The DU Lounge

...and has now spread to other brands (Canon, even Brother) on a seemingly random hit or miss basis.

The brand-specific cartridges are so very expensive that they come close to the cost for a new printer. The point, I believe. End stage capitalism runs on creating unlimited demand for new, basically disposable products.

I have an iPhone-11, which I bought ONLY because my iPhone-6s literally fried itself when updating to whatever the then current iOS was. Overall, the iP-11 takes better pictures (the only clear advance); but, have no *desire* for a newer phone as this one does all I require, and the images the camera takes are not the AI-Processed plastic crap as have seen from current crop of iPs

Buying supposed brand-specific new cartridges from amz, found that many had actually been refilled. If you go brand-specific, suggest buying from the company's website if possible.

My main production printer is a now, quite old, Xerox Phaser color laser for which have used 3rd-Party refills for over a decade without any problem. My daily printer is a Brother, which complains, but does work, with third-party refills—although I know that some models apparently do not.