HP Printer Cartridges

The Saga Continues Back in November we told you about a flaw in some HP laser-jets that may have allowed their security to be compromised, possibly even turning your friendly printer into a fire hazard! At the tail end of last week HP responded to the situation by releasing a patch to remove the vulnerability. While HP maintains that no-one has complained of falling victim to the exploit,...

Last week I wrote about how researchers at the University of Culombia had found a security flaw in some HP LaserJets that enabled them to completely re-write the operating system for those affected printers. Well since then there’ve been a couple of advancements in the story. Firstly, Professor Salvatore Stolfo has made another statement and gone into more detail about the extent of the...

Researchers at Columbia University have been working with Laserjet printers for a few months and believe they’ve uncovered a large security flaw with potentially huge effects. After talking with government agencies a fortnight ago and contacting HP last week the researchers went public yesterday through MSNBC.com. In a demonstration the Columbia researchers tricked a printer into overheating...

Precision Printing has significantly boosted its digital print capacity with a £1 million investment in two new HP Indigo 7500 devices. The printers, which require six separate cyan, magenta, yellow, black, orange, and violet HP printer ink cartridges, join four existing Indigos at the Barking company, reports Print Week. Adding to one 7500, a 7000 and two 5000 devices, the latest additions...

HP announces Q4 results - which are “Disappointing” After a turbulent period which saw HP dithering over the sale of its PC division and the fire sale of its touchpad competitor to Apples iPad the figures were further hit by the $2.1bn the company paid for restructuring, mainly affecting its webOS business that powered the TouchPad. HP's iPad rival was scrapped in August and the company said...