re: #24 darthstar

I bought a Canon B&W laser printer 20+ years ago during my first marriage. Thing was a tank. 500+ pages per cartridge - $45 cartridge replacement. Have an Ink Jet now and the fuckin’ thing needs $75 in ink (from Costco) every six months even if I don’t use it much.

That goes back to the post I made about two-tier or “razor” marketing. They sell the printer at (or even below) cost, knowing most people won’t throw out the printer when it needs ink. The ink is comparatively cheap to make, but they sell it at a price close to the cost of the printer, netting a huge profit.

Thank King Camp Gillette for inventing that marketing scheme which pervades capitalism now.