HP Hit With Antitrust Suit Over Alleged Print Cartridge Monopoly

HP Inc. has been hit with an antitrust suit accusing the company of requiring consumers who purchased its printers to use only its branded replacement ink cartridges.

Plaintiff Renee Robinson and other customers who purchased HP printers allege in a proposed class action that the computer maker enforced an illegal tying arrangement—linking the purchase of HP printers to HP-branded ink— that allowed it to inflate cartridge prices, according to a complaint filed last week in US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The case mirrors a similar proposed class action that relies on consumer protection and fraud law ...