Orak Listalavostok wrote:
My HP OfficeJet d145 all-in-one printer suddenly reports:
Black ink old. Color ink old.
8 days to expire. 8 days to expire.
Printing will stop. Printing will stop.
Press enter to continue. Press enter to continue.

This is an HP lie.

The ink isn't old. I replaced it just last week. Actually, since a
5-year supply of ink (for me) costs less than 20 bucks in bulk at
costco, I've been re-filling the four HP OJ 145 ink tanks (some call
them cartridges but the jets are separate) successfully since January
of 2003. Once a quarter or so, I refill the ink tanks with a few drops
of ink, always keeping the sponges wet and turning off the Hewlett
Packard paper-counting checks which HP uses as a lousy substitute for
ink level checking.

Questions for printer experts:
Q1: How do I bypass this "8 days to expire" HP ink tank setting?
Q2: Is an HP ink tank really timed to shut down in 18 months?
Q3: Do I just replace the tanks or do I have to replace the jets?

Please help,
Orak Listalavostok

HP isn't lying. The printer cannot use an expired ink cartridge. I
don't know of any software hacks or tools that will let you get around
it.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9220

HP will give their customers all kinds of technical reasons why they
designed their printer this way, but in the end it was a marketing
decision to put this 'feature' in the product. Product feature
decisions are ALWAYS made by marketing.

Welcome to the brave new world of software-controlled obsolence.
Demonstrate your support for this concept with your feet. If you buy
another vendor's product be sure to send your old HP printer with a love
noe back to Carly Fiorina's personal attention.