Is Kodak out of the printer business?
Yes. They
shed printers when their business started to go downhill. This was a shame, as they had specifically developed a printer which required less ink than its competitors (or the same amount of a less-expensive ink), which was very attractive. Lexmark inkjets are gone now, too (they still do laser, though). That pretty much leaves Canon,
hp, and Epson.
If you are looking for the absolute lowest cost per page, or you don't want your ink to bleed, you will want to investigate laser printers, but they have a very high initial cost and when you
do finally have to refill the toner, you'll pay quite a bit. If you will be printing a lot of photos, avoid
hp since the least expensive
hp inkjets' dithering of colors shows up more than Epson or Canon (this is the trade-off of fewer colors of ink carts).
You can pretty much expect to get shafted either way. Honestly, unless you print more than 30 pages/month, you might be better off just running down to the office place store for your printouts. The cost per print will be higher, but you won't have to deal with buying a printer, throwing away dried-up cartridges, etc.
--Patrick
