I think they effectively do give them away. Printer company's follow
the Gillette company's or Kodak's old film marketing plan. Gillette gave
away a moderately expensive razor and made their money selling the
refill blades for more than they were worth, Kodak didn't care about
making cameras really, they sold film which every camera needed, one of
their engineers was once said to have remarked that the packaging of a
35mm film cartridge cost more than the film inside.
Sadly in their death throws Kodak tried to sell printers for what they
cost plus a reasonable profit margin and ink for what it cost to make
plus a reasonable profit margin. They apparently failed miserably at
that, people were more willing to buy the almost free printer from the
other manufactures and pay through the nose for inks.
On 7/3/2019 4:23 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:
Am 03.07.19 um 04:56 schrieb P. J. Alling:
It may not be an engineer's fault.
To me, the trouble appears to be that too many technical design
decisions are nowadays made in marketing or controlling departments.
I still insist that if ever there is a feature in which those Epson
printers have really been optimised its their ink consumption. They
could give them away for free and still make a profit.
Ralf
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