Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive | So Expensive
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ส.ค. 2019
- Printer ink can sometimes cost more than the printer itself. We talk with a former editor of the Recycler to find out why printer ink is so expensive.
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"Very simple: Greed." How refreshing.
Not only though. I think printing in digital Era is useless, so to speak-- sooner or later everything that is formal - documents etc will be digital, henceforth there is no use in producing toxic chemicals in to the environment.
QRS3C273 Yep, greed. . .on the part of the consumer who will buy the cheapest printer rather than looking at the total cost of ownership. I doubt many would buy a HP 4520 at $ 170 ( $ 120 cost to make + a bit of profit ) with lower cost ink when a printer next to it is $ 60. but has more expensive ink. How about you or David Connett opening up a printer manufacturing company and sell things for.what you would want to pay? Should be a huge money maker given so many consumers want less expensive printing no?
Bob Roberts
there are printers that wont work until you refill ink, even if you arent using that colour
"These days you're getting even less for your money."
Daring today, aren't we?
Yep, and one doesn't require 4 mins to state it.
Screw banning straws, go after these wasteful ink companies.
Randy Mayton lol so true
they cant make money off those civil straws lol
bann straws, but also go after these wasteful ink companies.
I’m the 500th like
Why not ban them at the same time?
I love how in their statement, HP just pushes the burden of the environmental impact onto the consumer and shirks all responsibility.
Also find it funny they mention "reducing plastic waste" yet HP keeps forcing costumers to buy new plastic ink cartridges over and over, and then make them incompatible with newer models
Better way would have been let the users refill the catrigges them selves
What about other cheap printers ?
This backfired so much that my previous companies banned printing unless absolutely necessary, reducing total printing overhead by 85-90% approx. Indian government has reduced the need of document by ekyc and esign.
Yes, have you noticed that banks /companies don't want to print anything anymore? My mortgage company even coerces you to go with e-statements by charging you a fee for paying your bill if you don't.
It's cheaper just to buy a printer with new ink each time your ink runs out. The ridiculousness.
"When my refrigerator broke, I didnt know what to do, I just moved"-Tom Haverford, Parks and Rec.
Isn't this insanity of modern capitalism? :/
💀💀💀
so why doesn’t everybody do that wtf
EbbN Flo Can’t we just print stuff in the library????
They practically give the printers away and then charge you an arm and a leg for the ink 🤔
That's the entire business model. It's been around since Gillette invented it.
install an ink tank system.
True
Haha ya suckers, thats why i dont buy printers just go to any office and pay 10 cents for a printed paper.
It’s like a drug dealer giving you the first one for free. They know you will be a customer for the rest of your life!
It's good that companies like Epson exist. I have their ink printer with external ink containers (really big ones). When the ink level is low I just pour it from the bottle.
Epson ❤
And then you need to replace the chipped waste ink container (at least on some of those models)
Yes! We changed all our printers to Epson with refillable ink tanks. Very cost efficient and easy to refill.
I see. I plan to buy a printer anytime soon, can you list some more tips/ advantages of epson over others?
@@dallolapp356 thank you very much, I'll take note of your points. Im a student and i may just need some not too much printing like a few prints maybe, thats it. But thanks again!!
NO this is NOT true. Our Epson Ecotank 440 printers, after 2Y the heads clogged before we got through just ONE large bottle of ink! I bought a head-cleaning set and it did not work and we had WASTED our $440 on a cheap low-end $120 printer and had plenty of bottles of leftover ink to show for it !! Also realize that there is a head-cleaning nappy in the bottom of ALL Epson printers and so NEVER unplug an Epson printer (we never unplugged ours) as it wakes up every few days to clean its heads. Once that head-cleaning nappy is filled with ink in a year or two ALL Epson printers are programmed to DIE! There is NO escape from this type of Epson printer death!
I've owned and used the same laser printer for fourteen years. I've put exactly three toner cartridges in it in that time and spent $60 each time. Each one prints about 2500 +/- pages, laser printing is much cheaper in the end - less than 3 cents a page.
I had to buy a printer before my first spring semester at college and all the damn top-rated Laser Printers were on backorder. I got stuck having to buy inkjet printer.
Right... and Laser printers don't have less printer quality.
@imacmadman . . . Say! You saved me the time to put those same words as what you wrote about laser printers. I had the same results myself.
From what I recall, the color laser printer I got was around $300. The toner carts lasted for years, as opposed to ink carts that can dry out in months.
Print quality in color is very good; I'd say better than what I've seen with ink printers.
@@gczobel Yeah! That was a strange comment in the video about color laser printers having less quality. The one I have displays very good results.
