HP verhängte eine Geldstrafe von 1,4 Milliarden Rupien wegen „Kartellisierung“ von Tintenpatronen, Toner und PCs | Wiederverkäufer drohten damit, HP-Druckzubehör wegen Fälschungen aufzugeben.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/hp-fined-1-4-billion-rupees-for-cartelization-of-ink-cartridges-toner-pcs/
14 Kommentare
Now, every other country should do the same. The fine is about $US14 million, which probably isn’t a lot to HP, but if 50 other countries do hit them with a similar fine, it will really hurt them.
Low on cyan.
Can’t believe people still buy HP printers. They have been terrible for decades.
1.4 billion rupees sounds dramatic until you convert it. that’s about $16 million. hp makes more than that selling overpriced cyan in a quarter. the fine is a rounding error on the business model it’s punishing
„The price of doing business“
Bro we’re going back to the moon and still don’t have open source printers in wide circulation. We can build 3-d ones juuuuust fine.
You can get an airplane or helicopter mailed to you in a box and put it together but we can’t beat this printer problem. How the hell is that even a thing lol.
Lugi manjioni
I’m tired of having to pay every month to use the printer that I bought. Fuck HP
HP became an awful company gradually .
I’m surprised nobody has made a printer to compete with HP that can use any ink. We used to have printers that used whatever ink you gave them. There was no update to brick it and render the ink you just bought useless. It sucks printers have evolved backwards.
‘Cost of doing business’ size fine
About 48 bucks, that’ll show em
In commercial printing myself. We go through multiple 50-gallon drums of ink daily. That HP does what they do should qualify as price gouging of the highest order.
Bought a refurbished Epson EcoTank printer ~8 years ago and never looked back. Ink refills comes in bottles. No overpriced cartridges. No dystopian subscription model. Much more cost effective and still going strong.