologies and developments in the technology industry, he took a different stand.
The Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore (PDPC) has imposed a fine of S$74,000 (US$54,456) on the travel company Commeasure, which operates a travel booking website called RedDoorz, which exposed the data of 5.9 million customers-this is the commission The largest data breach handled since its establishment.
PDPC announced the penalty for “failure to take reasonable security measures to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of customer personal data hosted in cloud databases”.
RedDoorz initially started operations in Indonesia and then moved its operations to Singapore, where it aggregated budget hotel reservations in selected Southeast Asian cities. Users choose budget hotels from RedDoorz based on photos, area, and price, but they don't always know the actual name or location of the hotel. When travelers arrive, the hotel room experience will be renamed RedDoorz, and certain guaranteed services will be provided, such as WiFi, TV, and drinking water.
Open Infrastructure Foundation, where OpenStack is located, has a new project: an open source multi-cloud management platform called Taibai.
The code for this project was donated by Fiberhome, a platinum member of the foundation operating in China, providing information and communication network products and related services.
The tool allows for authentication across multiple clouds, tracking resources on-premises and in the cloud, and can manage virtual machines in two locations. Today, the tool can be used with OpenStack, AWS, and Alibaba Cloud, but the capacity to drive the VMware cloud is small.
So this is embarrassing for VMware. The virtualization giant has updated its flagship vSphere suite because it did not solve the problems to be solved when it was released, and it may make the problems worse.
This upgrade is vSphere 7 Update 3b, which is the subject of a VMware blog post "Important Update" on November 15. It provides fixes for issues that may cause vSphere to crash or prevent certain upgrades from completing successfully. The post has been deleted-but The Register retrieved it from Google’s cache [PDF].
vSphere 7 Update 3b also disappeared. VMware's knowledge base page states that it has been removed "due to further complications after the HA configuration upgrade".
A group of Activision Blizzard investors called on CEO Bobby Kotic to resign on Wednesday, claiming that he was aware of allegations of sexual harassment and assault on his employees over the years, but failed to adequately address these issues.
Shareholders collectively own a small portion of the gaming giant's shares, and they also urged chairman Brian Kelly and lead independent director Robert Mogado to resign before the end of the year. In addition, they urged the board of directors to conduct an independent review of the company's "fraternity" culture and promised to "structural reform" of the corporate governance system.
The investor wrote in an open letter [PDF]: "Compared with past company statements, CEO Bobby Kotick is aware of many incidents of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and gender discrimination at Activision Blizzard, but failed to ensure responsible executives. And the manager is fired, or the systemic nature of the company’s hostile workplace culture is recognized and resolved.
For a long time, Apple has hindered customers who want to repair their own devices, and now it says it wants to help those who think they have the right to repair their products.
On Wednesday, iBiz announced self-service repairs, “this will enable customers who are satisfied with completing their repairs to use genuine Apple parts and tools.”
This may be a mixed blessing, because it is well known that Apple hardware is difficult to repair, because special tools are usually required, parts may stick together, and components such as Apple's TouchID sensor and T2 security chip will complicate the work of the device and reassemble it again.
Like many other technical professionals, developers still choose to work from home, even if the way they perform certain functions has returned to pre-pandemic specifications.
This is based on GitHub's annual Octoverse State Survey, which is based on telemetry data from more than 4 million repositories and thousands of developer polls.
Although for many regions, business as usual and the user’s geographic location hardly changed, the survey highlighted the shift in the workplace as the psychological shift of developers from the hope that things might be restored to their acceptance of the reality of the pandemic.
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