Instead of chasing revenues in printer cartridges they should have been enhancing the customer experience of images and interaction.
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Dell isn't planning to sell HP-compatible printer cartridges--a huge profit center for Hewlett-Packard.
As retailers now have applied extra checks on these items, the bad guys have turned their attention to innocuous stuff like printer cartridges.
The company will continue to use the factory to run a recycling scheme for printer cartridges as well as to make other office technology.
These steps included a ban by several countries on shipments from Yemen and Somalia, a ban on shipments of printer cartridges weighing more than a pound, and even suspension of all inbound flights from Somalia.
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Today tech companies like Sirius, TIVO and HP sell their products on the cheap so that consumers can subscribe to their satellite radio and TV services or be forced to purchase an endless supply of replacement ink jet printer cartridges.
It was AQAP that tried to bring down Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 using a Nigerian recruit who had secreted a hard-to-detect bomb in his underwear, and it was AQAP that smuggled bombs in printer cartridges onto cargo planes bound for the U.S. in October 2010.
Finally, it has partnered with printer maker Lexmark International (nyse: LXK - news - people ), which, if successful, could potentially eat into HP's biggest profit center, printer ink cartridges.
To find out which one offered the best value, we compared prices for a common basket of goods, including printer paper, toner cartridges, toilet paper, garbage bags, file folders, envelopes and pens.
Consumables such as high-margin toner cartridges provide a steady flow of cash on the back of this printer business.
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