By Victoria Shannon, International Herald Tribune
Published: February 7, 2007
You can buy an entire printer for the price of three or four ink refills. For people who print a lot of photos at home, it feels like punishment for being a fan. For people who might be tempted to custom- print their own, it is a real barrier to even starting.
Mostly, the out-of-kilter pricing is a quirk of how the printer business evolved. It's the razor-and- blade model: The razor comes at an incredible value, but you're stuck buying expensive, proprietary razor blades for as long as you shave. Or, to update the analogy, maybe it's the iPod model, where you're trapped into buying only songs from iTunes.
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