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<p>The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) carried out a market study in 2001 on consumer
IT goods and services, including the printer cartridge market. It noted that consumers
may find it difficult to identify which printer manufacturer had the cheapest price
overall - this included the upfront price of the printer and the price of cartridges
over the life of the machine. The OFT worked with the industry to introduce a labelling
scheme which allowed consumers to identify how many pages they could expect to print
with a cartridge. This allows consumers to consider both the purchase price and the
running costs of the printer.</p><p> </p><p>The Competition and Markets Authority
took over the competition functions of the OFT in 2014.</p><p> </p>
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