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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 […]
Would you buy a radio if the maker said you could only use it on Sundays?
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 […]
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 […]
