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Companies often treat peripheral devices like laser printer cartridges as commodities to be purchased at the lowest price, often by the same person that orders the corporate pencils.HP Canada is sounding a warning bell, however, saying that there's a lot of technology in those cartridges and you get what you pay for.
On a recent media tour of its Dublin Inkjet Manufacturing Operation in Dublin, Ireland, HP business managers made the case why, while the cost of refilled and remanufactured (reman) printer cartridges may make them appear attractive, it's very much a case of buyer beware.
"You really don't get what you're expecting to get when you're buying a reman," said Gary Drysdale, vice-president, sales and marketing, HP Supplies, in the imaging and printing group at...