Trying to convince people to spend $200 + markup on each cartridge to save money on spoilage seems like a challenging proposition, especially when some (such as

Trying to convince people to spend $200 + markup on each cartridge to save money on spoilage seems like a challenging proposition, especially when some (such as myself) would see this as a worse user experience. E-readers such as the Kindle seem to have succeeded at convincing a large consumer segment to make a small capital investment, but only by offering some additional features and reducing incremental costs (i.e. book prices).