Fish Chris
Getting Fingers Dirty
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Given only the following two choices;
A) That I buy their printer, and use after market ink and paper, or....
B) That I don't buy their printer at all ???
{in other words, do they not make ANY profit whatsoever from the printer itself ?}
Because that, ladies and gentlemen, are the only choices I am going to give Canon, and / or any other Inkjet printer manufacturers.
It just seems ludicrous to me, to have to spend more on the ink for my printer (maybe a lot more !) than to just find a good, online printing company to do my prints for me. I'm sure there must be some, which do a great job, for very reasonable prices. I haven't looked into this very much.... Yet ! But if these printer companies want to play hard ball, they can just bring it on !
Do any of you believe that if enough of the population decided it was cheaper, and easier to have online, discount printing companies do their prints for them (because they couldn't buy reasonably priced ink for their printers anymore) and then, if sales on both home printers AND ink started to slump because of it, that the printer companies might eventually start to rethink their marketing strategies ?
Sorry for the rant. I'm just pretty put off by the whole Inkjet marketing scene right now :-(
Fish
A) That I buy their printer, and use after market ink and paper, or....
B) That I don't buy their printer at all ???
{in other words, do they not make ANY profit whatsoever from the printer itself ?}
Because that, ladies and gentlemen, are the only choices I am going to give Canon, and / or any other Inkjet printer manufacturers.
It just seems ludicrous to me, to have to spend more on the ink for my printer (maybe a lot more !) than to just find a good, online printing company to do my prints for me. I'm sure there must be some, which do a great job, for very reasonable prices. I haven't looked into this very much.... Yet ! But if these printer companies want to play hard ball, they can just bring it on !
Do any of you believe that if enough of the population decided it was cheaper, and easier to have online, discount printing companies do their prints for them (because they couldn't buy reasonably priced ink for their printers anymore) and then, if sales on both home printers AND ink started to slump because of it, that the printer companies might eventually start to rethink their marketing strategies ?
Sorry for the rant. I'm just pretty put off by the whole Inkjet marketing scene right now :-(
Fish