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HP sued for antitrust violations

By: Mo Bradley

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The Giant printer ink manufacturer HP and the Giant printer ink sales channel Staples, has been sued by someone who has become totally sick and tired of the daily legal highway robbery committed by the large brand name printer makers. This individual who has decided to take on these giants is from Boston and his name is Ranjit Bedi. I wonder what Mr. Bedi was thinking. It is without doubt no small matter to go up against HP and Staples and accuse them of complicity.

Mr. Bedi has alleged in his proclamation that HP has paid Staples millions of dollars so that they would not retail generic toner or ink cartridges. The alleged agreement involves an agreement by Staples to only put on the market brand name cartridges. We all know that brand name cartridges and toner costs considerably more than the generic equivalents. For those of you who do not know it, the cost of producing these brand name items are really exactly the same as generating a generic.

HP and Epson executives have stated in interviews that the basis for the high prices of the brand name printer ink is because of research and development costs. This is really a sad excuse for charging such extremely high prices for their products. Research and development has a long time ago paid for itself and now it is pure profits on a great scale. It is a well-known fact that the HP Imaging Division makes up a very large proportion of HP’s total profit. That is certainly no wonder taking into account that the printers themselves are sold at cost.From then on, the bounty on printer ink just rolls in.The brand name printer manufacturers have been utterly at war with anybody producing a generic product that will work in their printers. The thing is, once the printer is bought it is no longer their printer.

A customer should be able to unreservedly go and acquire a printer cartridge other than a brand name cartridge and use it in the printer. The brand name manufacturers are trying every trick in the book to stop these generic cartridges from working in the printers. One could say they sabotage the printer using embedded microchips to make sure that it will just work with a high-priced printer cartridge sold by them. When we say expensive, it is really an understatement. Ink cartridges can without difficulty be sold at four times the price of a generic cartridge. Remember that the generic cartridge companies also make a quite good profit, so how much are the brand name manufacturers making. They are making huge profits and the money is coming right out of your pocket.

Besides this really unethical practice by the brand name companies, one more lawsuit has been brought about alledging that the brand name companies are embedding software in the printer cartridge to prevent all the ink from being used up. At times there could be 15% or 20% ink still in the cartridge, yet the printer will tell you that you need to substitute the cartridge. It will not work any further until you situate a new cartridge in the printer. This is just another side of the daylight robbery being performed legally daily.

If you want to side step this legal printer ink highway robbery, you will want to make an attempt to attempt generic brand cartridges. Many of the Chinese manufacturers have been able to design micro chips that can outfox the printer sabotage mechanisms. The quandary is to know where to go for such cartridges and still obtain them at a satisfactory price. One online supplier, Peachtree Ink does have many such cartridges and if they do not work for you then they do offer your money back.

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