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Gartner: Printer Ink Costs More Than Perfume
News Printer ink costs more per drop than expensive perfume or alcohol, a Gartner analyst said on Tuesday. Speaking at a business computing conference in London, Stephen Prentice, general vice-president of hardware research for Gartner, estimated that...
[October 12, 2004, 13:15]
Gartner: Printer Ink Costs More Than Perfume
Talkback This talk of ink prices reflecting r&d costs is rubbish . Did you know about the latest model car by RIPOFF MOTORS INK. I dont want 98% of the fancy nonsense that fills up a one gigabite driver for my current printer that cost less than one set set...
[October 30, 2004, 17:47]
Gartner: Printer Ink Costs More Than Perfume
Talkback How can Lexmark justify charging so much for ink even after R & D costs for their printers. A new genuine lexmark colour cartridge for my existing X73 is £28.00, they have on offer a complete new lexmark printer inc cartidges for £29.99.
[December 14, 2004, 11:51]
HP Criticises Printer Ink Rival For DMCA Suit
News Jotwani said that HP makes its inkjet cartridges refillable, although on some models some high-end features, such as ink-level monitoring, are disabled once a cartridge is refilled. Ink is the lifeblood of the industry, with supplies accounting for...
[February 6, 2003, 9:52]
Gartner: Printer Ink Costs More Than Perfume
Talkback Easy solution: Get a bottle of bog standard pen ink, mix it with roughly five per cent hydrogen peroxide solution of the kind you can rinse your mouth with, and spray it into the sponge of the cartridge (Canon IP90, for instance, lets you do this...
[May 10, 2006, 12:12]
HP Criticises Printer Ink Rival For DMCA Suit
Talkback I am a retailer of remanufactured cartridges, and i must say that HP is doing what is best for all. I mean come on, isn't it best when you have a choice. That's what makes our great market so great. Look at the after-market car part industry...
[October 3, 2003, 9:52]
HP Criticises Printer Ink Rival For DMCA Suit
Talkback I have a Canon printer and I have purchased ink from places like Staples and payed for the OEM ink, but I have also purchased ink online. The last ink I bought was from http://www.inkreplacement.com/InkCartridges and I found that it works just as...
[September 22, 2006, 18:37]
Lexmark's Loss Is Everyone's Gain
Leader When printer ink costs more than perfume, something smells wrong. So when Gartner recently did a few simple sums and worked out that, at £1,200 a litre, printer ink costs more than Chanel No.5, it's hardly surprising that a few eyebrows were raised.
[October 27, 2004, 12:05]
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Member Review My requirements were for a printer with seperate ink tanks, A4 borderless printing, low ink costs and good quality images for my photography. The Epson C84 is cheaper, but the cartridges are more expensive and hold less ink.
[December 3, 2003, 15:30]
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. HP holds 9,000 patents related to imaging and printing, 4,000 of them for consumable supplies such...
[October 21, 2005, 9:40]
HP Opens New Front In War On Refillers
Talkback When I buy an ink cartridge it is legally mine to do with as I please. Companies who produce ink that we buy to refill our cartridges have every right to sell the ink to us. Printer companies have no right to tell us what we can or can not do with...
[October 28, 2005, 10:04]
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. On Friday, HP sued InkCycle in US District Court for the western...
[March 29, 2005, 9:20]
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]
Generic Cartridges Leave Mark On Lexmark Profits
News Last month, printer manufacturer HP sued two companies that sell refilled ink cartridges. Customers are increasingly buying lower-priced 'generic' ink cartridges, which has reduced Lexmark's profits and revenue growth, according to the Financial...
[April 27, 2005, 13:25]
HP: Dell's Printer Plans Flawed
News Hewlett-Packard says Dell's printer strategy has a fatal flaw -- consumers prefer to purchase ink refills at traditional retailers rather than by mail. Vyomesh Joshi, president of HP's imaging and printing systems group, said on Friday during a...
[July 29, 2002, 11:12]
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]
Xerox Case Study: East Rock Magnet School
White Papers The solution provided was the Phaser 840 Solid Ink Color Printer, which gave quality, speed and low cost of ownership. The benefits were superior quality, low-cost paper requirement, low-cost, environmentally, friendly color ink sticks, cost-saving...
[February 14, 2005, 23:00]
Printer Makers Rapped Over Refill Restrictions
News But the electroscrap law could have a negative impact on printer makers, which depend heavily on sales of proprietary ink cartridges to subsidise the cost of their printers. A law approved this week by the European Parliament is aiming to make it...
[December 20, 2002, 12:29]
HP Claims Photo Printer Speed Breakthrough
News Instead of the standard ink cartridge set up with one black cartridge and a colour cartridge with three separate colour reservoirs, the new system had one black cartridge and separate yellow, cyan and magenta cartridges, as well as light cyan and...
[July 25, 2005, 14:00]
Printer Makers Back Cartridge-test Standard
News The announcement coincides with Kodak's release of its own inkjet printer line and an assertion that it will offer ink prices at 50 percent of its competitors. Standard ISO/IEC 24711:2006, which still needs industry adoption, establishes how ink...
[February 9, 2007, 9:11]
