Considering that you can get a Brother 435/835 for $100 or less, an Epson Workforce 635 for $65, an HP 6500A for $100, or if you go $50 more, an 8600A... you can have much, much better in the inkjet category and not have a plastic piece of crap that takes a single color cartridge. Fairly certain that Canon's offerings in the same class are better too, even though the ink is a bit more. What you're forgetting when it comes to ink price is ink capacity. Sure it's only $10 for a Kodak black cartridge, but it only has a few hundred pages (at 5% coverage). Lexmark's offering in the same category has 550 pages for $5. The Kodak inkjets are lower quality than basically everything in their class, they don't have separate cartridges for colors, they have low capacity on the ink, and they're flimsy plastic garbage. You're lucky that you haven't had any problems yet - almost every single Kodak we've ever sold came back to us as a damage or return.