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How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps

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Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps

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Post by domh »

domh wrote: post #10

I went through a similar problem with an expensive wifi 6 cable modem router (Netgear Nighthawk CAX80). Spent too much money on it ($400 if I remember rightly) for better internet connectivity from xfinity. Worked well until I moved back to the UK, shipping it across in a container, only to discover that it's not only region locked but if it cannot detect an American-style cable connection, it gets stuck in a reboot…

Oh and don't even get me started on trying to change regions on online accounts and the inconsistencies involved in doing so. Airbnb and Etsy, easy to change. PayPal and PlayStation online account, had to create a new account.

Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

nikanj wrote: post #4
bombcar wrote: post #2

It has always annoyed me that "region settings" don't just take into account the realities of the situation; they're OBVIOUSLY designed to prevent people in "rich" countries from buying media designated for "poor" countries in a form of market segmentation; but that should mean the "rich media" should just work in all devices. Of course now things like the players are so cheap you can just buy multiple if you want to…

You are giving advice on how to circumvent region coding technology, which is probably illegal due to DMCA or some other act

You think non Americans give a flying fuck about a DMCA claim?

I would love to be tried, remotely by an american court for breaking DMCA by bypassing DRM for american made software.

Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps

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Post by Toutouxc »

bombcar wrote: post #5
nikanj wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are giving advice on how to circumvent region coding technology, which is probably illegal due to DMCA or some other act

If I've had to deal with that once, I've had to deal with it 13,256,278,887,989,457,­651,­018,­865,­901,­401,­704,­640 times.

TIL: this comment is about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controve...

Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps

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Post by [deleted] »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #12
nikanj wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are giving advice on how to circumvent region coding technology, which is probably illegal due to DMCA or some other act

You think non Americans give a flying fuck about a DMCA claim? I would love to be tried, remotely by an american court for breaking DMCA by bypassing DRM for american made software.

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Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps

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Post by mrweasel »

nikanj wrote: post #3

I think part reason HP had trouble solving this case is the fact that most skilled people have decent ethics, and refuse to work for Vito Corleone [ink edition].

My guess is that the issue for support is that it's very much an edge-case, and not something most in support would encounter. The feature is most likely only available do to refurb or transfer inventory across regions.

That being said, the reason it works so poorly might be because there's a lack of continuity within HPs printer line up. For obvious reason I haven't used an HP products in years, but even going back, there seemed to be little lineage within their InkJet printers. The fact that a tools was still available is amazing.

Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps

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Post by t344344 »

Who has so much free time? Easy solution:

- return cartridges since they do not work in "compatible" printer. Consumer laws do not care about small print or region locks

- go to unauthorized shop and have original cartridges refiled. I recycled cartridge like that for several years.

Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps

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Post by usr1106 »

This story tells me I made the right decision: Never ever buy a printer. I can print in the library. Since Covid started I needed to do that twice: The first time they had stopped accepting cash because of the infection risk(!). And I loaded 2 Euros on my library card for 10 pages but obviously did not use all of them. The second time they were surprised that I had money on my library card.

To be fair I have printed a couple of times at the office. But I think I have been below 10 pages a year for at least 10 years, office and library combined.

The only case seems to be having to send documents to an authority abroad. That happens to me, but infrequently enough.

Now people might say, do you trust the library with your personal documents? First I don't remember when I had something seriously sensitive. And then I would say do you trust all that closed source software on your own Windows PC? As Linux user I would have probably not even been able to open the secret windows the article described.

Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps

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Post by realusername »

nikanj wrote: post #4
bombcar wrote: post #2

It has always annoyed me that "region settings" don't just take into account the realities of the situation; they're OBVIOUSLY designed to prevent people in "rich" countries from buying media designated for "poor" countries in a form of market segmentation; but that should mean the "rich media" should just work in all devices. Of course now things like the players are so cheap you can just buy multiple if you want to…

You are giving advice on how to circumvent region coding technology, which is probably illegal due to DMCA or some other act

Depends of your country, there's a lot of countries with interoperability exceptions to copyright, a lot of EU countries will fall in this category and it's totally legal in those countries to publish DRM hacks and publish software which circumvent such protections automatically.
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