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February 8, 2019 · Chris Solberg · News, Industry News

About the HP Instant Ink program

If you’ve been shopping for a new HP printer lately, you might have seen information cards encouraging you to sign up for their Instant Ink program. This program is a subscription service where you pay a flat fee for printing up to a set number of pages, and then pay an overage charge for going […]

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December 2, 2016 · Chris Solberg · News, Industry News

US Supreme Court to hear landmark Printer Cartridge case

Going back quite a few years ago now, Lexmark introduced a toner cartridge collection program they called “Prebate.” Prebate consisted of Lexmark placing a statement on the box that the end-user agreed (simply by purchasing the cartridges) to only use the cartridge one time and then return the cartridge directly to Lexmark. If they instead […]

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September 7, 2016 · Chris Solberg · News, Canon News

Canon Introduces Five New imageCLASS Laser Multifunction Printers

New Models Provide Several Key Features to Promote Productivity for Students, Home Offices and Small Office Users Canon USA announced that it has refreshed its imageCLASS lineup. Building on the quality and reliability of the imageCLASS portfolio, the imageCLASS MF249dw, MF247dw, MF244dw, MF236n and MF232w provide customers with compact MFPs that can help increase flexibility and […]

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November 24, 2014 · Chris Solberg · News, Industry News

Printer Cartridge & Automotive Aftermarket Industries Come Together in Court Case to Defend Free Competition

By Tricia Judge The International Imaging Technology Council (I- ITC) has been busy defending the industry against Lexmark’s Prebate program. Lexmark’s controversial program has been in the court system since 2002.The I-ITC announced that on November 19 they filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the case […]

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