Ink costs
in General Rants , Monday, July 21, 2003
The Register today notes that a Dutch consumer group has been forced to reverse it's public position on boycotting Epson printers () due to to so-called deceptive chipped ink cartridges. Elsewhere, The Register has an article which claims that inkjet ink is 7 times more expensive than Dom Perignon.
Well so what ? You can't make very good prints with Dom Perignon. I could also compare with the cost of Coca Cola - the point is that it is completely irrelevant.
I have to say I've seen little to zero complaint from serious photographers about the running costs of Epson photo quality printers. Sure they're expensive - but they are much more practical and cheaper than any previous method of printing archival-quality colour photographs.
So it's really not so clear why all these bystanders are making such a fuss...
Posted in category "General Rants" on Monday, July 21, 2003 at 10:36 AM
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from Vinc on Wed, August 06, 2003 - 5:26
Hi David,
well that proves again that the Dutch are famous for complaining about high prices while forgetting that quality matters aswell.
Cheers from Arizona (GR1v in my bagage but it seems that I only cover Business issues these days)
Vinc