MUST-WATCH VIDEO: Ninestar Goes Public in Its War Vs. HP — The Fight for Control of the Multi-Billion Dollar Toner-Supplies Industry.

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There is little doubt that Ninestar made this video specifically to get its side of the story in front of Tonernews.com and explain its ongoing war with HP. The video rolls out a carefully calculated narrative, casting Ninestar as the plucky underdog fighting a corporate titan while painting HP as an aggressive, monopolistic villain trying to lock down the toner cartridge industry. Tonernews.com isn’t buying the script. While Ninestar plays the victim, they conveniently omit the dirty truth about their staggering industrial output: millions of toner and ink units pumped out every single month (most of which are counterfeit). That staggering volume doesn’t even factor in heavy-hitting partners like Printrite, Hubei Dinglong, Aster Graphics, and GPI, whose combined overproduction is actively choking the market in a tidal wave of product glut. And let’s not forget the white-label toner products they quietly churn out for OEMs like Konica Minolta, Ricoh, Sharp and Xerox. Ninestar wants it both ways—crying foul over HP and Canon roadblocks in the U.S. and Europe while quietly vacuuming up massive market share across Asia, South America, and Africa. Ninestar can’t dominate global supply chains while hiding behind an underdog mask, which is the exact reason OEMs like HP are finally drawing a line in the sand.

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September 4, 2026 at 10:09 AM