>In India, 90% of the inkjet printers use refillable ink tanks. The ink is way cheaper than in the US, there are no ink cartridges, print quality is the same, and the printers are roughly the same cost too (in USD).

No they don't.

Indian market sells same printer as they sell in US.

Difference is, indians refill those cartridges, reset chips, or use fake cartridges.

There are only few printers in market which can be filled for real.

Indian cartridges are cheap only because labor in india is cheap. If US had same labor prices.

But quality is just not same. I lived in both US and India.

Being exploited doesn't come from being dumb. If anything, the way I see it, it's no coincidence if people just happen to be kept ignorant in a way that's beneficial to the systems that are also exploiting them.

We do have some printers here that are designed for this use case for what it's worth. Dunno if they are any good. Personally, I have had a Brother color laser for years.