[geeks] cheap printers rock

[Eric Dittman]

> >That seems to be the case for most low-cost printers today.  We've
> >arrived at the disposable printer.
> 
> Or they're selling the printer at a loss and making their money
> on the ink & paper.
> 
> I think the factory I work at was once offered a $5,000 printer for
> free, if we promised to buy all the consumables from them. (This was a
> production machine, not an office printer. They expect you to run them
> eight hours a day, non stop.)

I've received that offer.  You have to buy all the color toner
bricks, but get the black free.  I've heard of one guy that
sent in phony numbers and actually got one for home.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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