Funny, I had a Kodak printer for years since they had the cheapest ink by a large margin. HP was always the most expensive.
What year did that flip?
Funny, I had a Kodak printer for years since they had the cheapest ink by a large margin. HP was always the most expensive.
What year did that flip?
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
From the Kodak Wikipedia
Peffse@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s wild!
I had my inkjet from around 2011 to 2015. I think it was a C310 but I can’t find any proof of that. I only know it took the 30B/C cartridges.
They were $25-30 for a bundle on a retailer’s shelf while everything else was closer to $50-70 for a bundle on a retailer’s shelf. There was a 20% yield difference between the two, but that’s no 20% markup! I vaguely recall a 30B double pack that was only $15 total, and that’s what I used to buy once or twice a year. None of that hidden “Cyan mixed in the black to make it blacker” crap that HP did either.
How ironic that Kodak rigged the game to make ink expensive, and then others beat them at it.
Peffse@lemmy.world 6 days ago
wait wait… reading comprehension fail on my part. Both that NBC article and Wikipedia are saying that Kodak went against the grain by selling more expensive printers with cheaper ink.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Shit i think you’re right