Kodak did this a few years but the big printer companies slashed prices in the printers to next to nothing. Kodaks $200 printer with cheap ink, huge cartridges, and no chips didn’t sell well when Canon would have a similar printer (scan, print, etc) for $49 next to it. Consumers are dumb.
Brother’s eco tank is close… but if they are killing that off in the name of ink selling greed as this meme suggests…
I had a Kodak printer. The first reload I put in it was off brand and it proceeded to immediately brick itself. Refused to recognize any cartridges even the originals.
Also EcoTank is Epson, super duper recommend. I use to sell printers and I would only sell Brother and Epson.
If you’ve got any questions about them I still have my Epson contact in my phone
The thing with printers is that they are very hard to get right. Its not like some startup can just make a printer that printer with the same speed and quality as some of the big brands.
With that being said I still would back any startup that tries
[Everyone hated that]
But seriously, we should just start a “non shitty printer company” that just makes… non shitty printers
A few have tried…
Kodak did this a few years but the big printer companies slashed prices in the printers to next to nothing. Kodaks $200 printer with cheap ink, huge cartridges, and no chips didn’t sell well when Canon would have a similar printer (scan, print, etc) for $49 next to it. Consumers are dumb.
Brother’s eco tank is close… but if they are killing that off in the name of ink selling greed as this meme suggests…
Hmmm, well actually it looks like it’s been a thing for a while: https://www.therecycler.com/posts/brother-launches-ez-print-subscription-service/
I had a Kodak printer. The first reload I put in it was off brand and it proceeded to immediately brick itself. Refused to recognize any cartridges even the originals.
Also EcoTank is Epson, super duper recommend. I use to sell printers and I would only sell Brother and Epson.
If you’ve got any questions about them I still have my Epson contact in my phone
But then we can’t make all the money. Won’t some one think of the shareholders for once
Damn I forgot about that. Shareholders > Customers
The thing with printers is that they are very hard to get right. Its not like some startup can just make a printer that printer with the same speed and quality as some of the big brands.
With that being said I still would back any startup that tries