Digital BW, The Print

What that says is that the economics of ink development are so poor as to
not entice real competition.  While I believe that the cloners are
undoubtedly  a huge factor in reducing the economics and hence reducing the
returns to innovation, I doubt this fully describes the situation but rather
suspect that innovation in ink development is still entwined too heavily
with hardware innovation.  What we need is some newcomers on the block with
real innovation in ink design and hardware independent solutions.  With good
cartridge manufacturers the latter can be outsourced.  The former requires
some good old scientific innovation.  Or have the cloners deprived us of
incentives for such chemists to bang their heads together?