If It Prints, I'll Let You Know

Developing and selling ink that is compatible but considerably cheaper than manufacturer-produced ink and cartridges is a practice that printer manufacturers do not necessarily encourage – but blatant counterfeiting of manufacturer products? Now that is an entirely different story.

If we consumers are being warned against using non-OEM ink by printer manufacturers themselves, then we would like to know exactly what is being done to protect our interests against paying good money for counterfeit name brand products. Recently, more than fourteen thousand fake cartridges were seized by authorities in the United Arab Emirates. The bust was a joint effort between the Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) monitoring team and the Sharjah Police Department.

While the fact that these fake items were discovered is laudable, it is at the same time a cause for concern to consumers; how exactly do we spot a fake article from the real deal? What we would normally do is to look for the seal and the trademark, but it seems like even that is no longer an assurance.

The goods were reportedly found in a villa located in the Al Jazat area in the emirate of Sharjah – and they are all labeled with the HP trademark. Among the articles seized in the raid are almost two thousand HP stickers, more than eight hundred thousand empty HP boxes and their associated packaging, and more than fourteen thousand empty cartridges that, if the raid did not happen, would have been filled and sold as the original cartridges that some consumers generally prefer.

These confiscated items will reportedly be destroyed, and the captured perpetrators are reportedly being thoroughly investigated in order to establish their sources for these fake products.

The good news is that monitoring teams in the area have reportedly been instructed to step up the number of campaigns and to take full action against counterfeiters.

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