ASAAR wrote:
NPR's Marketplace reported shortly after 6:00 PM that Kodak
announced a new line of printers that would potentially change the
printer market. There was no technological breakthrough announced.
Instead, Kodak plans to sell printers for higher prices, and cut the
ink cost at least in half. The report added that it would allow
Kodak's printers to make 4" x 6" prints for 10 cents vs. a typical
15 cent cost using online printing services. I didn't hear any
mention of where the announcement was made or where it was reported.
I'm guessing that it will have been reported in the Wall Street
Journal and the New York Times, but I haven't spotted anything on
the NYT home page, its Technology or Business sections, so it may
have been announced too late to make it into these papers.


Saw it in the local paper today. The interesting aspect is that prices
for the cartridges, $9.99 for black and $14.95 for color. Both inks are
'lifetime' type inks. The printers, however, are somewhat more
expensive, allowing them to make a profit on the printer, and sell the
cartridges for less profit.