Is there a good reason why someone hasn't done a Dollar Shave Club business model for printers + inks? I would think it would decimate the ink racket.
Granted, it may have been tried numerous times and failed due to the hardware dominance the major printer players enjoy (and throwing out an existing printer isn't the same as throwing out a razor from Gillette, so you have to capture transitional customers). And of course hair grows fairly consistently, whereas ink usage is less consistent - but offices can always stock back a couple cartridges if they're not using enough and downgrade their account with the click of a button until they burn through them.
Easier to stock 3 blade types and 3 handles than 500 diff ink types. That only obstacle I see. Also people don't buy ink so regularly I have no idea what intervals I buy ink at
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Is there a good reason why someone hasn't done a Dollar Shave Club business model for printers + inks? I would think it would decimate the ink racket.
Granted, it may have been tried numerous times and failed due to the hardware dominance the major printer players enjoy (and throwing out an existing printer isn't the same as throwing out a razor from Gillette, so you have to capture transitional customers). And of course hair grows fairly consistently, whereas ink usage is less consistent - but offices can always stock back a couple cartridges if they're not using enough and downgrade their account with the click of a button until they burn through them.
Easier to stock 3 blade types and 3 handles than 500 diff ink types. That only obstacle I see. Also people don't buy ink so regularly I have no idea what intervals I buy ink at