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The arrangement, it said, would be similar that of the printer industry.
"It's a blue-chip company that dominates the printer industry and is a strong player in other areas," he said.
The printer industry works on the "give away the razors, sell a lot of blades" principle, so the printers are relatively inexpensive: The Canon costs about $210 online.
Strategy 4: Get the Last Drop The printer industry wants you to do two things: use lots and lots of ink and, when the time comes to replace it, use its name-brand cartridges for refills.
That makes them not merely faster than comparable laser printers, but 25% cheaper to run as well.Kodak, meanwhile, has just surprised the printer industry with a range of inkjets that undermine the traditional business model.
Rick Aristotle Munarriz, a senior analyst with the Motley Fool, the financial investment Web site, said that for razor companies the revenue model "is pretty much the same mantra as the printer industry," which makes little or no money on printer sales but a much larger profit on replacement ink cartridges.
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Based in Kentucky, Lexmark is a small player in the personal-printer industry compared with HP and Canon.
Ricoh, its rival in the copier-and-printer industry, derives half its sales—and half its operating profits from overseas markets.
Personal printers, industry leaders were told, would be the death kneel of the industry, and soon.
Printing was performed on a MakerBot Replicator Mini + printer (MakerBot Industries, NY), at 500 μ resolution, using an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS, MG Chemicals, BC) filament.
The Replicator 3D printer (Makerbot Industries) was originally developed for printing thermoplastics.
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