New inkt printers have inkttanks (ecotank) that can print over 2000 with one tank (right now I printed about 1000 pages and consumed about 40% of the tanks black ink and 12% of the other collors. 1 refill for 1 color costs 13€ I think. I needed cheap printing for school so I got this ecotank printer by epson.
that explains why the schools almost never print in color
Trueee
But they print colored paper so...
i dont think thats ink, thats construction paper
Schools usually have commercial laser printers . Color cost per copy can cost 7-14 times more than a black document.
I don’t why but when u print a black and white document it still uses other colors.
I absolutely love this lobbyist. He is brutally honest, and it’s honestly refreshing.
Then you will like Dan Peña.
Absolutely correct
Copied
Picasso of "Copy and paste" here...
Hell ya
People cant have plastic bags or straws, but companies can wrap 3ml of ink in 10 pounds of plastic and sell that over and over to the same people lol. And why is all the food still packaged in plastic? Are we really that dumb?
But...money!
@@danielharvison7510 Butt money, and its our ass.
Plastic is easy for food storage. You can't really get a good alternative for cling wrap. Or phone cases, or toys, or containers, without paying a much larger sum of money. That's the issue with trying to go plastic-free.
Some plastic things are replaceable, some aren't so easily done. And some can't afford it, unless there's cheaper alternatives, but currently those are rare.
yes
Contemporary environmentalist movements are all scams.
My printer has been out of ink for years now. I'm glad almost everything is online nowadays-- I haven't had to print something out to turn it in for a long time. Hopefully the transition to online documents will help get rid of the inflated ink prices since less and less people are needing ink.
If it cost more than human blood than why don’t I just use my blood
WuzNab r/cursedcomments
WuzNab you forgot “use”
You can just your blood, nobody is stopping you
It's weird how 'use' isn't there, but we still somehow know it's supposed to be there.... hmm
Its so tempting trying to figure out what you're actually meaning to say. Use your blood? Sell your blood?
Damn
Imagine if a company sold a decent priced printer with resonably priced cartidges
It’d be game over for everyone else
@Nubnewb Epson is the worst of the lot. First they make the printheads non-user replaceable (it means the bin when they fail or clog), then they
spent MILLIONS in R&D to develop nasty non-refillable cartridges with chips designed to lock out competitors and cause trouble, then because printheads are built-in they devised the wonderful vacuum "cleaning" system that sucks out the gold-priced ink and WASTES it in a pad. When the printer *thinks* that the pad is full, it jams up telling you it needs servicing. It means binning the printer if you cannot source the Adjustment Program and DIY. This is EPSON! You're welcome!
@@doggger He's probably one of the paid reps of HP or Cannon, scouring the internet for comments like this just to shut them down..
@@MasterChickenYT Same here, got an ecotank that I would've used a ton if it wasn't for the pandemic canceling school. We even got refills from the original box and it works flawlessly.
I bought 3 epsons then we decided to buy a brother printer. I went immediately back to epson
@@Gavichap wow. Thanks for the info.
Also recently Cannon was sued for completely disabling all functions of their printers when you run out of ink in one or more cartridges. So if your printer has a scanner that might possibly have faxing capabilities you cannot use those functions if you run out of ink even though those functions don’t even require ink to function.
did canon lose?
@@Vichu.
Not sure currently! :)
That silly😂
I had a coworker who told me she'd throw away her printers every year and buy a new one because it was cheaper than buying the ink. This is ridiculous and needs to be changed
She is as ridiculous as printers manufacturers.... 🙄 This can easily change...
@@deltafox52 They're passing on the ridiculousness to the consumer.
This is what I used to do as well. It annoyed me because it was so stupid, but it was significantly cheaper. Then printer companies switched to "starter" cartridges in new printers that meant you effectively had to buy a printer _and_ ink upfront, so it was no longer worth it.
Which is an incredibly dumb thing to do now as most printers are now sold with “setup” or “starter” cartridges that are deliberately hobbled to have minimal ink so you need to buy cartridges really quickly.
Far better to buy a more expensive printer with lower cost consumables but most consumers don’t do the research.
Why does printer ink cost so much? Greed. There, just saved you 4 minutes.
*spoiler alert*
@jay laser printers my friend. Problem solved
Stfu I watched the whole video cuz it's good
More like 1:15
Some of us don't go by the Trump / Xi (Chinese) docturine of read a title then you know all, no need to read too much into it. Simple minds = Easier to control. Others, however, prefer to know the reasoning why. I'm glad slow minds such as yourself aren't making these videos.
The budget for this video: 12.5 million. Money allocated to ink used in the video: $12,499,876.34.
Costs about $20 to make this low quality video
@@CorporateShill How is the video low quality?
