Indeed, manufacturers make much of their money from the cartridges, not the printer itself, which is often sold cheaply.

实际上制造商就是靠墨盒赚钱的，而不是那些通常都卖得很便宜的打印机。

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Kodak, a camera company, contrasts its inkjet printers with unnamed "big printer companies" and refers people to a website to calculate how much money they have lost by owning another brand.

相机公司柯达，将它的喷墨打印机与未指明的“打印机大公司”相对比，指引人们去一个网站，计算他们使用另一个品牌可能损失的钱。

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Apple's business model, however, turns this on its head. Apple makes its money from sales of the iPod, not sales of music; the printer, not the cartridge; the razor, not the blade.

苹果公司的经营模式恰恰与此相反，它靠卖ipod赚钱，而并不是卖数字音乐。

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The Koch brothers are grandsons of a Dutch immigrant who settled in tiny Quanah, Texas and saved up enough money as a printer and publisher to send his son, Fred, to M.

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She is against allowing the ECB to become the lender of last resort, aka printer of money.

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Before long Drumm read a story about Makerbot, a startup based in New York making affordable 3D printing machines, and within months he had saved up enough money to buy his own 3D printer.

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