Askville post: Printers

[bobquasit]

"Have an HP printer set to greyscale to conserve the color cartridges. Color cartridges are still being depleted. Why?"Because HP's printer software is designed to lie to you. This is pretty much an industry-wide problem; almost all printer companies sell their printers at or below cost, and make their profits by selling grossly overpriced ink

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[oldwolf]

Kodak also recently came out with a $99 "disposable" printer. Their pitch was why waste $100 on a black toner and $120 on a color toner, when you can just buy a new printer for $99.

It almost makes me want to leave the industry completely.