On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:27:58 +0100
Roger Munford via Hampshire <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Roger,
>replacement are weird. The toner is so expensive in comparison to the
>actual printer. Is this just a marketing ploy or is toner expensive to
>manufacture.
Similar things apply to inkjet printers. That is, the ink is expensive
compared to the price of the printer. Printers are (more or less) sold
at cost (if not a loss). Where printer makers make their money is on the
sale of consumables; ink(1), toner, etc. So much so, that HP even went
to the extent of locking out third party ink cartridges so they couldn't
be used in HP machines. A decision that, thankfully, was reversed.
Short version; It's largely a marketing ploy.
(1) Ink can cost around £990 a litre - over 840 times the price of
petrol (based on my printer's ink costs and local petrol prices).
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