Stuart Noble wrote:
Couldn't help noticing how many bubble jet printers there were at the
tip yesterday. I was dumping 3, and it looked like everyone else was
too. Pretty soon we'll have dedicated printer bins alongside the glass
and paper.
Is there any other area of manufacturing where obsolescence is so
blatantly built in? I'm sure these things are programmed to show faults

It's not.
They make very little profit on the printers.
Most of the profit comes out of ink.