HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/hp-fined-1-4-billion-rupees-for-cartelization-of-ink-cartridges-toner-pcs/

Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.

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Ledivin@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 29d

That's about $14.5M or €12.7M. HP is estimated to make ~$11B annually (worldwide, no figures specifically for India) from "print supplies," which is probably wider than ink, but 🤷‍♂️

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de · 25 pts · 29d (1 reply)

What, is that like the cost of a dozen of their ink cartridges? That fine needs a lot more zeros.

kalapala@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 29d

The secret sauce of successful business is corruption on the government level that will help you even when you got caught.

SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app · 10 pts · 29d (3 replies)

HP is a dogshit company that makes dogshit products. I have never had a good HP product.

RogueBanana@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 29d (1 reply)

The cheap laser printer we bought long time back, almost a decade ago is surprisingly working well. But I doubt any recent products would come anywhere close while being a lot more expensive.

Edit: The white plastic did turn a bit yellow but it does print. Although it doesn't work that well when adding a lot of sheets at the same time, 2 or 3 is fine. I think it's more of a design issue than degradation.

SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 28d

The last HP printer I had was useless because they made an update that prevented it from using third party ink cartridges. Fuck then entirely.

Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 29d

HPE still fuckin afaik

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 28d

If it was Tata, there'd be no fine