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Kodak Challenges HP's Printer Sales Model

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the jig-is-up dept.

Radon360 writes "Kodak has decided to attempt to buck the trend set by HP by offering low cost printers and reasonably priced ink cartridges. Three of their new printers start at $149, with ink cartridges costing $9.99 for a black cartridge and $14.99 for a five color cartridge. To counter, HP has announced a release of lower-priced cartridges, though with less ink and they are still more expensive than Kodak's. It will be a matter of time to see whether Kodak can upset the practice of ink cartridge extortion."

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  1. Re:Expensive! by PhysicsPhil · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is it me or does a $15 cartridge sounds expensive. I mean, like you go to a copying a store, and copies are like .03 each. $15 = like 450 pages. One of their ink cartridges can't even print that.

    The $15 cartridge is for colour. It's $10 for b/w, but it's still more than you'll pay at a copy shop. The copy shop will be using toner-based laser printers, which have a cheaper per-page cost to run. If you're planning to print a lot, get a home laser rather than an inkjet.

  2. Going to buy 2 right away by Jason+Straight · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just my way of telling the other printer makers that ink isn't worth $30,000/gal

  3. Ink prices by purduephotog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dye Ink costs about 1 to 15$ per gallon to manufacture. Milled ink (methanol milled nano-particulate pigment ink) is about 3x the cost.

    I used to work for Kodak.

    They can dump better ink at lower prices all over the market. HP does NOT want to get into an ink pricing war- everyone would lose.