• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    Kodak is to blame for that. Printers used to be expensive and ink cheap but then Kodak flipped the business model and made a ton of sales. Other printer companies were losing out, so they followed. I guess also blame falls on the consumers of that time for choosing that model as well

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      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?

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      10 hours ago

      Looking into the history of Kodak is crazy. They used a 13 month calendar and secretly kept a nuclear reactor in the basement for years.

      People forget that Kodak was a chemical company, not just photography.