New ink stink

Having been all but convicted of gouging us on the cost of ink, now printer makers stand accused of including a secret expiry date in its cartridges. A US woman claims in a lawsuit that HP builds in electronics which instruct the cartridges to play dead after a certain amount of time (presumably a best-before type of thing).

It would sort of make sense if HP at least had the decency to tell users they have only so long to use up their cartridges. We await the result of this case with interest.