Most people holding a remanufactured ink or toner cartridge in their hands won’t ever come close to knowing all the elements that had to come together correctly in order for them to print properly. But there are at least 10 distinct – and more or less expensive – factors that play a role in the process of pushing empty cartridges from end users’ hands back into print devices again to produce the pages they need.
Charles Brewer of Actionable Intelligence recalls how HP was once a major player in the consumer electronics arena and held great sway with most big-box retailers. It has exited one consumer electronics category after another over the years, though, to focus more on enterprise products and services. Find out more about HP’s real estate in retail venues today and how the OEM is maintaining its relationships in this space.
Tricia Judge, executive director of the Int’l ITC, shares some new developments in the Lexmark case. It appears the OEM may be engaging in a form of entrapment to corral more remanufacturers into its web – a web that has already captured dozens of remanufacturers who bought cores from Greentec International.
Mike Josiah of UniNet presents step-by-step remanufacturing instructions for several cartridges that are all very simple, and with a good majority of them, there is nothing to test. Training is minimal, and in all cases, the time needed to remanufacture them is nominal.
There has been talk of the growing color market for quite some time, but with more and more color printing done in the office, perhaps we are approaching "The Year of Color." How would you describe the color market in your business? Is it the biggest part, a growing part, an important part, a small part or no part at all?
Cast your vote in our latest poll and look for the results both online and in Recharger Magazine’s October issue.
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