my toner cartridge that's said 100% Depleted for the last 18 months has finally been defeated by the Instructions for Form 1065
HP 30A (CF230A) spec: ~1,600 pages
Pages Printed With This Supply: 1,583
Rank: B
I'm gonna assume this toner cartridge has been in use for about 3 years and the rate of usage has been steady. This means the cartridge is advertised to be able to print 1600 pages (probably "at 5% coverage"), but after about 800 pages, it claimed to be empty. Ignoring for a moment how long the cartridge actually lasted, that's either false representation of the quantity of product sold, fraud through false representation of the quantity of product remaining with the intention to lead the customer to buy more product unnecessarily, or both. Now given that the cartridge lasted for very nearly its nominal page count, it would seem it's primarily the latter, which is likely difficult to prove in court because of the "intention" part. They could just say "oops, we messed up the sensor calibration" and then continue to manufacture toner cartridges that lie to customers with the same "flawed" sensors. Assuming there even are sensors in the thing. Just as likely it simply keeps track of how much toner it has used, with no way of checking the running total against a physical assessment of the toner on hand. In that case, either the cartridge thought it was using about twice as much toner as it really was, or the user @iliana was using about twice as much toner per page than what's considered typical, and the cartridge miraculously had almost double the advertised quantity of toner to begin with. Now that last hypothesis is just absurd.
