I think that it is generally recognised that inkjet manufacturers are
manufacturing printers as a sideline, or to draw in buyers of ink.
They probably don't make money on their sales of the printers, per se,
but make a mint on the ink cartridges. Inkjets have always been more
expensive to use as document printers than lasers. I have not looked
at colour lasers recently, but I wonder how the comparison works now.
Chris
On 16 Feb 2005, at 15:17, jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I bought a dedicated film scanner because the few places that where
> offering non jpeg compressed scans from negatives or slides at a good
> resolution where charging around 15 pounds per roll just for the scan.
> So
> once you factor in postage and packing both ways etc it would not take
> many 36 rolls until the scanner saves me money. I ended up spending 500
> pounds on a minolta scan elite 5400.
>
> I can't see how the epson is going to save me money over a lab. The ink
> and paper are just not economical. I bet they make a fortune on the
> ink.
> Infact the printer in the uk is about 207 pounds and a complete
> cartridge
> set is about 88 and since the printer comes with some free paper
> effectively each time you run out of ink you could think about simply
> buying a new printer!
> - thats crazy!
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