Lexmark ripped me off

About a year ago I bought a Lexmark X2650 printer on  a store sale. When it came to replacing my ink cartridge I was in for a shock. Not only are the cartridges the same price as what I paid for the printer, which works out to R350, and thus very expensive, but there appears to be no solution to refilling the old cartridge which have a chip which tells the printer that the cartridge is empty.

As yet no way to reset the chip. I feel like trashing the printer and never buying Lexmark ever again. However I am quite happy with the scanner facility, so now I have a scanner minus the printer.  However, somebody really needs to tell the greedy developers at Lexmark, that not everybody lives on a first world salary, and the Gillette Shower blade model doesn't work if your income is below the median and somewhere in South of the Mississippi Delta.