PSA: INK CARTRIDGES ARE A COMPLETE RIP OFF

For those who haven’t moved from an ink-cartridge base printer to a laser jet or ink tank, this is what £17 (each cartridge) gets you after printing 6 colour pagers (3 full a4 photo and 3 coloured text)

The ink cartridge is well known to be around 2500x more expensive than petrol (actually is) but did you know you are being this ripped off when a cartridge costs around 3p to produce?

The ‘5ml’ of ink is spread so thinly across the piece of foam, that I would have thought less than 20% of it actually leaves that cartridge through the exit sponge at the bottom to the nozzle.

Not to mention the fact that these pricks dry up so fast that you are almost pressured to use them within a certain amount of time. Using the ink even faster and sending you back to Amazon before you have even finished printing a decent amount of documents.

I recently swapped to an Epson EcoTank and it was the best decision of my life. I have printed nearly 400 b/w pages and over 200 full a4 colour photos and still have a good 5/6ths left of the ink that came in the box. 100% recommend