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HP & Staples Collude On $8,000/Gallon Ink?

Posted by kdawson on from the that's-no-razor-blade dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "HP and Staples are facing an anti-trust lawsuit over replacement printer cartridges. According to the lawsuit, HP paid Staples $100 million to refuse to stock competing ink cartridges. HP could make that back in short order when you consider that printer ink can cost $8,000 per gallon and certain printers deceive users to waste as much as 64% of their ink."

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  1. Re:Starter Cartridges still a bigger evil by Bert64 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And they achieve that 10% capacity by having a little inflatable bag inside the cartridge to occupy most of the space, so even if you refill them you won't get much in... You have to burst the bag.

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