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Gotcha. I have mixed feelings about that; yes it's nice that you can walk into Best Buy and get a printer for $20, but it only comes with 10 pages worth of ink.
by wlesieutre 8y ago
Gotcha. I have mixed feelings about that; yes it's nice that you can walk into Best Buy and get a printer for $20, but it only comes with 10 pages worth of ink. Makes you wonder what percent of those end up in a dumpster when the owner finds out that a real ink cartridge will cost several times what the printer did.
Maybe printer boxes should be required to list the MSRP and page capacity of compatible ink cartridges on the box so you have some idea of what you're getting into. As is, any printer company that tries to avoid this race to the bottom on up-front cost ends up pricing themselves out of the market because it isn't apparent that the running costs are lower.