Sadly only applies to these high end ones; I got a cheap Epson one and found out after moving it to another country, that the cartridges are indeed vendor+region locked.
EcoTank printers don't use cartridges. You fill the ink tanks with ink bottles. They've come down in price, you can buy an EcoTank printer for ~$229. A couple of other companies have followed Epson in offering these kinds of printers. Sadly Brothers' version requires a proprietary cartridge tank.
Sadly only applies to these high end ones; I got a cheap Epson one and found out after moving it to another country, that the cartridges are indeed vendor+region locked.
EcoTank printers don't use cartridges. You fill the ink tanks with ink bottles. They've come down in price, you can buy an EcoTank printer for ~$229. A couple of other companies have followed Epson in offering these kinds of printers. Sadly Brothers' version requires a proprietary cartridge tank.
Region locked ink?! That's a special kind of stupid.
Amusing story.
Sun used to sell different (large) CRT monitors to northern hemisphere vs southern hemisphere.
Apparently the magnetic field was reversed and the CRT guns would be pre-aligned for the correct part of the world.
(insert northern vs southern hemisphere toilet joke)
They do it for the same reason as anything else: to charge different prices in different parts of the world and still stymie the gray market.
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