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by DSMan195276 4289 days ago
To me it seems like a mixture. It's definitely an important process, but it's pretty easy to abuse as well.
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The problem is in the perverse incentive that the printing producers have to "use" as much ink as possible, and consequently pay for it, which prevents significant progress on the consumption.

Well, progress would be already an excessively optimistic concept. There's no need to imagine conspiracies - one just need to observe how cartridges stop working before being fully depleted, or how ink is sold at ridiculously inflated prices.