@@CorporateShill Talent fee and editing cost is already more than $500 dumb ass
Bigot Detector - Also for everybody pay and everything.
videos of this caliber are worth in the thousands
I am appalled that they can remotely deactivate a cartridge of ink before I've finished using the entire well of ink! That means that they aren't even letting me use all the ink that I bought in the first place! As consumers, we assume the company is ethically allowing us full access to a product that we fully own! I'd argue that these companies are being unethical by remotely deactivating the cartridge (regardless of a subscription or any claims on the number of pages the ink can cover).
More and more "products" are moving to a you-don't-actually-own-it model. Most things these days are subscription based rather than purchased outright, especially things like software. Even physical items "reserve rights."
@@quillmaurer6563 Yes, this is part of the WEF agenda, "You will Own NOTHING and Be Happy!" Seems suspiciously like theft to me.😵
@quillmaurer6563 that's why we all pirate Adobe
But we can't pirate ink
@@furr_63 That is why you buy third party ink cartridges with hacked / recycled firmware chips that cost 1/3 the price of official branded ink. Or buy the printers with ink tanks instead of using cartridges.
That only happens if you're "subscribed" to their ink service, which is a scam, just like inkjet printers are. Just buy a laser printer and be done with it. If you don't print very often, the toner won't dry out so you can stop worrying about having to replace the toner if you print something in 8 months.
At this point in my life where I haven't even started working for my own living and everything is already expensive just makes me think how inflation will be in 5 -10 years ... like living is so freaking expensive I don't even need to know the reason why they are expensive cuz it all comes down to greed
my ink is so expensive that we haven’t used our printer for 3 years
And now your ink has turned into goo or dried, won't get past the heads.
@@Manu-Official interestingly, my third party cannon black ink cartridge that was 3 years old worked perfectly, where as the original could not after the same time. Both of them were sealed and unused prior.
Same
same
How relatable is this A WHOLE LOT
Love how HP basically TOTALLY avoids answering the question of astronomical cost and horrendous efficiency. Are we sure HP executives aren't politicians?
Israeli loobies , nothing good
@@fbbinoire201Annnd here's the anti semite... Always at least one hiding somewhere.
@@yairweinberg1647 anti-semite? you are fool if you think critizising zionists are following judaism , if you critisize the Vatican that doesnt mean you are anti-christian,learn first some basics about this issue and then make judgements
the politicians are payed to by these corporations lol
@@fbbinoire201 Bringing up Israel on a video which has nothing to do with it. Yeah you’re an anti semite alright…
Another trick they use is to add color ink into black and white printing, so you may be printing a bunch of text and then suddenly "you are out of cyan" - they say that the printer doesn't have "true" black ink and that it is more of a grey so that it can make darker shades of other colors for color printing, but in reality it just means that the non-black ink is used up way faster, because you need more of it to mix into a color to make it darker than if you used black ink and you need more of it along with some color ink to create black too. If they used real black ink, you could use less of the ink more spread out and it'd produce exactly the same colors.
they say they need to do this because adding cyan to black toner creates a "truer black" color, but then if that's the case, they should have added more cyan to the black toner.
Yes, but at least with HP you can disable that "option" in the settings, so it only uses the black ink when printing in black and white.
@@presidentkiller Fun fact about HP - they've started to make it so their new printer/scanner combos require ink to scan.
@@StreakyBaconMan Really? Thank goodness mine is from 2015 before they even thought about the ink subscription nonsense. I will die the day that thing dies on me and I can't find another one like it. 😐
"Environmental sustainability." Me: *Buying a large plastic bag with another 4 plastic bags inside it, each of which containing a plastic-wrapped plastic cartridge with a few drops of ink.* Mhmm.
Even if you don’t print, the ink runs out.
Yes ,its always happening when you buy printer with cardridge
printer do need to do a clean cycle otherwise the inkhead get clog up and stop working
mhm thats why i always take them out
It dries up
I just find out there is ways to clean clogged ink
How to do stonks:
1. Buy a printer
2. Take the ink
3. Sell the printer ink
4. Buy more printers
Edit: but that’s just a theory, A BREAD THEORY
and you can also sell the printer with no ink for a couple extra bucks
*STONKS*
*STONKS*
Dave N you ever went on the internet
Bread theory
I bought a refill kit on Amazon and been using it for about a year. It cost $20. I’ve printed lots of colorful pictures on glossy paper and they look great. Just make sure you NEVER install the provided software because they track your ink usage.
Thanks for this video you certainly have highlighted the issue well.
"Hurry up, I need to print this important document for my boss"
"You are low on magenta"
"Wha-? I'm not eve-"
"You are low on magenta"
"WHAT? I'M NOT EVEN PRINTING ANYTHING WITH MAGENTA! IT'S BASICALLY JUST BLACK!"
