From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 23:47:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C21106567A for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:47:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D018FC21 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:47:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDSK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m54NlNYu019312 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:48:32 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1914 In-Reply-To: <20080604060319.235a9a54@scorpio> Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: RE: Duplex printer advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:47:25 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gerard > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:03 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Duplex printer advice > > > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:01:09 +0200 (CEST) > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > isn't all that hard but for some reason the printer manufacturers > > > ship these machines with very low RAM. > > > > the reason is to force you then buy high-priced RAMs for them. > > The market for printers is a very competitive one. Any manufacturer has > to factor in the cost of the base machine, plus addition components, so > as to compute a selling price that will be competitive with his > competition. A manufacturer could easily load up his product will all > the RAM he wanted; however, if he could not sell the product, or at > least a sufficient number of them to turn a profit, then that effort > would be for naught. > > Personally, I have not found the secondary RAM market to be all that > expensive anyway. If there is no need to spit out 24 sheets per minute, > then why waste the resources on it? > Obviously you never participated in a pissing contest when you were a boy... ;-) Ted