Kodak made a big splash in the business press (last year?) when they announced shipment of a laser printer that actually cost the consumer what it cost to manufacture plus profit. I.e., the cost of an HP laser is *less* than manufacturing cost, but they make their profit on expendables (toner, etc.). I think that I read somewhere (may be hallucinating here, though) that HP even put code into their printers so that it would not run on non-HP cartridges.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 5:50 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Running out of twinax consoles...
Not to mention the price of a ribbon versus that of a toner cartridge
Paul Nelson
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pat Barber
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:05 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Running out of twinax consoles...
Yes.. I'm a reseller for the three largest printer manufactures in the
world,
so I have some knowledge in that area.
Your suggestion to kill a technology makes no sense, unless there is an
excellent business case for doing so.
Laser printers are quite expensive to operate and a basic dot matrix
printer(ie:Lexmark 2481) can operate for years with little more than
a ribbon change. You can't say the same for a laser.
The laser makes sense in certain situations, but to say that all dot
matrix printers should go away is simply silly.
Lukas Beeler wrote:
Are you aware of laser printers that can use multiple paper sources?
You can also use builtin staplers to tackle the forms together. But
the better way is to change the process itself so that you no longer
require multipart forms (e.G. electronic billing).
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