*_"You are low on magenta"_*
I *DESPISE* when this happens
Ahhh pain
That doesn't happen in India. We can get a Hp Printer to print black and white even if color ink has run out.
Not so fun fact: certain printer would intentionally add a tiny bit of magenta or cyan ink into every black print; they say it makes it "more black" though really it just drain your ink faster.
You have to mix it. There is no black ink in standard printers. The dark color is called key (thats why it called CMYK) and is just a dark grey. Otherwise it wouldnt be possible to mix it with the other colors to create darker shades
I love how schools claim to be going “green”. They aren’t going green! They are just transferring the cost of printing over to us!
Yup
nobody is going green you fool, get that thought out of your ass
Are there intermediary steps places can take to show they are concerned? sure? but everyone still drives to work every day and trust me sweety, its not the carbon, its the concrete
stfu, they use much larger toner cartridges that are cheaper and refillable
What’s to stop someone from buying a brand new $70 printer, using the ink up then scraping it for parts and buying another one. If it costs $120 to make then wouldn’t you be able to get back a significant quantity of the money you spent to buy the printer
they're going green .... on their bank accounts
I switched to an Epson Eco Tank for my printing business and I went and bought another for daily use with standard ink. I love love love how they handle ink refills. Basically, the ink sits in a reservoir and you just fill it with a bottle. The printer can't tell if it's Epson ink or third-party ink and it's great!
There should be a nationwide protest against these companies along with taxes.
I hope there is
Sounds like a free mobile game with microtransaction to be honest.
Ikr I hate that shit
You mean pay to play and pay to win
@@realcartoongirl Like Fallout 76?
Force microtransaction to be exact
real cartoon girl Pay to play games are mostly better than free online game. Pay to win existed mostly free online game. So not really make sense
“Printer ink is so expensive”
*squeezes the ink out of the cartridge*
Shelby Ryan yeet
The ink costs less than a dollar to make, they just jack up that price ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Screw the price
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HKH Plays [Roblox]😅
Did anyone by chance get to see this video on printer ink from more than a year ago?
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I am starting to believe that HP actually stands for "High Priced"
ChatGPT helpedme with some ideas:
Harbinger Petroleum
Hazardous Plastics
Hypocrisy Power
Heavy Polluters
Harsh Profiteers
Haste Pharmaceuticals
Hostile Petrochemicals
Hollow Promoters
Horde Pesticides
Heartless Pollutants
Hazardous Printworks
Hostile Pigment
Harbinger Press & Ink
Hypocrisy Printing
Heavy Pollutant
Hollow Print
Harsh Printer
Haste Ink
Heartless Printing
Horde of Polluted
@@carlossebastian7071now thats just Emotional Damage
That this is even legal is mind-blowing. Forcibly disabling an ink cartridge when it is half full should be a crime.
Imagine a world with universal shaped cartridges that all printers were designed around...
@Andrés oh come on! You honestly think taking down a corrupt business model is more important than bombing brown people in Syria??
@@TH-camAIbot apparently bombing innocent people is more important
@@TheNamesArif of course! Gotta make sure we bomb those 3rd world countries
EU please listen to this wise man
HP would collapse!
Finding out that cartridges today have less ink than they did back in the day confirms my suspicions on how printer ink seemingly doesn't last long these days. I now know why.
most people i know simply dont participate in this scam
Just another example of how Millennials are at a disadvantage compared to their previous generations.
Many things have gone this way. I recall when nicad cordless drills hit the market. I had a Ryobi 7.2v that would work all day long. Just before lithium batteries made their debute, the quality of new nicads was a mere joke on capacity of their earliest versions. Manufacturers are always looking for a way to squeeze another few cents out of the consumer, without the consumer noticing. When was the last time you bought a half gallon tub of ice cream? Take a look at the volume of how much is really in there.
@@kermitdaphrodge8346 depends on which millennials. The oldest millennials are 4 or 5 years younger than me. They would've experienced what Gen-X and older had experienced to a degree.
@@ElementofKindness Yeah, there used to be a time when a company would pride itself with its product's high quality and use that as a way to get repeat business. Now it's planned obsolescence and corner cutting that they depend on to get repeat business.
I remember the pain caused after finishing a painstaking paper the night before school, trying to print it and getting an error message saying "low cyan" and being unable to print.
I bought HP515 few years ago, still printing well WITHOUT an ink replacement.
We should be buying more of those genuine infinite-ink printers.
1:16 i like this guy, straight to the point: GREED
1:12 .
