On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Richard England wrote:
Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 12:28 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> Because you'd be pissed off at spending $50 for a mere 10 mls of liquid
>>> inside a quite large plastic box that's mostly empty. Wondering, why in
>>> hell's name, can't they use a larger cartridge and really fill it
with
>>> lots of ink.
>>>
>>> Of course *we* know why - maximising profits. They could, quite easily,
>>> make bigger cartridges that hold more ink, and not charge as much.
>>
>> So refill them. It isn't very hard and for HP cartridges its cut my ink
>> costs dramatically.
>
> Alan, I worked in the Chemical Industry as a Field Representative, doing
> lots of technical stuff like titrations, electrical work, A to D
> conversions to control peristaltic computerized pumps, lotsa techie
> hands-on stuff for 26 years and taught others as well.
>
> I tried filling a cartridge once. Paid good money for a kit with all
> kinds little widgets included to fill the cartridge with ink. What a
> friggin' mess! Maybe the instructions needed to be dumbed down a bit,
> but I got more ink on me than I got into the cartridge. <chuckles> I use
> the HP 92 cartridge for black and it just seems to be lighter in weight
> each time I get one, and fewer pages are printed per cartridge. If the
> thieving bastards had to put the fluid oz of product on the label, at
> least I'd know when they decide to reduce the amount of the ink in the
> cartridge and then I could bitch about it. I think I'll just call my
> Congressman and start a "movement", like Arlo Guthrie did! <grins>
Ric
Set this up on a web page and let me know where I can sign your petition and
Call MY congressmen. I think a movement on this is long past due.
So who's in charge of this, FDA, probably not, FTC, don't know. Consumer
Protection?. Maybe that is the problem, no regulatory jurisdiction....
~~R
I'm fur it. +1
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