For the price of one ink cartridge1 for my printer, I can buy:
- 2.5 gallons of good beer
- 5 gallons of bad beer
- 7 gallons of motor oil
- 7 gallons of premium orange juice
- 15 gallons of “cheap” orange juice (concentrate — yuck)
- 15 gallons of gasoline
- 30 gallons of filtered water (jugs) (which has more taste than
domesticbad2 beers) - 75 gallons of store-filtered water (BYOJ)
- 5,000 gallons of tap water
Also, in non-gallons:
- 2 restaurant dinners
- 3 medium pizzas (+ delivery)
- 4Mb internet connection for one month
- 6 generic prescriptions (on decent insurance)
- 300 television stations for one month
- 1,000 kilowatt/hours of electricity
- 4,000 cubic feet of natural gas
What is this stuff, fucking liquid diamond? Am I supporting the De Beers cartel when I buy ink? What other justification do these fools have other than the obvious make-the-printer-cheap-then-screw-him-later financial strategy they’re pulling?
I need cheap ink. That works. I’ll buy a new printer if I have to, but this is insane.
1 $30 for one each of black and color.
2 Shiner Bock and Sam Adams aren’t so bad.
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It’s not hard to find it cheaper.
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=canon+i250+color+ink&btnG=Search+Froogle&scoring=p
tell me about it. my super-crappy lexmark z23 needs $30 cartridges as well and the print quality is so terrible i can’t use it for anything but papers and letters. i only got it because it came free with my mac. what’s really funny is that i could just buy a bargain-basement printer off of pricewatch.com every time my ink runs out ant i’d actually be saving money.
My HP needs ink that, at retail, is even more expensive.
However, I went to Sam’s Club and bought an ink refill kit – it had the photo colors as well as a HUGE bottle of black. It cost 19.99$US, a little less than half of the cost of one photo cartridge.
I have refilled the black 6 times, the photo 4 times and the standard color at least 3 times. Barely made a dent in the amount of ink used, works great.
Savings so far: (assuming 30$US for one cartridge) (13 × 30) – 20 = 370$US. Plus, about 2 hours time, total. (about an hour the first time to make sure I did it right and 10-15 minutes since, including clean up)
If you go this route, I’d buy some disposable rubber gloves, since you do get the odd drop even if you are careful. Oh, and put tin foil over your table unless you like a nice mosaic. Again, the odd drop will stain about anything it touches but it won’t go through tin foil.
DItch the Lexmarks and the HPs. Ink cartridges for my Canon i350 are $6 apiece, as oppoed to $30 apiece for the Lexmark z52 it replaced.
I guess refilling is the way to go. My printer’s black cartridge costs about 50$ and the color one about 70$. Go figure…
Anyway, with 50$ I can refill both at least three times!
You get 7 gallons of motor oil (or 15 gallons of gas) for the same price as 2.5 gallons good beer? Holy cow, come and visit Germany, we’re currently looking into converting printer ink into gasoline – that would be cheaper…
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