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Re:BMW’s New Overspray-Free Paint Works Like an Inkjet Printer by akiselev on Saturday October 02, 2021 @07:32PM (#28733141)
Off the top of my head: tailors embroider the clothing they make for customers and luxury clothing companies like Luis Vuitton engrave the customer's name or a message on products like wallets. IIRC even Apple used to engrave custom messages on some of their products for free.
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Re:BMW’s New Overspray-Free Paint Works Like an Inkjet Printer by sujinge9 on Saturday October 02, 2021 @08:20PM (#28733402)
Custom embroiders/engraves are basically a way to reduce the second hand market as fewer people want to buy a luxury product with someone else's name on it.
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Re:BMW’s New Overspray-Free Paint Works Like an Inkjet Printer by tinus_hn on Saturday October 02, 2021 @08:01PM (#28733305)
Apple still offers free engraving on selected products:

https://www.apple.com/shop/engraving-and-gift-wrap

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Re:BMW’s New Overspray-Free Paint Works Like an Inkjet Printer by SV_BubbleTime on Saturday October 02, 2021 @09:18PM (#28733715)
And this still hurts secondary market sales, which may or may not be Apple’s plan, we’ll never know.
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Re:BMW’s New Overspray-Free Paint Works Like an Inkjet Printer by culturestate on Saturday October 02, 2021 @11:36PM (#28734346)
I would think that if they were really trying to check the secondary market, they’d allow engraving for iPhones. Surely that’s by far the one that cuts most deeply into the bottom line.
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Re:BMW’s New Overspray-Free Paint Works Like an Inkjet Printer by tinus_hn on Sunday October 03, 2021 @05:54AM (#28735859)
That evil Apple with their evil free engraving schemes!
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