Cardboard printers? Samsung concepts look to cheaper, sustainable future

They need to start making ink out of cardboard next, if it'll offer us a cheaper future.

Next up: cardboard laptops.

Could double as a homeless person's pillow. But hey, at least he's online!

Mind Control through threat of impending disaster, that's all this crap is. If someone tried to hand me a cardboard printer, I'd hand it back in flames.

Walmart sells cheap HP printers for $20 and the ink for $40. Now, they can sell the cardboard ones for $10....and the ink for $50.

Cardboard boxes outlast the latest printers.

Just ask the whole stack in the attic!

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I always find that a whole new printer with the beginner cartridge is significantly less expensive than replacing the toner cartridge in the one I have (I don't print that much). After a year or so I just replace the whole thing for $50. I don't even consider replacing the drum.

I would be willing to pay a couple of hundred bucks for a printer that would last a good while and had cheap consumables.

I remember the older office printers where the toner powder came in a plastic bottle and you refilled the toner cartridges yourself. Seems that would be a bit cheaper than a proprietary cartridge, but would open the toner market to anyone who could put carbon powder in a jar.

As long as they continue to charge more for replacement ink cartridges than an entire new printer - they don't give a rats petuti about the environment. They would rather sue people who sell cheap ink refills. This is all PR. Nothing to do with the environment. It is also called "Green Washing".

How about more economical and larger capacity ink cartridges that are also environmentally friendlier? Those would cut into profits, so we won't get those (from the OEM makers).

any industrial recycling process can strip a PLASTIC shell from the unit in a fraction of a second... and recycle it! The metal rail and chasis will melt down to recyclable steel and aluminum too... sounds like someone is drinking the SUSTAINABILITY COOLAID again! This is fine for the Birkenstock wearing greenies who don't shave their armpits and don't flush their toilets until the neighbors call the health officials... but not for me!

...and put a 600 watt heater/fuser inside a combustible enclosure? Right.....I'm sure U/L will give it's full approval....

Make the bloody ink affordable and non of this would be necessary.

Sadly, from a bottom-line standpoint, the printer is nothing more than a loss-leading holder for ink cartridges (the real profit center) - so the cheaper they can get it, the better.
Of course, this now opens them up to the same criticism a lot of cars got in the '80's - the thing looks like the box it came in! :)

Can't wait for the Samsung cardboard camera and Galaxy phone...LOLthis is just dumb, it's still a plastic printer inside does Samsung think people are stupid...Oooo wait yes they do people keep on buying their cheap crap so we all must be

Most of the consumer printers are simply hazards to the environment. When they price the ink/toner more than a printer, what do they expect? Seems like making the printer shell with paper will simply encourage people to throw away a functional printer.

Reminds me of disposable cameras being marketed as environmental friendly...

Just great. Yet another product with substandard quality getting even worse. If they really want to save the environment, why not just make it from ultra-thin toilet paper?

really "sustainable" is not printing at all.
( That's what most of the people do )

Reduce the cost of printers? I don't think the cost of printers need to be reduced - the cost of toners should. I bought a color laser printer for less than $99 a while back. When I bought the replacement toner cartridges (4 colors) it cost more than $250. I seriously thought about buying another printer, instead of just toners. Granted, the toners that come with the printer is not "full", but hey, a new printer with "half full" toners for $99 vs. just the toners for $250. You do the math.