Replacement Ink Cartridges and Printer Makers' reaction
Hewlett-Packard in action to avoid less earnings due to lower sales because of third-party manufacturers offering cheaper ink cartridges?
Printer Ink cartridge store-chains apparently are approached by HP to slow down their sales in compatible brand ink cartridges.
The printer company would probably offer them bonuses in return. If this will happen on a large scale then it might get harder for consumers to lower their printing costs due to high priced genuine brand cartridges.
They may then chose more and more for remanufactured ink cartridges or refill their cartridges themself. So the way HP and other printer makers going to act implicates certainly no expectations for permanently lower priced genuine cartridge
More info on Compatible HP Ink Cartridges.
Recently, word is that there's some kind of a campaign started initiated by the most dominating printer makers most likely to stop the decrease of their share in the salesfigures of genuine printer ink cartridges. As printer users chose more and more for the cheaper alternative printer ink / inkjet cartridges offered by manufacturers of store-brand - or also called non-genuine - ink cartridges. So, the printer manufacturers want their market share back or at least that the sitution for them doesn't get worse.
And then there's Kodak, stating that for far too long, people have felt restrained from printing due to the high cost of printer ink.
With their new system - the EasyShare 5000 printers - Kodak thinks that the printer ink market will never be the same and claims that consumers can print the same number of pages at half the cost of other consumer inkjet printers.
As the new Kodak printer models may not be available yet, you can find, following this link, info on Kodak Printer Inkjet Refill Cartridges and more....
A recommended resource for information about ink and toner cartridges, ink refills, cartridge recycling is http://www.printer-ink-cartridges-guide.com