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The cut-throat business of printer cartridges
Talkback It was very interesting to read your page and I'm glad that I did, I'm some-what the wiser for it, in the past I have always gone for refills cartriges but I have bought myself a new lexmark all in one package can I still get refills for my new...
[October 8, 2005, 19:31]
Generic cartridges leave mark on Lexmark profits
News US printer manufacturer Lexmark said on Tuesday that third-party printer cartridges are impacting its sales figures. The issue of third-party vendors selling printer cartridges is one that affects all printer manufacturers.
[April 27, 2005, 13:25]
HP sues printer cartridge refillers
News HP, much of whose profit comes from printer supplies, has sued two companies that sell refilled ink cartridges, but it stopped short of trying to block the refill business altogether. And on Monday, HP sued RhinoTek in US District Court for the...
[March 29, 2005, 9:20]
HP opens new front in war on refillers
News HP on Thursday accused a US cartridge reseller of refilling used printer cartridges with ink that relies on a formula for an HP-patented ink brand. The cartridges replace a handful of HP printer cartridges, including those numbered 56, 57 and 78...
[October 21, 2005, 9:40]
Konica Minolta Magicolor 2430DL review
Reviews How did Konica Minolta squeeze four toner cartridges and other essentials into a package only 43cm wide by 39.5 deep by 34.1cm high? Part of the secret is its four-pass design: four cartridges snuggle into a spindle that rotates and delivers toner...
[February 8, 2005, 14:55]
Lexmark wins injunction in DMCA case
News Printer maker Lexmark International Group won a preliminary injunction on Thursday in efforts to prevent a company from selling computer chips that allow toner cartridges to be recycled. When installed in compatible Lexmark printers, the chips...
[February 28, 2003, 7:39]
Printer makers back cartridge-test standard
News The standard cites how many cartridges must be tested to determine an average lifetime (nine of them), what constitutes a standard test document (five pages printed with default printer settings) and the kind of machine on which the cartridge must...
[February 9, 2007, 9:11]
Lexmark C530dn review
Reviews The Lexmark C530dn is a behemoth of a printer, as colour lasers tend to be (individual toner cartridges take up a lot of space). Finally, Lexmark has separated the toner cartridges into two units: one piece is simply the toner and the other is the...
[February 28, 2007, 13:27]
Protecting Printers and Recurring Revenue With RFID
White Papers Printer Manufacturers expend time and resources to create printers and toner cartridges that work in concert with one another. End-users both knowingly and unknowingly compromise product reliability and jeopardize recurring revenue and cost...
[November 27, 2009, 23:00]
Nuggets: Alps printer demands enthusiasm
News The 2400 dpi colour printer comes with four ink cartridges, cyan, magenta, yellow and black; Alps' Vphoto print film; Vphoto primer, a ribbon-based ink; and Finish II and EconoBlack, reversible and reusable ink cartridges for black and white...
[August 5, 1999, 11:37]
Lexmark's loss is everyone's gain
Talkback I have a Lexmark printer, everytime (often) I need to buy a new set of ink,i tcosts me over $50 for original cartridges.it's like the third of the price pf the printer. And watch out for the prices of the ink cartridges of the next brand you buy...
[March 8, 2006, 15:22]
Lexmark invokes DMCA in toner suit
News Printer maker Lexmark has found an unusual weapon to thwart rivals from selling replacement toner cartridges: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Lexmark claims that Static Control violated the DMCA by selling its Smartek chips to companies that...
[January 9, 2003, 8:51]
US Copyright Office sides against Lexmark in DMCA case
News Inside those cartridges is a simple software program called the Toner Loading Program designed to let the printer estimate how much toner remains. This system created a problem for consumers who wished to refill their own cartridges, but an...
[October 30, 2003, 8:40]
Great value duplex printer that does the job
Member Review The supplied (2000 sheets @ 5%) cartridges did the job and more. We are only just onto the replacement 5000 sheet cartridges, which offer good value. It cost us much less (with £150 rebate) than getting them done by a print shop, and we ended up...
[December 7, 2004, 8:22]
Lexmark's loss is everyone's gain
Leader We are talking, of course, about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) -- a particularly unpopular piece of US legislation that was drafted to help stop copyright infringement, and which has been used to stop everything from cryptographic...
[October 27, 2004, 12:05]
Gartner: Printer ink costs more than perfume
News He then highlighted printer cartridges for similar reasons. Printers are sold well below cost price, but the companies get their money through the sale of cartridges. In 2002, three Minnesota residents challenged print ink manufacturer HP in court...
[October 12, 2004, 13:15]
Affordable colour laser printers
Talkback When I asked why and was it because the toner cartridges in the printer were not full cartridges the answer was "it should be". Not only are the cartridges expensive they don't last long because it is not used every day and every time before I use...
[September 20, 2005, 15:15]
US Report: Xerox files suit against HP
News Ironically, in October 1997, Hewlett Packard sued Xerox for alleged patent infringement over its LaserJet-compatible printer cartridges. Though Xerox contends that only the inkjet cartridges infringe on its patents, the printers and copiers are...
[May 15, 1998, 9:18]
HP: Dell's printer plans flawed
News Vyomesh Joshi, president of HP's imaging and printing systems group, said on Friday during a Merrill Lynch conference call that Dell faces an uphill challenge if it enters the printer market, including adapting the direct-sales model to sales of...
[July 29, 2002, 11:12]
Epson Stylus D120 review
Reviews Twin high-capacity black ink cartridges deliver better-than-normal yields for printing high-volume black-and-white text documents, while individual cyan, magenta and yellow ink cartridges mean that only the colour that's exhausted needs to be...
[March 18, 2008, 15:11]
