Digital BW, The Print

It's my understanding that you can't make such a printer for a price 
that most people would be willing to pay.  The "model" that printer 
makers seem to use (at least for consumer level versions) is that the 
printer is sold at or below cost, and profit will be recouped by most 
printer buyers also buying high-profit ink over time.  If a manufacturer 
had to make enough profit on the printer alone to support R&D, 
manufacturing and distributing the selling price would be a multiple of 
the current selling price, and the lower the volume the higher the 
multiple would have to be.  Do you think as many people would buy a C88 
at $200 as now pay $100, just because the inks would be cheaper?  If 
only half as many bought, the price might have to be $250 or $300.  (I'm 
making these numbers up, but the principle holds.)

I don't like dealing with chipped cartridges or the hassles of third 
party inks, either, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to afford two 
dedicated B&W printers (I have C88s) if they were priced to include the 
full profit Epson expects now on the printer plus probable ink sales.

john wrote:
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>
> First company that makes a solid, well built inkjet printer with good 
> heads and no retarded chips to control our lives is going to have a 
> good business. You know, one that you can put any ink or paper in and 
> it won't spit at you.
>



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