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Message: [QUOTE="VA1DER, post: 217056, member: 15186"] I'm a tinfoil hat kind of guy. Especially when it comes to HP. No other explanation except HP malfeasance cna explain the long and varied history I've had fighting with their products. I started off as their biggest fan, and slowly progressed to the point I will not even consider them, even when offered free hardware to review. My Officejet 7610 was the last HP I bought or will ever have. I have experienced problems not unlike what you are, though in my case my printer had removable/replaceable print heads, and these are not covered on the plan. So it made sense (from HP's perspective) for my printheads to go since replacing them netted HP more money. The days of HP having replaceable print heads are gone, though, and it doesn't make much sense for your printer to decide its print heads need replacing as soon as it sees another printer on the network. That just means you're more likely to turf the printer entirely and go with the other one altogether and halt the ink plan. That being said, lots of vestigial code could exist in the HP drivers and/or firmware, and those little consumer unfriendly gems like you are thinking about are not likely to be widely talked about even amongst HP system developers, so I could see it making its way into a newer printer even accidentally. Had you recently switched to a non-plan ink cartridge? HP printers on ink plans know when a non-ink-plan cartridge is installed and have been known to experience various "issues" when that happens. When HP is in danger of not getting their protection money, bad things happen to their printers. [/QUOTE]

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