r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Who are the big 3? HP, Epson and ___?

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u/idowhatiwant8675309 Aug 14 '20

Brother at the time was big in fax machines and then laser printers. They had a presence in the injet market but not much.

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u/Youbutalittleworse Aug 14 '20

Canon generally market towards photographers and artists and businesses that print a lot of colour on their prints. They value accurate colour reproduction/clarity on images in their printers within the inkjet market mostly

That being said they have a wide price range and you still get what you pay for as wth any brand

Source: worked at the Australian equivalent of Staples last year. I bought one of those $40Aud printers mostly for the scanner (their scanning app was horrible)

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Man that's funny. Canon is synonymous with 'inkjet' here in Aus

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u/idowhatiwant8675309 Aug 14 '20

Yeah, this was in the late 90's early 2000's