I do
My teacher once told me the computer industry is filled with people with top notch genuises. Unfortunately they use their genius to scam and rip people off of their hard earned money.
the top notch geniuses are not the ones taking these decisions. Corporate =/= R&D
As a software engineer I would like nothing more than making the end product as affordable as possible sadly the ceo working above me needs to make money for shareholders
So that's why they call a place, where costumers get quoted 1000$ to replace the whole mainboard in their laptop, because it has a single bad chip, the genius bar.
@@jp-vega top notch geniuses are actually the ones to come up with ideas and yess, scams. Decision to is up to the corporate, i agree.
@Mr. Gang Banger warning long post!
I disagree, without their million dollar ideas being brought to reality by the real innovators, the "people above you" would be nobody.
It's just that they're in the position they're in because they're either lucky or know how to say/do the right things to make sales.
But most inventors don't care about starting a business and wasting time on marketing, they just want to do their job solving new problems while someone else does the job of running the business. So in the end everyone gets what they want, until the corporations become too successful that they start going corrupt from the inside.
Great video!
Thank you for this.
*How to profit:*
Step 1: Order an printer.
Step 2: Take out the ink and sell it for 5$ less than original price
Step 3: Sell The printer
Step 4: Repeat untill you're a millionaire.
The inks that came with printer are setup inks which have very less inks then then normal inks so its a very bad idea
Many new printers come with new printer cartridges and toners only available in new printers and contain very small amounts that last a short time - forcing you to buy new ones soon after purchase.
New printer came with test cartridge with that you can print 30 pages Lol
@@PySnek LASER printers are way different than ink jet printers. This video even touched on the subject.
Genious
The whole “R&D” that HP is referring to is their research into: how much further can I keep milking the clients
Sounds about right
can't deny, was a sexy reply from HP
So be fair, that is HP's business model throughout their entire manufacturing and services divisions.
My God, this video hit home haha. I've become addicted to watching these videos from business insider.
I bought a Brother printer which has a refillable casing which doesn’t use cartridges. Just buy the refills and top them up. Quite a thoughtful company amidst all these greed.
Printing companies = EA
EA Sports, It's In The Grave.
@@Omar-em7rl 😂
#EA's model
🙌👏🙌👏🙌👏🙌👏🙌
Even worse than EA.
Coming to the comments section and learning about the eco tank will probably save me thousands over the years
?
It will. I've been using the eco tank for years and saved a ton on ink. Print quality is great too
th-cam.com/video/sMIl4TA7wYU/w-d-xo.html
Epson L series. Have you ever seen that?
I think they're saving the environment, because of their decisions I email everything instead of printing it out
I actually rate my printer and the ink, we have had the printer for about a year or so, the printing is really high quality, and because instead of the normal 3 ml cartridges, it uses a bottle of ink, yes it’s expensive, but we have not brought one more ink bottle in one year, and believe me, we print a lot (by the way, the liquid isn’t even halfway there)
You have mixed up. Either talk about cartridges or ink tanks.
Ive been asking this shit for years. I have the HP Envy 4520 - that ink was so expensive, i stsrted ording it from china directly.
Nice idea
@@anshuman6243 Yeah.. I actually can pay more but i didnt understand why
You should sign up for HP Instant Ink. It's a lot cheaper then paying for ink each time. Free ink for 3$ a month
@@patrickkostrzewa9213 Its not free though lol
Kenny Peagler its basically free compared to what you would've paid if you bought the cartridges normally
"...Environmental sustainability."
Yeah I'll believe that statement when I can buy a litre of printer ink for 20 euros.
And each cartridge wastes tons of plastic
Actually you can buy a liter of printer ink for 20 Euros.
Just it's complicated to use it.
@@SemT1Nope, just different spelling variations of the English language. I had to look up ‘liter’ to double check you meant ‘litre’.
Get a printer that uses ink bottles, I bought the epson et2027 and that one uses ink bottles. The bottles are like 30-40 dollars for the four bottles what contain 65 ml of ink!!!!! The printer is about 250 dollars, and the bottles were included with the printer. If you want a printer with the ink bottles, just get the epson printers!
@@SemT1 no
Really valuable report. Cost of printing toner and ink are skyrocketing.
For most of my limited needs, black & white laser printer is great. $28 cad for a cartridge to print about 1500 pages of printed text. For color photographs, I order them online from local Walmart. Ready usually next day and fairly cheep. This is just a bit of research before you get sucked into buying cheep ink jet printer. I just had 36 pictures of 8"x10" done and bill was around $50 cad. But this was for the first time in many years. One thing I love though is a laminator with 5 mil full size pouches for many "cheat sheets" for either music theory or shortcuts for windows and many programs ... just do not laminate an official documents! lol I think they are unofficial than...
