Like Kodak, Lexmark is exiting the consumer inkjet printer business. Their
plan is to produce ink through 2015. This is probably pretty realistic
planning, while printers can last many years they seem to have an average
service life of 3 to 5 years. I don't know how long Kodak thinks they can
milk the ink cartridge business but I expect it would would be a world of
diminishing returns in fairly short order.
jm
-----Original Message-----
From: David Mann
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 1:56 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: Kodak getting out of inkjet printer business
On Oct 4, 2012, at 4:02 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
I wonder if their genius executive is cutting the money-losing
printers to focus on ink sales, not realising that the ink is
useless without the printers.
Were you joking there? Because that's exactly the plan:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/09/28/kodak-quits-printer-business/1600265/
"The struggling printing and imaging company on Friday said that it
would shift its focus in 2013 on ink sales to printers it has sold,
the most profitable part of that business, and stop selling printers,
where competitive forces narrow margins considerably."
OMG. Yes I was joking, and I hadn't bothered to read the article.
Dave
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