HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::“Never own a printer again.”

  • accideath@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The reason for that is, that printers are usually sold via the razor blade principle: gift them the razor, sell them the blades at twice the price. With no overpriced cartridges to substitute the printers they usually make a loss on, they have to increase the price of the printer.

    For A4 paper, the Eco-Tank printers actually aren’t much more expensive than regular printers though.

    Though honestly, if I had to buy a printer, it would be a laser printer for sure. Yes, they are a little more expensive but I print very little and every inkjet I’ve owned has dried up between using them and having to buy new ink cartridges for every print job is wasteful and expensive…