I swear they milk the octopus by hand
More like raped the octopus & our wallets
@@kaizenomnibiz5383 *laughs in Japanese*
@@luicha6404 *laughs in whale*
this comment is genius
I AM THE OCTOPUS!
Insider:HP,why are you producing ink for so expensive?
HP:Our ink is the best,we are trying to make it better.
Insider:????
It's just Corporate speak for : We don't wanna answer your question so we'll just bullshit
ask a Photographer and most will point you towards an Espon for quality...
R&D for what? R&D on milking more consumer money? When there isn't anything inferior about the current existing ink.
@@cybermechid9181 No, Espon
lol typical answer of greedy corporations
A little over a year ago I bought an ink tank multifunction printer. Costed me 180€. A year later I've printed almost 4 500 sheet packs front and back and perhaps half of that had colours. I still have 1/4 black 1/2 magenta cyan and yellow left. By the time the ink runs out I'll be saving money 💵
I bought a Brother laser printer in 2012 and it still is going strong, after 12 years. No more dried up ink cartridges. For a person that doesn't need to print anything often, a laser is more than sufficient in quality of print and the toner doesn't dry up, it's dry powder. I used to curse ink jets and bubble jets because when I did need to print after a couple months, the cartridges little jet holes would be plugged up and dried out. Couldn't print even though I might have only used them once or twice. If you print every day or at least twice a week, inkjets are okay. But I I only need to print things every month or two or even less.
Buy epson printer, they have refillabe bottles of ink, costs around 10 euro a bottle.. Its cheap as hell, or there's multi color laser printers..
I have had mine for well over a year and I'm still using the ink that came with my eco tank. And they gave us two lots of ink
I can confirm it, mine had been working for two years without having annoying problems.
I love my Epson EcoTank!
Super messy tho
Coldheartz not really. They only fit where they‘re supposed to be and they are spill proof
Am I the only one questioning why homie wasnt wearing gloves while messing with ink?
I bet he was questioning it days later while still trying to get the ink out of his skin...
@@Cheesymuff97 right it would take forever to get that ink off let alone the damage it could do from absorbing into the blood stream.
Was wondering the whole time
Apparently he runs out of money for buying gloves cause he already spends them for the ink cartridge.
I never use gloves when replace inks
It has been forever since I used my all-in-one printer to print. Whenever someone told me to print a document, I'd always plead to stay using the digital copies instead.
My printer does that shit where it doesn't print if one of the colors is low. 🙄
It also has a sensor where it reads at what level the ink is at and tells me to replace it even tho there's still some ink left in the cartridge.
I started taping over the viewport of the ink cartridge to the ink level to trick the printer that it's "full" just so I get every drop of ink from that ink cartridge used.
Next:
Sell a gun for $30 but a bullet cost $100 each.
Sell a car for $500 but gasoline cost $100/liter.
Door-to-Door Hentai Salesman
I would like to invest in your business good sir what’s the price?
That literally happens in my country lol.
Bullet price is fair enough. Stops people at bullet than at hospital bill.
John Deer.
Well I'll make my own bullet once I know how to make it
its cheaper to go to art school and buy paint and paint each image your self then buy this ink
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Ur welcome
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I can tell you spent a lot more on getting an English degree just to write this comment.
@@lemon5501 lol
Now you have 420 likes so...
Some companies have designed the cartridge such that it is extremely difficult to refill if it had run out of ink completely. In these cases, it is best to keep topping up the ink now and then, and then reset the cartridge chip when the chip falsely informs the printer that it has run dry based upon its calculations.
why would they leave us a method to reset the cartridge chips?
I contributed in making toner, in Alsace, France, for the Japanese company Ricoh. I had never seen and have not seen since a better organized factory. And so clean that a hospital may not even compete. The parc around it, always well-kept. And the Japanese superiors were always extremely polite and desirous to make sure the French staff were happy about the working conditions. The salary was a bit better than elsewhere too. Ricoh has my trust. Good products. I worked there as a temporary worker, then l started English lessons to become an English teacher and ended up opening a food company (very small, but l make ends meet, l am happy... but a bit worried as the covid has almost ruined me and now business is not as l wish. I have not given myself a salary for months, but hope is possible).
I used to work for Lexmark, and when I questioned the high prices of ink and toner, which ounce by ounce are more expensive than Chanel #5, they said that that was the business model. Lexmark was remanufacturing its own cartridges and the production cost was 1/5 of sale price. Basically that is highway robbery. I was an insider and I know the costs.
Man imagine studying for finals instead of learning about printer ink
Yeah... I think it's the opposite well at least for me
Well Ihave a graphic design class so this is good information
One year after... The same applies on me it's nostalgic.. This would never end
I run a business and I tell my staff to ask me for paper before they print. I want a damn good reason for wanting to print and not do things digitally . Myself, I don't print anything other than when a government office wants something printed. I even fill in and sign contracts digitally
You can select to use grayscale printing in printing preferences.
