Companies lose money on printers so are not incentivised to make them better
Customers don’t see printers as a purchased good to be optimized, but rather an annoying cost to be minimized
Both see the technology as old and obsolete and only still being used because of ignorance and cheapskate government agencies and companies who haven’t gone digital yet, so there is only downward pressure on quality. No luxury models or frontier of development etc.
I don’t know that anyone is actually rewarded for trying to make things better.
There are many perverse incentives in this field.
Companies lose money on printers so are not incentivised to make them better
Customers don’t see printers as a purchased good to be optimized, but rather an annoying cost to be minimized
Both see the technology as old and obsolete and only still being used because of ignorance and cheapskate government agencies and companies who haven’t gone digital yet, so there is only downward pressure on quality. No luxury models or frontier of development etc.
I don’t know that anyone is actually rewarded for trying to make things better.