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Expensive Printer Ink

// May 25th, 2010 // Technical Know-It-All

Have you ever fallen into the trap where the printer that you bought was such a steal, only to find that when buying replacement cartridges that the cost of the replacements would potentially have bought you a new printer?

Today I came across this article explaining why HP printer inks are expensive and it is a very interesting justification from HP about how ink is expensive to develop and etc.

But seriously, like everything else, technology improves! And as it usually is, you get more for less. You don’t see mobile phones getting bigger with lesser features? You don’t see laptops getting smaller with lesser processing power. And you don’t see hard disks sizes larger and prices increasing exponentially? It is just the way it is with technology. And while I don’t know the exact numbers/dollars involved in developing new laptop, mobile phone or hard disks technology, I’m sure it is not cheap.

So how is that printer ink is still so expensive? I’m sure they sell buckets load of ink every year, so volume is not a good enough excuse either.

So for now, I suppose we shall all stick to writing on paper. Oh wait, do we still use lead pencils?