HP gets slapped with yet another lawsuit for blocking printers using anything other than its own inky liquid cash cow
You might think that Hewlett-Packard's most important profit generator might be AI servers or cheap laptops, but you'd be wrong. Over half of HP's annual profits last year were entirely down to its print division, with no small thanks to its Dynamic Security printer firmware upgrade that completely blocked all third-party ink cartridges. Cue yet another round of litigation, in the form of a lawsuit aiming for class action status, claiming HP has created a monopoly on printer ink.
