IMPERATIVE READING for ALL Lexmark®, Dell® and IBM® customers using compatible or remanufactured cartridges WORLDWIDE.

Posted by Mike on 3/2/2011 to News

Lexmark CAN AND HAS used a change of firmware that kills compatible or remanufactured cartridges.
On January 12th 2011, the Office of Fair Trading and the Trading Standards Institute in the United Kingdom confirmed they are investigating complaints that Lexmark has enabled a firmware change that locks out third party compatible or remanufactured cartridges to those printers.
End User customers previously happy with compatible or remanufactured cartridges were duped into accepting a firmware upgrade that promised to “improve” users’ printers, but has now locked them into using ONLY original Lexmark cartridges. End users have found that the firmware upgrade is irreversible and their printer will not work until all cartridges are original Lexmark cartridges.
Consumers claim this is an anti–competitive and a restrictive trade practice. BEWARE. It could easily happen to YOU.
STOP LEXMARK. STOP DELL. STOP IBM.
Say NO to firmware upgrades on all Lexmark (Dell and IBM equivalent) printers. Safeguard your business; make sure your employees or co-workers say NO to firmware upgrades. You are in danger of losing your right to choose to Lexmark, Dell or IBM if you don’t. Say NO on all printers, not just to those you have today. Safeguard your business for the future. Your business is at stake. ACT NOW.