OT: Printing costs, and a surprising find

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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:52:01PM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
> 
> Interesting article.  I wonder how the printer industry will respond
> to this.  Perhaps change their drivers to convert Garamond into some
> similar-but-more-ink-intensive font?  After all, in today's "lose
> money on the printer and make it up in ink profits" business model,
> we can't let the consumers save on ink.  (It was bad enough that the
> courts ruled that using third-party ink can't void the warranty.)

Not sure that's possible.  If you don't use embedded fonts, I thought it
just sent a raster, as opposed to uploading the font to the printer, then
using it.  Not sure it's even feasible to try substituting it out.

> Speaking of which, have you heard about Keurig's plan to have their
> next generation coffee makers not work with "unlicensed" pods?

I did indeed, and I too was immediately struck by the similarities between
the coffee pods and printer toner cartriges.  I think it's absurd, all the
way around.  That'd be like GM getting into gas stations, lacing their gas
with a unique isotope, and causing your car to stop running if you don't
use GM gasoline.

DRM has been extended -way- too far, into contexts where it doesn't belong.

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