HP India introduced the outcomes of its Anti-Counterfeiting and Fraud (ACF) Program, that’s geared toward creating consciousness on the size and severity of the fraudulent printing provides market in India.
Prior to now 12 months, the HP Anti-Counterfeit and Fraud (ACF) crew has been busy. Charged with defending prospects from shopping for low-quality or fraudulent HP merchandise, the HP ACF crew has confiscated greater than 3.5 million fraudulent print merchandise, elements and parts – together with giant numbers of ink and toner cartridges – throughout Europe, Center East and Africa (EMEA), Asia-Pacific (APAC) and the Americas.
Unique HP merchandise are designed to fulfill HP’s strict high quality, reliability and sustainability requirements, based mostly on an extended historical past of innovation, analysis and testing. Counterfeit merchandise will not be solely unlawful however could cause a mess of issues that may end up in efficiency and reliability points. Ought to an HP printer break due to a counterfeit ink or toner cartridge, the harm to the printer is not going to be coated by HP’s restricted guarantee.
“Counterfeiters are more and more turning to the web area to promote their fraudulent wares” mentioned Guillaume Gerardin, world head and basic supervisor of print provides at HP. “In consequence, it’s turning into harder for purchasers to establish counterfeit cartridges on the level of buy. For this reason it’s so necessary that HP continues to work with on-line marketplaces to assist spot and take away listings for counterfeit merchandise, in addition to monitor down the supply of those items.”
HP takes counterfeiting significantly
Between November 2020 and October 2021, HP confiscated 646,000 counterfeit print merchandise throughout EMEA, a further 400,000 throughout the Americas, and an extra 2.5 million throughout the APAC area.
As part of the ACF program, HP India between July 2020 and Sept 2021, seized 498K counterfeit merchandise value over INR 40 Crore (USD 5.24 million).
Unhealthy actors have already made a marked shift to on-line buying and selling of counterfeit provides. This pattern has been additional exacerbated by COVID-19, with HP rising its on-line de-listings by 19% year-over-year. HP works with on-line marketplaces and different on-line third-party organisations to place extra stringent procedures in place on websites to establish infringing merchandise or sellers.
COVID-19 continued to impression HP’s capability to collaborate carefully with legislation enforcement, however identification measures moved on-line the place attainable with digital Buyer Supply Inspections (CDIs) and Channel Associate Safety Audits (CPPAs). 1,191 CPPAs have been performed in FY21, a rise of 11% on FY20. Digital inspections and audits supported the ACF crew in figuring out and delisting over 224,000 illegitimate HP on-line provides globally.
“When distributors, companions, distributors and native legislation enforcement work carefully collectively, we will scale back the situations of pretend print merchandise coming to market, mentioned Glenn Jones, world head of HP’s anti-counterfeiting program. “As pandemic restrictions are lifted and staff resume going into workplace, IT choice makers should stay vigilant and cautious of low-cost workplace merchandise flooding the market that might be counterfeits. The Combating Counterfeit Merchandise Act and Buyer Supply Inspections can assist establish and guarantee fakes cartridges and parts by no means attain the top person.”
HP additionally invests in coaching and educating on anti-counterfeiting issues by on-line occasions, reaching hundreds of thousands of companions, stakeholders, and prospects thus far.
Hallmarks of real HP cartridges
HP has produced greater than 3.9 billion Unique HP ink and toner cartridges that include recycled plastic. At the moment greater than 80% of Unique HP ink cartridges and 100% of Unique HP toner cartridges at the moment are manufactured with recycled content material. By way of HP Planet Companions, the corporate’s return and recycling program, HP has recycled greater than 875 million cartridges because the program started almost 30 years in the past and has expanded it to 68 international locations.
HP Instantaneous Ink and Managed Print Companies present prospects with a protected and hassle-free method of guaranteeing they all the time obtain genuine, high-performance print provides. Right here’s what to search for when differentiating between real HP cartridges and counterfeits:
- Verify the label. Establish the holographic safety label on the field and be sure that as you progress it forwards and backwards, and up and down, the colour modifications, or the “OK” and “√” transfer throughout the label.
- Scan the code. Use the HP SureSupply app or a generic QR code reader to scan the QR code on the cartridge’s safety seal. When you can’t seize QR codes with a smartphone, validate on-line.
- Report counterfeit. Assist us combat counterfeit by reporting it on HP.com
