Not related to the article, but this seems to have posted twice; is this a double post bug? Or did you manually submit it the second time (i.e. first time errored out)

Id wager that they dont put too much money into R&D and just pay one guy to port over the same code from their last last last generation printer to the new one. Over time its become an unrecognizable mess that is just hacked into working and no one ever takes a look under the hood. Their main market is the ink anyways, so making the printer good at what it does is an afterthought