HP sued for antitrust violations

The Giant printer ink producer HP and the Giant printer ink sales shop Staples, has been sued by somebody who has become very sick and tired of the day after day legal highway robbery committed by the large brand name printer suppliers. This gentleman who has determined to take on these giants is from Boston and his name is Ranjit Bedi. I wonder what Mr. Bedi was thinking. It is undoubtedly no small matter to go up against HP and Staples and accuse them of collusion.
Mr. Bedi has alleged in his proclamation that HP has paid Staples millions of dollars so that they would not put on the market generic toner or ink cartridges. The alleged complicity involves an agreement by Staples to only retail 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 ultimately exactly the same as making a generic.
HP and Epson executives have declared in interviews that the reason for the high prices of the brand name printer ink is because of research and development costs. This is really a sad justification for charging such appallingly high prices for their products. Research and development has a long time ago paid for itself and now it is pure profits on a massive 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 itself are sold at cost.From then on, the bounty on printer ink just rolls in.The brand name printer manufacturers have been entirely at war with anyone making 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 freely go and obtain 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 foil these generic cartridges from running in the printers. One could say they sabotage the printer using embedded microchips to ensure that it will simply work with a high-priced printer cartridge sold by them. When we say expensive, it is really an understatement. Ink cartridges can definitely be sold at four times the price of a generic cartridge. Bear in mind that the generic cartridge companies also make a moderate 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 extremely unethical practice by the brand name companies, an additional lawsuit has been brought about alledging that the brand name companies are embedding software in the printer cartridge to inhibit 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 exchange the cartridge. It will not work any more until you set a brand new cartridge in the printer. This is just a further 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 try generic brand cartridges. Many of the Chinese manufacturers have managed to set up micro chips that can outfox the printer sabotage mechanisms. The problem is to know where to go for such cartridges and still get them at a acceptable price. One online supplier, Peachtree Ink does have several such cartridges and if they do not work for you then they do refund your money back.

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