{"id":49991,"date":"2013-08-15T21:21:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T01:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:35:38","slug":"printer-ink-costs-more-than-gasoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/printer-ink-costs-more-than-gasoline\/","title":{"rendered":"Printer Ink Costs More Than Gasoline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-107954\" title=\"Printer Ink Costs More Than Gasoline\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/money_bag_mister.jpg?resize=78%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Printer Ink Costs More Than Gasoline\" width=\"78\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/money_bag_mister.jpg?resize=117%2C150&amp;ssl=1 117w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/money_bag_mister.jpg?resize=59%2C75&amp;ssl=1 59w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/money_bag_mister.jpg?w=314&amp;ssl=1 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 78px) 100vw, 78px\" \/>Anyone who has ever shopped for a replacement<strong> ink cartridge<\/strong> knows they\u2019re not cheap. In fact, printer ink is <strong>more expensive per gallon<\/strong> than gasoline or the blood running through your veins. This <a title=\"The Injustice of Printer Ink Prices\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210517100957\/http:\/\/www.inkjetwilly.com\/blog\/ink-injustice-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infographic<\/a> from <a title=\"Inkjet Willy\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220212140110\/http:\/\/www.inkjetwilly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InkJet Willy<\/a> examines the truth about the high cost of ink cartridges, and reveals their unfortunate impact on the environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210517100957\/http:\/\/www.inkjetwilly.com\/blog\/ink-injustice-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107957\" title=\"Printer Ink Injustice Infographic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_ink_infographic.jpg?resize=400%2C1351&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Printer Ink Injustice Infographic\" width=\"400\" height=\"1351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_ink_infographic.jpg?resize=303%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 303w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_ink_infographic.jpg?resize=22%2C75&amp;ssl=1 22w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_ink_infographic.jpg?resize=44%2C150&amp;ssl=1 44w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_ink_infographic.jpg?resize=768%2C2593&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_ink_infographic.jpg?w=918&amp;ssl=1 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6><em>rb-<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><em>I always try to get my customers to drop Inkjet printers from their fleet. Many times it\u00a0seems like a hopeless battle<\/em>.\u00a0<em><a title=\"Consumers Reports\" href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Consumers Reports<\/a> <a title=\"The high cost of wasted printer ink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/magazine\/2013\/08\/the-high-cost-of-wasted-printer-ink\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> that InkJet ink can cost up to <strong>$75.00 a gallon<\/strong>. They recommend <a title=\"Brother printers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brother-usa.com\/printer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brother printers<\/a> as the most efficient inkjet printers. Sorry <a title=\"HP Printers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do your customers understand that printer ink costs 25x more than a gallon of gas?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/money\/guzzling-printers-can-waste-100-ink-year-6C10504898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guzzling printers can waste $100 of ink a year<\/a> (today.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a>\u00a0about IT, careers and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him at\u00a0LinkedIn,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replacement ink cartridge are not cheap printer ink is more expensive per gallon than gasoline Consumers Reports says ink can cost up to $75 a gallon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[3044,22,168,904,1757,75],"class_list":["post-49991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-printer","tag-3044","tag-hardware","tag-hp","tag-hpq","tag-ink","tag-printer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49991"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124722,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49991\/revisions\/124722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}