| Cleaning, Repair Kits Article | manufacturers including Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Canon and Lexmark have long adopted the razor and blades business model, where they will retail their printers at very low cost or at a loss, in order to acquire new customers who will eventually purchase expensive consumables (such as cartridges, paper and other replacement parts) for their products, where most profits can be made. In recent years, Epson has been accused of manufacturing expensive consumables for their printers. It is also said that the company is forcing customers to purchase replacement ink cartridges before they are truly spent by using 'intelligence chips' to count how many pages have been printed in order to estimate the remaining ink, without actually monitoring the true ink levels.
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