For years, printers have been encumbered with digital rights management systems that prevent users from buying third-party ink and toner cartridges. Printer companies have claimed that their chip-enabled cartridges can “enhance the quality and performance” of their equipment, provide the “best consumer experience,” and “protect [the printers] from counterfeit and third-party ink cartridges.”

HP makes some of the best printers on the market today, and a ton of them are on sale right now at discounts of up to $250. You will have to act fast to nab one of these deals, though: This New Year's HP printer sale only lasts until Wednesday, January 2.

Score one for the little guys. In a precedent-setting decision handed down this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a company’s patent rights are forfeited once they sell an item to a consumer under the “first sale” doctrine. This idea was central to Impression Products, Inc. v Lexmark Int’l, Inc. and is a major blow to companies that sell their printers for (relatively) low prices and then recoup any losses on the sale of expensive ink and toner cartridges.

HP silently disabled the ability to use third-party printer ink cartridges in its HP Officejet printer lines.

HP detonates its timebomb: printers stop accepting third party ink en masse

Google has designed a cloud printing app that works with your printer connected either to your wireless network or to your computer via USB. Here's how to start printing now from your Android phone or tablet.

Claiming to be the first 'truly consumer' 3D printer, the Micro 3D printer has raised over $1 million

Printer cartridges are both ridiculously expensive and harmful to the environment, making them terrible on many different levels; but still, not everyone likes to read on a screen. To solve this dilemma, Chinese scientists have developed a new type of ink for your printer – ink that isn’t actually ink at all. It’s water.