A big part of it is likely that you’ve just got a really poor quality printer.
Printer companies often sell printers at a loss in order to encourage people to actually buy them. They make up for that loss by jacking up the price of the ink (which is also why they fight so hard to keep their ink cartridges proprietary and non-refillable).
A side-effect of this is people have been conditioned to expect printers to fall within a certain price range, so whenever they see a decent printer sold at a reasonable price, they scoff at it.
Short version: capitalism. Why make a better printer if they don’t have to?
Longer version: because involving moving parts means things need to be maintained, and that doesn’t happen. Comparatively, most other tech has very few moving parts. Easier to make reliable.
In conclusion: buy a laser printer. Don’t fuck around with imitations. Future you will thank yourself.
Because technology and money
Technology is fiddly when you have to be accurate to within a thousandth of an inch for years and years and years of low maintenance and abuse
Money because the people who sell the printers actualy do not make money off of the printers themselves. They make money off of the ink and maintenance of these printers
It is literally cheeper to buy a printer, use up the ink in an hour. Go back and get it replaced with a new one. Than it is to get more ink for it to work again.
Monopolies suck
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