It's actually worse than that. I have a laser printer which costed me $36, came with a toner actually printed over 400 pages. The genuine replacement toner cost

It's actually worse than that. I have a laser printer which costed me $36, came with a toner actually printed over 400 pages. The genuine replacement toner costs $110 but can only deliver nominal 1000 pages. But that not quite a big problem as there are generic toners for around $10 and can actually deliver over 1000 pages. But I heard later models were virtually blocked from using generic toners via automatic firmware update as result quality dropped dramatically. The Canon inkjet I had was a completely different story. Genuine cartridges cost over $80, can print no more than 100 pages. Most importantly, after I dump the empty cartridges, the scanner stopped working. We need serious probe into those malicious behaviors.