Kodak did this a few years but the big printer companies slashed prices in the printers to next to nothing. Kodaks $200 printer with cheap ink, huge cartridges, and no chips didn’t sell well when Canon would have a similar printer (scan, print, etc) for $49 next to it. Consumers are dumb.
Brother’s eco tank is close… but if they are killing that off in the name of ink selling greed as this meme suggests…
The thing with printers is that they are very hard to get right. Its not like some startup can just make a printer that printer with the same speed and quality as some of the big brands.
With that being said I still would back any startup that tries