Hewlett Packard says that its new "return and recycling" service for printer cartridges is being launched in response to customer demand, and that such recycling is "preferable" to the remanufacture of cartridges. But cartridge remanufacturers argue that such services are the latest step of a strategy to bolster the market for new cartridges.

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