HP's not the only one with that market corner; I noticed this with Canon too. A few years ago, I bought my kids a cheapo Canon bubblejet for Christmas -- $59 or some such price. Then I discovered each cartridge (Black = $20, Color = $37) summed to the printer price. That printer is now sitting in my junk pile, and they have a totally different printer today! > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, John Meier wrote: > >> <Snip> > I've heard that it is sometimes cheaper to buy a new HP printer than to > buy the HP cartridges for that printer! Could that be true - sale pricing > and rebates accounted for? I think it might be. If so, that shows you > their business model! > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list