I'm sure everyone knows this already, but I figured since I have no worthwhile recourse with Dell, I'd complain about it on my weblog, and at least make me feel better that I might have disuaded one person from buying a Dell printer...

Anyway, Dell printers (specifically, the AIO 962 in my case) have timebombed ink cartridges. I have heard rumors that other companies do this to, I don't know specifics, but check carefully - its not hard to find out via an internet search. What this means is, if you don't print terribly often, and you have a spare ink cartridge hanging around, the cartridge might expire before you put it into the printer. It will probably still print just fine, but Dell has planted a chip in there to say it won't, and you can't really do anything to convince your printer otherwise.