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A new twist on the “lose money on razors, make money on the blade refills” plan. You won’t believe this zero-inventory plan for selling electricity at an outrageous markup!

May 9, 2022

Finance, Small Business, Technology

coffee pods, ink, inkjet printer ink, printer ink, proprietary electricity, razor blades, sell the razor blades not the handles

Background: Some products, like printers, razors, and coffee machines, rely on a recurring purchase of input materials (ink, razor blades, and coffee, respectively). Frequently, the company that sells the durable part of this system will sell it at cost (or even below!), with the hope of profiting from a hefty markup on the consumables (Figure…
Improve print quality and generate an impressive high-contrast résumé with this amazing mirror-image two-sided printing plan.

Oct 7, 2018

Design, Technology, UI / UX

Big Printer, double-sided printing, ink, mirror, mirror image, mirrored text, printer, printer ink, rãësùméè, réésüméï, resume, two-sided printing

Background: When printing non-color text on paper, you generally want to print the text as dark as possible, for maximum contrast. Proposal: With this new “two-sided mirror printing” idea, text can be printed darker than is normally possible, with this one trick: the printer automatically prints a mirror image of your text on the opposite…