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I know of a large printer company who approached a large media company with a deal that would have had the large media company change the color of the text on t
by layble 9y ago
I know of a large printer company who approached a large media company with a deal that would have had the large media company change the color of the text on their printer friendly pages to something near black but requiring the color cartridge instead of true black. As I recall they were willing to pay seven figures annually. The media company did not take them up on their offer.
The underhandedness/cleverness of the printer companies is not to be underestimated.
- Invictus0 9y agoWow, that's incredible. Even more surprising is that the media company didn't write a story about this.
- Lordsandwhich 9y agoThat is such a sneaky move. It is entirely horrible but you have to admire the thought that went into it.
- psyc 9y agoThere's a subreddit for ideas like this, called Unethical Life Protips.
- shostack 9y agoI might be missing something here...why would the media company consider it even? Was it because the printer company charged the same price for either ink but had better margins on the colored version they wanted them to switch to?
- aptwebapps 9y agoI think the GP was referring to media that would be printed by others, not the media company.
- lobster_johnson 9y agoWouldn't such a move benefit all printer manufacturers?
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoIf you're big enough, it'd still be profitable even with the other manufacturers free-riding on it.
- supernumerary 9y agoTo say nothing of surreptitious tracking dots on all printed materials.