I think that is true for the $69 loss leader printers, but I doubt if
that applies so much to something like a 2200/2100, which is expensive
to begin with and tends to have less everyday use by most buyers to
generate those ink and paper profits.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 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.
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