The printer in your home is one of the most costly items you could ever own. I know you perhaps paid next to nothing for it but that itty bitty ink cartridge in the printer contains liquid gold normally referred to as printer ink. We all concur that the original brand printer cartridge costs an arm and a leg with the generic brands a lot more reasonable.
An researcher for the New York Times once asked the director of Epson why printer ink costs so much and he rightly pointed out the remarkable properties of printer ink. Did you know that Inkjet droplets are measured in picoliters (A trillionth of a liter). Most inkjet printers use flexible drop size technology. A typical Epson photo inkjet printer fires drops between 2 and 4 picoliters in volume. The difference between 2 and 4 picoliters is equal to the difference between a softball and a ping pong ball! To give some more reference, a 2 picoliter drop of blood holds about 200 red blood cells. An inkjet ink droplet is about 100 microns wide, somewhat larger than the diameter of a human hair. A red blood cell is about 5 microns wide.
So next time your printer prints out an exceptional image on paper, think about this. While moving left and right, the print head projects ink droplets that would hold 200 red blood cells 6000 times per second! These 6000 drops every second hit their mark completely to create bold color and sharp detail to rival a photo lab.
In a arranged email statement, Jamie Gryce, HP's sales director for UK and Ireland, said: "The premium pricing for HP cartridges and inks reflects the investment in R&D (research and design) and the manufacturing processes necessary to achieve this level of quality and innovation. HP invests up to three to four years developing and manufacturing just one new line of ink. HP would encourage customers to consider more than just purchase price when it comes to value for money."
Value for money he said, here is a list of items to match with a gallon of printer ink:
Human Blood with processing fee $1,514./Gal Good value for money-Your life
GHB $2,560.00/gal Party scene drug, man that’s good value for money
Black ink in an ink cartridge $2,700/Gal Print out my brothers baby pictures, Hmm
Mercury $3,433.33/Gal A teeny bit can read your body temperature
Insulin (Humulin L) $9,400 /Gal Diabetics will say its good value for money
Chanel No.5 perfume $25,600.00/Gal Ladies say its very good value for money
LSD $122,880.00/Gal Others say its good value for money
Thailand cobra venom $152,800/Gal For some reason good value for money
Scorpion Venom $38,858,000/Gal You work this one out
For a moment let us deliberate about the value for money of Black printer ink. It really does not have to be such an unpleasant thing. What if we could slash that $2700.00/gallon to a third or less. It would be a lot better value for money, right?
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