Does it sometimes seem that that the drumbeat of announcements about increases in the price of print consumables never lets up? It’s not just your imagination. In a world brimming over with economic upheavals and geopolitical shocks, price increases are yelps of pain from global supply chains being pummeled by forces they can’t withstand. When pressure on the chains becomes inevitable, so does inflation in the cost of the raw materials that the chains exist to deliver.

With some help from OpenAI, we scoured the web for announcements of consumable price increases that vendors have put in place from the Trump administration’s launch of its “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2, 2025, to the present day. Because of those tariffs, the subsequent announcements would come hard on the heels of bad news printers were already getting about increases in the price of aluminum litho plates, equipment, and other manufacturing essentials.

Here's what we found. It’s not an all-encompassing record, as price increases communicated privately to customers won’t necessarily also be announced in the trade media. But it’s a sobering catalogue of added expense nonetheless.