In message , Theo
writes
Andy Burns wrote:
Theo wrote:

Obviously toner is the mainline drug they're pushing, but it's almost worth
buying a second printer to store unopened

Almost?

You do have to account for the space occupied by hoarding.
In a raw economic calculation, the box might be 1m3, and the rental cost of
1m2 of floor area is...?

Obviously it's not quite like that, but it isn't just the sticker price to
consider.

I also suspect the initial price would be higher if Lexmark had to
pay the full cost of recycling back to raw materials (rather than say
setting fire to the thing and calling it 'energy recovery')

in order to have a stash of drums, fusers, etc that you can swap into
the other one for less than the price of official spares.
In the case of the cs317dn ...

I think this is a good example of 'then buy another printer that doesn't do
that'.

Tempered slightly by the 'buy a new printer every month' approach means you
always have the latest model - although the world of printers doesn't move
very fast.

Tempted by the idea of avoiding blocked ink jets, I have followed up a
couple of the printer suggestions.

They seem to lack either a copier function or any facility to scan.

Sadly my family also expect high street print shop quality of the colour
snaps they send me.

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Tim Lamb