"Arthur Entlich" <e-printerhelp@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Since HP may well be the most environmentally evolved of all the inkjet
> companies, I don't want to point fingers at them, so I will instead keep my
> comments more generic about inkjet cartridges, although I believe they were
> the "inventors" of the "starter cartridge" which contained 50% or less ink in
> the cartridges that first came with the printer.

I believe starter cartridges were introduced first by Lexmark.

- Bob Headrick