They really put a microchip in the ink cartridges 😩 just make it cheaper so we stop buying third party stuff 😭😭😭
The microchip also has the expiry date; you cannot use a cartridge past its due date
If a printer manufacturer makes ink cheaper then they would have to increase the cost of the printer.
And if people perceive the printer as "too expensive" they won't even purchase it, let alone the ink.
Imagine looking at every brand of a simple, small printer for ~$99 and then the same looking printer of another brand for $300? Without knowing the cost of the consumable (ink), most would go for the cheaper brands.
Unless most or all manufacturers change, one won't take the risk.
I'm not against your comment because ink prices are ridiculous. Imagine buying a computer for $300 but paying $500 for the mouse and keyboard. Same story.
@@janami-dharmam lol
They use the "cheap printer, expensive ink" strategy because consumers are dumb and look at product price without checking cost of operation. Same reason why people get "free" phones with a carrier deal (basically a credit)
Brother printers cost 3x+ as much as a "typical" printer but you can get 50ml ink set for 10$. Also ink refill takes couple seconds. Open refill tank, pour ink in, close.
Epson don't do that. Their EcoTank printers uses no electronics for ink status at all. You have to manually look at the tanks to see when you need refill. They are all shown in front of the printers. Impossible to trick anyone. On top of it, they are 50 times cheaper to print photo with.
When I bought my laptop it came with a free HP printer. When school started I had a lot of things to print out. The ink ran out about 1 month and 1/2 to 2 month in. I thought it was because I printed a few pictures of my friend for his birthday so I bought another set of cartridge and that I would only print for school related things (texts, documents, etc.) BUT it still ran out incredibly quick.
Thinking it was just too much of an inconvenience, I decided to buy another printer. I bought an Epson printer for 8,000 pesos (155.95 USD). 2 years later and I'm still using the free ink. I only bought 1 refill bottle (black) but there's still some ink left in the bottle. The bottle costs about 250-270 pesos (4.87-5.26 USD). To this day, I only used the first bar/level of my free ink which is crazy because it's nearing it's third year since I bought it with the printer.
saki train I have an epson eco tank printer too, had it over a year and still using the ink that came with it as they gave us two sets of ink.
Yup me too
@@masoncampbell971 same
Really? Wow that's actually super useful information since I've been thinking about getting a printer as soon as I have the money saved up, that printer with such lasting ink is seriously something to consider in the long run! To think I was looking at only the cheap ones, like the hp you mentioned when it would actually end up costing more. It's something I never knew about before since I've never owned a printer before but it makes alot of sense to pay more up front and save money down the road than the other way around!
Epson printers are really nice, the cartilage of printers from other brands I used gets clogged easily, but my Epson one never have this problem
On my current model Brother colour laser no firmware update could stop the use of compatible cartridges as the cartridges have no chip, it's a mechanical means of detecting toner life.
As for Inkjet having better print quality than Laser, for photos yes but for text lasers are far superior, creating much sharper/cleaner output.
I have seen some inkjet printers with large ink reservoirs, this is the way.
“It’s a free ride, but you have to pay to get of the elephant!” - somebody
3D printing film is literally cheaper
now let's print with filament
Yes
Honestly... you may as well print thin plastic pages.
because of competition, its universal.
Solution: 3D print your own ink cartridges 👍🏻
"The cheaper the printer, the more expensive consumable"
Omg this is so true when I bought HP printer. When the ink runs out, I must buy the catridge and it cost almost the price of the printer itself! So, I bought Epson. They had printer with external ink tank. It was more expensive than HP, but their ink prices is way cheaper.
I can confirm external ink tanks are a blessing, and they're something EPSON actually had to adopt from informal competitors lmao. I remember taking my first printers to a non-official shop to be modded after purchasing them years ago: the external system had a chipset of its own so it fools the printer into reading ink levels that were always full or filled halfway, and they would also reset the internal counter in the printer every now and then, even rolling back firmware updates when it was needed.
@@TheDragShot Ah yes, I used to have Canon printer with modded external ink tank. It was my first printer. In fact, modded printers with external ink tank is quite common in my country. This shown that these companies' greed are across the world.
I have a HP inktank. Works as the same principal. You fill it up with first or 3rd party bottles. 20 dollars for all types of ink and then it prints out about 10,000 pages!
I am using continuous ink, the one with its ink outside the printer and has a tube. 1 usd can already buy 2-3 bottles of 100ml ink (in the Phils). Only maintenance is expensive but if properly taken care of, it can go long way.
