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Ink cartridge test page4/14/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() We didn’t test color inks because that would have introduced too many variables that might skew the results. ![]() We researched both online and brick-and-mortar tech outlets to find printers that are being used now by high numbers of consumers. “Over the life of the printer–and by that I mean three years–you can easily spend $800 for the printer and ink.” “In some cases, we found that the printer could be 1/8 of the total cost of printing,” says Pociask. ![]() Pociask recently coauthored a 50-page study on the ink jet printer and cartridge market. “I personally think that consumers are getting ripped off,” says Steve Pociask, president of the American Consumer Institute, a nonprofit educational and research institute in Washington, D.C. For some perspective, gasoline costs about $3 per gallon (at the moment), while a gallon of Beluga caviar (imagined as a liquid) costs about $18,000–surprisingly, only about four times as expensive as good old printer ink. If you bought a gallon of the stuff over the life of your printer, you’d have paid about $4731 for a liquid that one aftermarket vendor told us was “cheap” to make. An average black-ink cartridge contains 8 milliliters of ink and costs about $10 which translates into a cost of $1.25 per milliliter (or more horrifyingly, $1250 per liter). And that’s a problem, when you consider how expensive the precious fluid is. Judging from these findings, printer owners are probably throwing away a lot of usable ink. Other people, however–both journalists and independent researchers–have reported very different experiences with ink cartridges. ![]()
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