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In the computer printer business, everyone knows the big money comes from the sale of ink cartridges.
08/09/07
In the computer printer business, everyone knows the big money comes from the sale of ink cartridges.
In the computer printer business, everyone knows the big money comes from the sale of ink cartridges.
Most of these cartridges are made by printer manufacturers and sell for a substantial premium. Some come from unauthorized sources, sell for substantially less and attract the attention of antipiracy lawyers.
Cryptography Research Inc. (CRI), a San Francisco company, is developing chip technology aimed at helping printer manufacturers protect this primary source of profit. The company’s chips use cryptography designed to make it harder for printers to use off-brand and counterfeit cartridges.
“We’re not saying we can end piracy, but our system is designed to recover from failure,” said Kit Rodgers, CRI’s vice president of business development.
Not all ink-cartridge remanufacturing is illegal–much of it is, in fact, legitimate–but pirated ink-cartridge technology cuts substantially into original manufacturers’ profits.
There are three main ways the $60 billion-a-year worldwide printing industry loses money:
• Used cartridges get refilled and sold as “new"– instead of as remanufactured.
• Cartridges get illegally replicated through reverse engineering.
• Printers get hacked or physically altered to use any type of ink.
Although solid figures on counterfeiting are impossible to determine, it’s estimated to cost the industry at least $3 billion a year, according to the Image Supplies Coalition, a lobbying group formed to fight piracy and cloning in the ink and toner industry.
You can see 95 percent of the (chip’s) grid and you still don’t know how it works.
–Kit Rodgers,
VP of business development,
CRI
Cryptography is a method of encrypting data so that only a specific, private key can unlock, or decrypt, the information. It’s used in everything from credit cards to digital media. CRI plans to create a secure chip that will allow only certain ink cartridges to communicate with certain printers.
Although this concept isn’t new, CRI said its chip will be designed for use in standard fabrication processes, eliminating the need for a special–and more expensive–manufacturing process. CRI also said that the chip will be designed that so large portions of it will have no decipherable structure, a feature that would thwart someone attempting to reverse-engineer the chip by examining it under a microscope to determine how it works.
“You can see 95 percent of the (chip’s) grid and you still don’t know how it works,” Rodgers said. There also are other, secret elements CRI won’t reveal for security and competitive reasons.
Skillful hackers can eventually crack almost any code thrown at them and then exploit it for commercial purposes. Once antipiracy encryption is hacked on a product such as high-definition DVDs, for example, it’s cracked forever and the discs can be copied and played using the hack. CRI takes a different tack with its protection scheme: its chip generates a separate, random code for each ink cartridge, thus requiring a would-be hacker to break every successive cartridge’s code to make use of the cartridge.
Credit: CRI
This is a platform CRI uses for testing
the security and authenticity of chips.
“We want to make sure you can’t repeat the same attack,” said Benjamin Jun, CRI’s vice president of technology. “If (hackers) have to rebreak it over and over, it’s not as good a business model.”
The chip, called CryptoFirewall, is not in use in this industry yet, but it’s been widely deployed in the pay-TV sector, where 25 million set-top boxes have a similar technology from CRI embedded, the company said. CRI will also soon debut a similar copy-protection feature for Blu-ray video discs. The printer technology will be available in early 2008, according to CRI.
Counterfeiting and piracy are all but impossible to eradicate, but CRI hopes to at least minimize the financial damage they cause. Today, there are 123 million desktop inkjet printers and 25.6 million laserjet printers in use in the U.S., according to InfoTrends.
In terms of making and selling hardware, printers themselves are one of the least profitable sectors. Often the manufacturers are willing to sell their printers at a loss with the goal of making money on sales of ink. Hewlett-Packard, the biggest PC maker in the world, actually makes the most profit from its printer business: 46 percent of its total earnings in the most recent fiscal quarter were generated by its Imaging and Printing Group. And ink is a key.
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Arista Computers are distributers of ink cartridges, paper, dvd media and cdr’s as well as ipod accessories and exciting gadgets.
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Ink Cartridges
Arista Computers offer a trusted, reliable and cost effective way of ordering cheap ink cartridges online in the UK. Our mission is to offer quality printer ink cartridges to UK homes and businesses.Our considerable range of printer cartridges includes a vast range of both compatible and OEM HP ink cartridges and Epson inkjet cartridges. We offer an extensive collection of cheap Canon ink cartridges, Dell printer cartridges and affordable Lexmark ink cartridges as well as a broad range of Brother printer cartridges.
Arista Computers also stock an array of cheap inkjet cartridges for other popular brands of printers including Xerox ink cartridges.
The quality of cheap compatible ink cartridges are not always up to the standard of OEM cartridges. However, we’ve spent considerable time and effort in the research and testing of many brands of inkjet printer cartridges and only use what in our opinion are high quality ink cartridges and laser toner cartridges for your printers.
We pride ourselves on offering only the best product, you can rest assured that any cartridge your purchase from Arista Computers will provide high quality prints. In fact we will not sell any cartridge that we would not actually use ourselves either at home or in our business. Don’t forget that any order for our cheap cartridges, paper, dvd media and cdr media is automatically covered by our 30 day no quibble money back guarantee. Furthermore, you won’t have to wait around for your cartridge to arrive because Arista Computers offer fast delivery!
