Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: printer purchases Date: 5 Aug 2025 19:29:17 GMT Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <106n49s$5c$1@reader1.panix.com> <106pgsv$207l1$1@dont-email.me> <8af6mlxuk.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <106q3a4$23dsr$4@dont-email.me> <106qbk0$10t1c$1@news1.tnib.de> <68913f12@news.ausics.net> <106s7bo$15des$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tn294QDxgEVgP+dzK2kaygOmwgZ9N1rC8RGL1Ev8Au/ctMEUG3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5ri4ygR/5cYBnU9E+J/vvRookig= sha256:T2v3fjJakXSfQc0BPIFWNoA+9d6IK7wZRBvLD7hyDZA= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70399 On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 03:48:41 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 8/5/25 2:12 AM, Marc Haber wrote: >> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote: >>> The other factor with extra toner use is whether your usage matched >>> the page coverage spec on those "3500 pages". That's usually at 5% >>> page coverage, which is probably significantly lower than your own >>> average page coverage. >> >> Thank you, I am familiar with laser printers since the late 1980ies. >> Most things I print is correspondence and tables with numbers. And I >> hardly printed anything in color, and still the color cartridges >> emptied very quickly. > > They ARE out to get you - $$$ > > The old razor manufacturers had a vision - sell the razor CHEAP ... > and then clean up on years of selling the BLADES :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Brownie It isn't clear who came up with the business model first. Gillette's razor came out a couple of years after the Brownie and was a relatively expensive purchase. The Brownie came preloaded with film good for 6 shots. You sent the whole thing back for processing and a new roll of film. The camera was $1, processing was $0.40, and the film was $0.15. I had the ubiquitous bakelite Brownie as a kid but Somehow got one of the original #2 Brownies from somebody's dusty attic, I forget where. It worked but by then the film was an oddity. I also had the developing kit with a small canister that you poured the chemicals in that removed the need for a darkroom. I don't know if turning a kid loose with a bunch of chemicals would trigger a visit by CPS in today's nanny state.