If you’re buying name-brand ink cartridges, which typically hold a few milliliters of ink, you’re shelling out the equivalent of between $3,000 and $5,000 per gallon. (Suddenly, spending $45 to fill your car’s gas tank doesn’t seem so extravagant, eh?) Just as an idea of how valuable this particular golden goose is, more than 40 percent of HP’s $2.63 billion operating profits from last quarter came from it’s (sic) imaging and printing group alone.
I always cringe when I’m asked to recommend a good printer. Primarily because I haven’t used a desktop inkjet or laser printer for years, but also because I’m rarely convinced that the person asking really needs a printer. The whole printing process is a wasteful, often frivolous pursuit. All printers should be melted down and repurposed into, I dunno, watchbands or something.