THE NEWS IN PRINT

Kodak has found a short path to printer business monopoly by slashing the prices of printer ink cartridges. Kodak 5100 cartridges are available for as low as £5 for black and £7.50 for colour cartridges while the printer itself costs just £75. Kodak, a photography giant is clearly trying to make inroads into the printer business by luring customers with low prices.

Famed columnist, Walter Mossberg, decided to test the Kodak 5300 printer with alongside a HP Photosmart C6180 printer. The Kodak 5300 costs £100 while the competing HP Photosmart C6180 is priced at £150.

Here’s the conclusion: My conclusion was that the Kodak EasyShare 5300 is a pretty good printer, with a good enough combination of quality, speed and functionality to satisfy people attracted by the lower ink costs. In my tests, it was better than the H-P at some things and worse at others. Read the full review.

In response to these cheap ink cartridges, HP has also announced production of cheaper ink cartridges for their future printers. Contrastingly, HP’s lower priced cartridges contain less amount of ink as compared to full fledged volume of Kodak cartridges.

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