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For the last few years I have been happy with my HTC Android phone, until recently I have managed to resist the many offers from our service provider to upgrade to a newer phone as my little ‘droid’ did everything I asked of it plus more. Admittedly it had got a little rough looking recently [...]

I came across an interesting question while browsing and answering a couple of printer related questions on Quora a few days ago. I though I would write this article to expand on the subject a little. A user asked the following about 3D printers:

Why Has The Inkjet Printer Industry Become "Disposable"?
Basically the Quora user is asking [...]

A little while back we did a post about the creativity of printer ads where we looked at a number of interesting and amazingly creative printer ads. After posting the article, one of our contacts at HP let us know about this interesting video that was created by Tom Wrigglesworth & Matt Robinson (who also created [...]

There has been a lot of talk within our industry in the last few weeks; rumours have been floating around about HP’s latest patents and some printer cartridge refilling/remanufacturing companies I have spoken to are actually getting quite concerned about the impact these patents could possibly have on the industry as a whole.
For those who [...]

Have HP invented a magic ink that somehow goes a lot further? Over the last few years the physical size of most ink cartridges has gotten smaller, HP and other manufacturers have taken quite a lot of stick in the industry media and on forums etc. with accusing fingers being pointed at them over this [...]

Recently an empty HP 21B ink cartridge landed on my desk, not literally as cartridges don’t actually fly do they.…well not unless you throw them at someone, which…. when I think about it I could quite easily manage sometimes, actually I could think of 1 or 2 people working here that could do with the [...]

I was browsing printer videos on Vimeo earlier today, as you do, when I came across this very creative, stop motion style video created by Brother to promote Brothers "printers that sprint":

It seems that manufacturers really get creative every so often when it comes to advertising and I remembered a few other awesomely creative printer [...]

Have you ever wanted to paint a meaningful message on the road using a mobile, tweet-fed, hydraulic robot that uses non-toxic, water soluble, paint to print nearly real-time tweets?

I can't say that I have before now, but with the 'One Street Tweet Printer' you could have done! During the week of the G8 Summit back in [...]

3D printing is becoming more and more of a regular topic on this blog and the ability of printing a 3D object from your home is getting closer to a reality every day.
At the moment 3D printing could still get cheaper, at the moment it is almost affordable... If you wanted to get something printed [...]

As of 12pm today the hpinkcartridges twitter competition to win the Kindle Touch has ended. We've had over 1500 entries all together and the one lucky winner is... @juliedee4663, congratulations!

Hopefully we will soon run another great competition so be sure to keep an eye out in the near future.