The Giant printer ink manufacturer HP and the Giant printer ink sales retailer Staples, has been sued by somebody who has become certainly sick and tired of the day after day legal highway robbery committed by the large brand name printer manufacturers. This gentleman 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 definitely 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 trade generic toner or ink cartridges. The alleged collusion involves an arrangement by Staples to only put up for sale brand name cartridges. We all know that brand name cartridges and toner costs tremendously more than the generic equivalents. For those of you who do not know it, the cost of producing these brand name items are all in all exactly the same as providing a generic.
HP and Epson executives have confirmed in interviews that the grounds for the high charges of the brand name printer ink is because of research and development costs. This is really a sad justification for charging such terribly 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 entirely no wonder considering 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 completely at war with anyone manufacturing a generic product that will work in their printers. The thing is, once the printer is sold it is no longer their printer. A purchaser 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 operating in the printers. One could say they sabotage the printer using embedded microchips to guarantee that it will just work with a expensive printer cartridge sold by them. When we say expensive, it is really an understatement. Ink cartridges can undoubtedly be sold at four times the price of a generic cartridge. Take into account that the generic cartridge companies also make a sufficient 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 immoral 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 want to replace the cartridge. It will not work any further until you set a different cartridge in the printer. This is just a further side of the daylight robbery being performed legally day-to-day.
If you want to avoid this legal printer ink highway robbery, you will have to to make an attempt to evaluate generic brand cartridges. Many of the Chinese manufacturers have managed to produce micro chips that can outfox the printer sabotage mechanisms. The difficulty is to know where to go for such cartridges and still find them at a reasonable price. One online supplier, Peachtree Ink does have lots of such cartridges and if they do not work for you then they do hand your money back.
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