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Probably the fact their printer is now bricked after attempting to use third party ink …

(Sorry couldn’t resist)

If it’s class action, then you have to not have participated.

If you didn’t, then you can bring your own suit. But in order to bring a suit you’d have to show you’ve been harmed, so you’d have to have been a customer of one of these printers.

Settlements have clauses usually that prevent the same litigation from happening again. Otherwise it’s an infinite money glitch where people keep suing the same company again and again once it’s proven they’re willing to settle.

You can always bring your own case as long as you were not a party to the settlement. Though for it to be successful you’re probably going to have to show you suffered more than the average class member.

For instance you buy a dishwasher that is faulty. There’s a class action settlement, but for you, the dishwasher ruined your apartment and the neighbors downstairs. You can opt out and sue directly even if there’s been a class settlement.