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::manufacturer rip-off. Just like the current $50 printer, $5000
::per litre ink racket

There is one calculation the Daily Mail has left out of that article.

They write, 'the HP45, had 42ml of ink and cost ?20. It could print,=20
according to HP?s website, 930 pages. Today, the same company?s=20
best-selling HP300 has just 5ml and sells for ?13. It manages only 200=20
pages'.

They go on to assert that that is poor value for money, except it isn't=20
quite as bad as they say (though i do agree with the premise).

They state that  5ml or ink in a current model cartridge only prints 200=20
pages (I assume this is the standard famed 5% coverage of an A4 page),=20
whereas the older 42ml cartridge could ink 930 pages.

If you normalize this, so that the 5ml cartridge contains 40ml it ought to=
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cover 1600 pages approx for ?7.00 less, making it far better value for=20
money, and to fiddle figures even more, after adjusting for inflation and=20
wage increases (if any) the outcome could alter either way again.

What annoys me most, is that my printer a Ricoh Gel printer wastes most of=
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the ink by cleaning and pressurising the cartridges after long periods of=20
no use.  If there was some way of preventing the delivery system from=20
drying out and clogging up, my ink usage would go down, in fact perversely=
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it would go down quite substantially if I used it more.

Colin


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