One of the advantages of being a larger company in a specific industry is your ability to make specialized products. You see it all the time in any industry. In the sports industry, a number of larger companies can make fitted helmets because they have the financial resources to do so. In the computer industry, places like Dell have the ability to sell a wide range of products because of their financial infrastructure. This is also true in the printing industry with companies like HP that have the financial ability to make a wide range of specialty products available. What is more interesting than that however is the fact that a lot of the specialty products that HP produces vis–vis HP ink and other printing accessories is actually compatible with the wide range of their other printer kit products.
The ink that is manufactured by HP is different depending specifically on what the chemical structure of the ink particle is. An ink particle is not just created from some natural substance anymore; there is a process that goes into manufacturing these particles artificially so that they have certain chemical characteristics that the manufacturing company wants them to...