It’s a well-known secret that inkjet ink is being kept at artificially high prices, which is why many opt to forego ‘genuine’ manufacturer cartridges and get third-party ones instead. Many of these ...

Hewlett-Packard, 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 ...

HP is causing outrage after releasing software updates that stop some of its printers from printing if third-party ink cartridges are detected. As Ars Technica reports, HP's decision to do this was ...

Home printing has become more complicated and expensive than it needs to be. Printer companies make customers constantly refill ink cartridges and even started charging a monthly subscription to print ...

Over the weekend, we reported that Hewlett-Packard had made the unsavory move of essentially bricking scores of third-party ink cartridges that were in use in customers’ printers. HP’s rather brazen ...

Among paper, staples, hole punches, bindings and other accessories -- not to mention the cost of the printers themselves -- printing can cost your business a whole lot of money. In fact, print company ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Last week, it was reported that HP had pushed out a firmware update to some of its printers back in ...

Last week, HP printer users around the world were inconvenienced when their devices stopped printing and threw up an error message, seemingly out of nowhere. Fast ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

123inkt, a Dutch reseller of printer ink cartridges, has accused HP of intentionally sabotaging non-HP ink cartridges via a failure date, pre-programmed in the firmware of some HP laser ink printers.

Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company's controversial practice of bricking printers when users load them with third-party ink. Speaking to CNBC Television, he said, "We have seen ...