Rant number 78
Todays rant is one that has - just this minute popped into my head. Its a simple one, and something that has annoyed me since I had to begin buying things myself.
The costs of bloody printing!
Speaking from an admittedly not terribly informed perspective. I have a reason to believe that ink is not actually expensive stuff. I mean, if you go down to any pound shop - you can probably buy a pack of 20 (maybe more) biro's, which will cover a vast area (and will produce many doodles. I really like doodling, mainly penguins - but sometimes other stuff...)
Why then, does it cost so much to produce ink cartridges - or even get them refilled?
The cheapest start at around £8 (remember, for that you could buy yourself 160 biros (what a lot of doodles of penguins that could provide me with!)) and they carry on into frightening money.
Yes, I am sure there are reasons for it to be expensive, but surely there are also some truly preposterous profits that must be being made for these prices to exist.
There are some printers in fact that cost less than even one of the ink cartridges to run them. How bloody warped is that? It just doesn't make sense.
The whole thing really is a bloody rip-off.
Then there is the fact that you don't even get a full ink cartridge with a printer any more. It seems really rather bloody cheeky to me - particularly when they know that you will have to sell your first born child, just to afford to get a new cartridge.
I have in my house 2 printers (from mine & the wives university days) which we require infrequent usage of. The thing is, another scam of the printer companies is that they are not made to be used infrequently. As such, every time I want to use the bloody printer, I have to clean the heads on the cartridge, wasting yet more precious ink.
The whole thing is a scam! Surely in the modern world there is another option?
Rant over.
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