Friday before the January long weekend, bought a new Canon™ bubble-jet printer for slightly more than a colour printer cartridge cost for my HP™ bubble-jet and whose own cartridges (both colour and black, low use versions) together cost more than a black cartridge but less than a colour cartridge for my old printer. While a triple back of the long
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But it still seems a very wasteful sort of consumerism to me...
We brought my kid sister a printer for her bday, I'm wondering if she'll buy replacement cartridges or the next model up...
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Add in the effects of Moore's law creating asset deflation due to expanding capacities and one ends up with ... printers which cost less than their cartridges.
It is just folk responding to clear incentives.
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There is a graph of the price of various liquids per millilitre, and the result is somewhat surprising, even for the normally sufficiently cynical me.
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Or, to put it another way, they're selling the ability to keep their cheap printer functioning. You may buy the printer, but you only rent its ability to function.
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Why are we not farming them and exporting to the world rather than culling them?
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In answer to your question, because marketing would be difficult. Particularly given years of greenie propaganda in the US about them being endangered. (Barry Cohen, when he was Environment Minister, found fighting that one a particularly annoying burden of office.)
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