[takeda]

IMO it's mostly inkjet printers. The whole market was made so they can make tons of money on ink.

To make this work, the printer needs to be cheaper than alternatives (I even had situation when I was buying a computer that came with printer, when I told them I don't want the printer the price was higher!)

Those printers are made as cheap as they can make them, they don't bother about their quality, because it cost to you as much as one or two cartridges.

Also the issues the author of the article has are simply are to force you to buy more ink (the printer doesn't need color cartridges to print black, but still requires them, and once you put color cartridges in and don't use they'll dry out)