Printing Accessories
Besides our extensive range of cheap ink cartridges and cheap toner cartridges Arista Computers also offer a wide selection of quality and affordable printing accessories including a range of ink cartridge refill kits for HP, Canon, Epson and Lexmark as well as universal inkjet refill kits that will give you the means to refill over 700 different types of ink cartridge. We also supply the amazing Continuous Ink Systems for Epson Printers.If you are printing high quality images then you will need good inkjet photo paper to print onto, which Arista Computers offer at cheap prices. As well as our range of cheap photo paper we also offer a range of DVD & CD label kits allowing you to create stunning disc labels.
- New WII accessories now available at Arista Computers
Due to astonishing demand, Arista Computers have now sourced a wide range of WII accessories, the stock list is being updated daily, but take a look at http://www.aristacomputers.com/wii-accessories-687/ to get an idea of the products that are available from today.
Ink Cartridges
- In the computer printer business, everyone knows the big money comes from the sale of ink cartridges.
In the computer printer business, everyone knows the big money comes from the sale of ink cartridges.Most of these cartridges are made by printer manufacturers and sell for a substantial premium. Some come from unauthorized sources, sell for substantially less and attract the attention of antipiracy lawyers.
Cryptography Research Inc. (CRI), a San Francisco company, is developing chip technology aimed at helping printer manufacturers protect this primary source of profit. The company’s chips use cryptography designed to make it harder for printers to use off-brand and counterfeit cartridges.
“We’re not saying we can end piracy, but our system is designed to recover from failure,” said Kit Rodgers, CRI’s vice president of business development.
Not all ink-cartridge remanufacturing is illegal–much of it is, in fact, legitimate–but pirated ink-cartridge technology cuts substantially into original manufacturers’ profits.
There are three main ways the $60 billion-a-year worldwide printing industry loses money:
• Used cartridges get refilled and sold as “new"– instead of as remanufactured.
• Cartridges get illegally replicated through reverse engineering.
• Printers get hacked or physically altered to use any type of ink.
Although solid figures on counterfeiting are impossible to determine, it’s estimated to cost the industry at least $3 billion a year, according to the Image Supplies Coalition, a lobbying group formed to fight piracy and cloning in the ink and toner industry.
You can see 95 percent of the (chip’s) grid and you still don’t know how it works.
–Kit Rodgers,
VP of business development,
CRI
Cryptography is a method of encrypting data so that only a specific, private key can unlock, or decrypt, the information. It’s used in everything from credit cards to digital media. CRI plans to create a secure chip that will allow only certain ink cartridges to communicate with certain printers.Although this concept isn’t new, CRI said its chip will be designed for use in standard fabrication processes, eliminating the need for a special–and more expensive–manufacturing process. CRI also said that the chip will be designed that so large portions of it will have no decipherable structure, a feature that would thwart someone attempting to reverse-engineer the chip by examining it under a microscope to determine how it works.
“You can see 95 percent of the (chip’s) grid and you still don’t know how it works,” Rodgers said. There also are other, secret elements CRI won’t reveal for security and competitive reasons.
Skillful hackers can eventually crack almost any code thrown at them and then exploit it for commercial purposes. Once antipiracy encryption is hacked on a product such as high-definition DVDs, for example, it’s cracked forever and the discs can be copied and played using the hack. CRI takes a different tack with its protection scheme: its chip generates a separate, random code for each ink cartridge, thus requiring a would-be hacker to break every successive cartridge’s code to make use of the cartridge.
Credit: CRI
This is a platform CRI uses for testing
the security and authenticity of chips.
“We want to make sure you can’t repeat the same attack,” said Benjamin Jun, CRI’s vice president of technology. “If (hackers) have to rebreak it over and over, it’s not as good a business model.”The chip, called CryptoFirewall, is not in use in this industry yet, but it’s been widely deployed in the pay-TV sector, where 25 million set-top boxes have a similar technology from CRI embedded, the company said. CRI will also soon debut a similar copy-protection feature for Blu-ray video discs. The printer technology will be available in early 2008, according to CRI.
Counterfeiting and piracy are all but impossible to eradicate, but CRI hopes to at least minimize the financial damage they cause. Today, there are 123 million desktop inkjet printers and 25.6 million laserjet printers in use in the U.S., according to InfoTrends.
In terms of making and selling hardware, printers themselves are one of the least profitable sectors. Often the manufacturers are willing to sell their printers at a loss with the goal of making money on sales of ink. Hewlett-Packard, the biggest PC maker in the world, actually makes the most profit from its printer business: 46 percent of its total earnings in the most recent fiscal quarter were generated by its Imaging and Printing Group. And ink is a key.
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Japanese researchers have pushed bio-printing to new levels, producing an artificial blood vessel using a specially designed inkjet machine.
The kit, designed by researchers at Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, Tokyo, utilises the same precision, multi-layer technology as traditional inkjet to produce living cells from digital data.The team at Tokyo Medical and Dental University used the bespoke printer to inject a combination of cells into a calcium chloride solution to form the building blocks of artificial veins and capillaries.
However, professor Brian Derby of the University of Manchester’s School of Materials said the findings were likely to be more of an incremental step than a major breakthrough.
He said the Tokyo team was currently doing laboratory-based research, while the “next step is making something sufficiently like a blood vessel that could be transplanted into an animal".
Derby added that clinical trials in humans could be anything from “five to 20 years away.”
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