11-04-2012, 02:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-04-2012, 02:55 PM by Radio Fixer.)
Actually David you can get a set of cartridges for that printer for £47 (see Ebay item 160668923071) and the seller has a 90,000 + record and near 100% feedback.
Was thinking about this whilst out doing my daily walk. Seems to me that the home user is very well off in the way printers are marketed. They could have all their huge development costs + even greater costs of running all the other depts, factories, distribution etc to keep getting sales + (a dirty word to some) profit by amortizing it into the machine cost. They would probably then cost lets say £500 + and many who just take them for granted wouldnt have the convenience and pleasure (certainly to me) of owning one.
But as you say the money is in the consumables and this is nothing new. EMI made cheap turntables, to plug into radios, back in the late 30's that sold for < £2 (a modest radiogram would have cost you 10 times that) and they claim there are 98 parts in the pickup alone. So they were sold pretty much at cost because they wanted record sales and indeed there was a huge increase so for them it was a winner and not bad for the record buying public, they didnt cost anymore.
So now, if like me, I buy 1 to 2 sets (at most) of original cartriges, + an extra black maybe, a year its a good deal (again its probably X10 spent on the cost of beer and decent wine which puts it in perspective). How many sets (of 4 versus my 6) do you buy? You dont print pics as you go to the 'lab' so it cant be huge. But lets just say its large like 4 sets a year and now you change to buying the 'cheapos' at what £14 a go... You too are very much on a winner as well.
Its what a friend does as he doesnt do computer but sticks the camera mem. card in the front of the printer. He uses 6 Jettec cartridges that he reckons gives him better blacks and less clogs than those from Cartridge World.
Gary
Was thinking about this whilst out doing my daily walk. Seems to me that the home user is very well off in the way printers are marketed. They could have all their huge development costs + even greater costs of running all the other depts, factories, distribution etc to keep getting sales + (a dirty word to some) profit by amortizing it into the machine cost. They would probably then cost lets say £500 + and many who just take them for granted wouldnt have the convenience and pleasure (certainly to me) of owning one.
But as you say the money is in the consumables and this is nothing new. EMI made cheap turntables, to plug into radios, back in the late 30's that sold for < £2 (a modest radiogram would have cost you 10 times that) and they claim there are 98 parts in the pickup alone. So they were sold pretty much at cost because they wanted record sales and indeed there was a huge increase so for them it was a winner and not bad for the record buying public, they didnt cost anymore.
So now, if like me, I buy 1 to 2 sets (at most) of original cartriges, + an extra black maybe, a year its a good deal (again its probably X10 spent on the cost of beer and decent wine which puts it in perspective). How many sets (of 4 versus my 6) do you buy? You dont print pics as you go to the 'lab' so it cant be huge. But lets just say its large like 4 sets a year and now you change to buying the 'cheapos' at what £14 a go... You too are very much on a winner as well.
Its what a friend does as he doesnt do computer but sticks the camera mem. card in the front of the printer. He uses 6 Jettec cartridges that he reckons gives him better blacks and less clogs than those from Cartridge World.
Gary
