On 06/03/2012 04:40 PM, Aydan wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> It's like printers with network cards. A network card costs, what,
>> £0.0016? And yet, a printer without one is £30 or something, but one
>> with it is £150. Presumably because they figure that your average home
>> user doesn't give a fig whether there's a network card, they just want
>> the cheapest one in the shop, but your average business user cannot
>> afford to do without one, and won't think twice about splashing a few
>> hundred pounds for something they actually need...
>
> You do know that a network card for a printer is actually a print server, right?

You do know that a laser printer already has an entire computing 
environment inside it running an embedded PostScript engine, right?

Adding an embedded TCP/IP stack can't be /that/ damned hard.

Also, explain this:



How can the entire printer be /cheaper/ than just the network card?! 
That makes no logical sense!

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