HP now also provides evacuation of the product pages for most of the printers it sells, saying that the device “aims to work only using cartridges that contain a new HP slice or reuse” and uses dynamic safety “to prevent cartridges using a non -HP chip.”
“The periodic fixed program updates will maintain the effectiveness of these measures and the cartridges of the cartridges that have already succeeded. The HP SIM allows them to use cartridges. Support page About dynamic safety. The support page indicates that “most HP printers can be formed to receive updates either automatically or with a notice that allows you to choose whether you want to update or not.” However, some HP software, such as instant ink, require users to enable automatic fixed programs on HP printers.
All this means that despite the recently approved settlement, dynamic safety is still an important part of most HP printers, and HP will continue to feel their right to use fixed program updates to prohibit the sudden printers made after December 1, 2016, from using a non -HP ink. The owners of the HP printers that were made after that date that allow automatic updates and still work with third -party accessories if this ability was suddenly leveled one day.
Dynamic litigation
Although HP does not pay an amount for the semester members this time, it previously agreed to pay millions with regard to brick printers: in 2022, it agreed to pay $ 1.35 million to European clients, and in 2020, the Italian Anti -Monopathic Authority fined HP for 10 million euros. In 2019, HP said it would pay $ 1.5 million To settle a similar collective issue in California, and almost pushed $ 50 Australian Both Australian customers are affected by dynamic security in 2018.
There is also an open issue against HP regarding its ink practices, and it is a collective complaint submitted by the American District Court in the Northern Province in Illinois in January 2024. The lawsuit focuses on dynamic security fixture updates “in late 2022 and early 2023” and accused HP from the creation of “a monopoly in the brand after the brand”. [PDF]. Prosecutors seek an order to announce that HP has broken the law, and was ruled against dynamic security, and monetary and punitive damage.
Another lawsuit was rejected, in mid-2012 on some HP All-in-One printers that failed to wipe or fax without ink.
HP printer arm has other urgent issues that must be addressed. Earlier this month, the fixed programming update has destroyed specific HP printer models, and prevented them from printing, even when using HP ink. HP ARS told last week that he was “actively working on a solution.”