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Issue #0802/2 - In a highly undesirable move, Lexmark has increased prices in the UK on almost its entire range of supplies products by an average 6.4%. Yet again we see Lexmark increasing supplies prices immediately after reducing them – it was only in November of 2007 that Lexmark reduced supplies pricing in the UK by an average of 4%!

Issue #0737/2 - Most US printer manufacturers are paying lip service to the dramatic weakening of the US Dollar but they are being highly selective in which products are affected most or least.

Issue #0735/1 - When we discard a used single-piece toner cartridge or ink cartridge, do we think about how much waste we are creating or the quantity of the earth’s resources that were consumed in the making of that cartridge or how much energy will be consumed in processing that waste (if it gets processed at all) or the amount of money and waste we could have saved if we had made a wise hardware purchase?

Issue #0735/2 - Xerox offers free ink again for buyers of solid ink printers, representing a perceived saving of up to 56% of the cost of the hardware.

Issue #0734/1 - Offering users printing at half the cost, the new XL cartridges, launched by Hewlett-Packard in May of this year, offer stunning value for money when compared with the standard cartridges that are shipped with the printer. Not however, designed to be exceptionally cost-cutting when compared to competitive printers, the XL cartridges are best suited to higher volume printing environments.