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Makes sense until people stop buying them for laser printers.

• takeda 11y ago
  It's so infuriating though that laser printers seem like much cheaper alternative. In reality inkjet are cheap, many companies (from top of my head I see BofA) use them to print bills, because it saves them cost. It sucks that prices are so artificially manipulated.
• Grishnakh 11y ago
  There's a problem with that theory: they're simply not going to stop buying them and switch to lasers. We've had this dynamic for at least 15 years now, and people still are buying cheap-o inkjets and getting ripped off on ink cartridges. If people haven't learned after a decade and a half, they're never going to learn. Just look at the other comments on this discussion (including the blog posting that started it all): even on "hacker news", which is full of technologists rather than regular people, tons of people here have fallen for the inkjet scam. If a bunch of nerds don't know any better, than you certainly can't expect the regular public to figure it out.
  • chrischen 11y ago
    People don't really print anymore. If you do print, you're an office or business that runs laser printers.