Regionalisation Reset apparently impossible outside of South Africa...

So I am in Zambia, Africa. I bought an Ink Advntage 1515 from a major store and it turns out it is imported from the Middle East and uses HP662 cartridges which are not available in Zambia. Cartridges which I can get here are HP 650. I called South Africa to do a regionalisation reset and they said I needed local cartridges first. So I bought local cartridges and called them back. After half an hour on the phone, the technicians said the reset could not be done over the telephone and I had to take the printer to a service centre. My nearest one is 9 hours drive away. So now I have a printer which won't take the local cartridges, and local cartridges which aren't compatible with my printer. Both of which are useless. And I am down about $150, which, since we are a charity, is a huge amount of money. Can ANYONE help me do a regionalisation reset by email or PM, or give me some advice about how to get this done without more useless phone calls to South Africa? Thanks,

So I am in Zambia, Africa. I bought an Ink Advntage 1515 from a major store and it turns out it is imported from the Middle East and uses HP662 cartridges which are not available in Zambia. Cartridges which I can get here are HP 650. I called South Africa to do a regionalisation reset and they said I needed local cartridges first. So I bought local cartridges and called them back. After half an hour on the phone, the technicians said the reset could not be done over the telephone and I had to take the printer to a service centre. My nearest one is 9 hours drive away. So now I have a printer which won't take the local cartridges, and local cartridges which aren't compatible with my printer. Both of which are useless. And I am down about $150, which, since we are a charity, is a huge amount of money. Can ANYONE help me do a regionalisation reset by email or PM, or give me some advice about how to get this done without more useless phone calls to South Africa? Thanks,

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