Bloomberg, the leading online financial news channel, recently reported on Canon’s legal claim against Ninestar Image International, a China-based duplicate Canon printer toner cartridge manufacturer, as well as a number of US cheap ink cartridges retailers, over the kinds of technology being used in their Canon compatible printer ink cartridges. That major OEM’s (Original Equipment Manufacturers) are unlikely to see their products and technologies being duplicated and take it lying down is perhaps unsurprising but the increasing scale of the OEM-compatible and remanufactured printer cartridges market today should perhaps bring the question of how much of a like-for-like replacement these types of products can offer a little closer to the forefront. …continue reading Are OEM ‘Compatible’ Ink Cartridges As Good As the Real Thing?