It comes as no surprise that printer ink is expensive. Printer manufacturers operate on the classic razor-and-blade business model: sell printers at low prices to lock customers into purchasing ...

Hewlett-Packard sues two companies that sell refilled ink cartridges, but it stops short of trying to block the refill business altogether. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Oftentimes, lower-quality draft mode is more than sufficient for most print jobs. This can help increase page yields. Nearly ...

“There’s a perception that ink is one of the most expensive substances in the world,” says Thom Brown, marketing manager at HP. Well, yeah. One might get that feeling walking out of a store having ...

]]> In a business park perched on a hill in northern San Diego, 1,500 Hewlett-Packard employees toil away in labs and cubicles with single-minded devotion. They create more than 700 kinds of ink every ...

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 ...

Everyone knows that buying new, brand-name printer cartridges from the original equipment manufacturer can be expensive. But are third-party alternatives really a better deal? As PCWorld’s Serial ...

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 ...

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Amazon’s No. 1 bestselling printer is the ...