Every home printer I’ve owned, regardless of the brand, has been difficult to set up in the first place and then will stop working from time to time without an obvious reason until it eventually craps out. Even when consistently using the maintenance functions.
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Because nobody besides offices wants to pay for the quality of a machine that last. Take the original HP DeskJet as an example… it was an indestructible printer of primo quality. And it would cost about $2,700 if bought today. Even if it was only half that much due to reductions in the cost of the electronics, it’s still well beyond what anyone would pay.
There’s only so much printer it’s possible to manufacture for the piddly amount they can charge for ’em. The printer itself is already sold at a steep discount in order to sell you ink. (It might not be sold at a loss, but they ain’t rolling in the margin either.)
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