Comment by toast0

Who's going to look at a distorted market that's also shrinking and try to compete by offering printers at realistic costs and no lock in.

Home users aren't going to buy that when they could get an inkjet for $50 (damn the costs later), and office users aren't going to buy it unless there's a service network and the lineup scales up to the 4 foot high office monstrosity multi function machines with collating and all that jazz. If they have printers at all.