No Company May Legally Void Your Printer Warranty
For Using Non-OEM “Brand” Ink or Toner In Your
Printer.
Pitney Bowes must honor their mailstation printer warranty no matter what brand of red ink cartridge or supplies you use with it.
The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Improvement Act
MAGNUSON-MOSS
Warranty Improvement Act
United States Code Annotated
Title 15 Commerce and Trade
Chapter 50 Consumer Product Warranties 15 Section 2302
(c) No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer’s using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade or corporate name; except that the prohibition of this subsection may be waived by the commission if:
- The warrantor satisfies the Commission that the warranted product will function properly only if the article or service so identified is used in connection with the warranted product, and
- The Commission finds that such a waiver is in the public interest.
How This Affects You! Pitney Bowes cannot void the warranty on your Pitney Bowes mailstation printer because you use a compatible cartridge manufactured by a company other than the printer manufacturer (Pitney Bowes). This prohibition includes the use of compatible cartridges, and remanufactured cartridges.
The Sherman-Clayton Antitrust Act
The Supreme Court (IBM vs. The United States) held that IBM could not threaten customers with termination of their data processing equipment leases just because they did not use supplies manufactured by IBM. Such practice constituted a “tying agreement” and was found to be in violation of the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Law.