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With the rise of the digital age, more professionals every year are taking the opportunity to work from home. For many, this presents an exciting opportunity to set up a home office that truly caters to their unique wants and needs as a professional. Home offices can also save people money by eliminating long commutes to work and even allow for a healthier work-life balance. There are a lot of things to take into consideration when setting up your new home office. Nearly every supply and piece o …

From buying paper to topping up your ink cartridges, maintaining home or office printers can come with some hefty operating expenses. These have to be taken into account when evaluating the cost-efficiency and sustainability of your printing habits. But alongside just buying your office supplies, there are other less obvious, less overtly measurable cost factors for home and office printing that are all too easy to overlook. We’re talking about energy consumption rates related to unit watt …

Do you know how many recycled ink cartridges it takes to save a turtle? Well, it’s not the easiest question to answer, but the boffins at CartridgesDirect have dived deep into understanding turtle deaths in Australia alongside our collective efforts in cartridge recycling. As the company reached a milestone celebrating 50,000 recycled ink cartridges, we asked, ‘what does this actually mean for the environment?’ Let’s break it down, as we uncover one real world example exp …

Despite the urge to immerse ourselves in digital communication and not look back, businesses still rely on printers to deliver their messages when no other channel can. Think of the promotional material you’ve been making for that upcoming trade show or those annual reports for the next stakeholder meeting. For better or worse, think of those posters strewn about the office reminding everyone to vote on a fancy dress theme for the looming Christmas party. A good printer can make all the d …

HP has been under fire over the past few years for some of its questionable business strategies directly affecting customers and competition, with the latest lawsuit targeting its recent attempts to monopolise ink sales. The company introduced a firmware update to their e-series LaserJet printers in 2022 making the device only compatible with HP-branded replacement ink cartridges without informing customers that third-party ink would disable their printer. Customers simply hit accept on the f …