HP says it has seized more than 3.5 million fraudulent print products, parts and components during the past year.
The maker of expensive printer ink said that counterfeiters are increasingly protected by selling their goods online which makes them harder to catch.
HP’s Anti-Counterfeit and Fraud team confiscated 646,000 counterfeit print products across EMEA, an additional 400,000 across the Americas, and a further 2.5 million across the APAC region. While that seems a lot most of the products seem to be ink and toner cartridges.
Guillaume Gerardin, global head and general manager of print supplies at HP said that it was becoming harder for customers to identify counterfeit cartridges at the point of purchase.
“This is why it’s so important that HP continues to work with online marketplaces to help spot and remove listings for counterfeit products, as well as track down the source of these goods”, he said.