Most people hate when they need to print a black and white text document but printer won't print because "it run out of yellow ink"
You can set the printer to only use blank or only use colour cartridge. Or of course to use both.
4:40 "When customers purchase HP, they are reducing plastic waste" - how? It's rather the opposite. Having to regularly replace cartridges creates plastic waste.
They meant that the old cartridge is supposed to be returned to HP. New carts that have run out of ink can be refilled, then resold, several times before the head wears out.
@@q-_-p.d-_-b What about the entire printer ??
@DerpyDoge Because buying a new one is cheaper than buying new cartridges.
@@q-_-p.d-_-b
but at the same time, it doesn't make sense why it's still expensive when they can reduce new parts and lower the sale costs.
Yeah, i know. The biggest difference between OEM ink and ebay ink refills is that OEM ink doesnt fade, and the blacks are darker and they don't smear when it gets wet. OEM's have a monopoly bc they have a proprietary formula, and they spent alot of money on r&d, so thats one reason why it cost an arm and a leg. Thats why I use cheap ebay ink refill kits. I bought mines a couple years ago for $12 and still have alot of ink left. Ofc I don''t really care if it fades or smears, i can alway reprint it. If you have the right printer, you can even refill the carts at Costco while you shop.
I can print with any color if black is empty with my old printer. I love it.
Nice video quality!
I used to refill cartridges when I worked at Walgreens. It involved pushing needles into the cartridges and filling them up. Was significantly cheaper than buying new ones. Printer companies constantly change cartridge types to make older ones outdated. They also started putting ceramic plugs into the cartridges so you couldn’t refill them. I also think the company that made the refilling machine was sued on a constant basis so eventually they just gave up and we stopped providing the services after they stop making refills.
This stuff is more expensive than Espresso's monthly subscription!!
Printer ink is around $75,000 per gallon. The amount of "useable" ink in a cartridge is anywhere from half to one sixth of the stated amount on the cartridge.
Anyone remember that class action lawsuits with Canon printers where their printer stopped working after the warranty was up?
This is why I use crayons for all my important color documents
Faxx
@@supremeneon9757 why was I looking at a video about printer ink over a year ago? I don't even own a printer...
@@fractalflux1120 Same. But hey, a year later and I’m still doing the same thing.
@@fractalflux1120 idk man it happened sometimes i will prob forgot commenting on your comment
Apple: those suckers buy a new phone every year
Printers: Hold my ink cartilages 😂
At least the phones get better every year
The ink seems to get worse 😂
@@rajanrao Even Macs are less overpriced then this bs ink.
@@hajimehinata5854 IKR, inks more expensive than *HUMAN* blood...
*cartridge
Cartilages...
This is why I do all my printing on the school printers, cheaper and the final product is a better quality then a home printer.
Im a former HP printer retail assistant here in the Philippines and it seems cartridges are cheaper also the tank type inks
The anxiety level that that guy touching the ink bare handed gave me...
Snowflake, hopefully you have recovered from the gut wrenching scene.
@@BobSmith-mc7uq Youre acting like youre the toughest guy on the planet. Also your mother needs to take away your xbox. Youve been playing too much cod
@@aimohsin1380 But I don't quite understand whats so anxiety inducing about that......?
@@retrogamer2503 ink is hard to get off from your hands, when you touch ink, say goodbye to your hands for like a day or something
@@aimohsin1380 Yeah obviously, but it's not really that big of a deal really.........unless the guy was joking which I think he is..........cuz it's not that bad.
Thanks! Now i can be the guy with annoying facts that no one ask for
Thats me everywhere
_“Ink catridges are expensive!”_
*every user who use Epson:*
_“Catridge what…?”_
Bless *Epson* and their ink tank; economical and still works just fine.
Yes epson ink is like legit cheaper and print way more pages than that lf hp and cannon.
I have epson l380 for 3 years + and just have to ink it like 3 times with black refill when printing with highest quality possible and it has printed over 4000 pages.
I actually bought three printers in about two years because it was cheaper to buy them than to buy new cartridges, I saved up and switched to a more expensive tank printer and It save me so much money... (I still have the funtional but inkless printers).
Just get an Epson EcoTank and say goodbye to the scam. That's what I use tp prints my pictures and using special photographic paper it looks amazing
What is the speciality of ecotank models?
Cheaper ink cartridges?
youtube KILLER they use bottles of ink and are much cheaper than cartridges
Me to just got an epson eco tank and love it.
I love mine but I notice I have to keep printing because if I don’t the colors get all weird
JR channel Can’t we just print stuff in the library????
Knowing this makes me feel even more satisfaction in having found a trusted salesman downtown that refills those cartridges for a waaaay more reasonable price
what a chad
Those refills costs more than original Epson EcoTank bottles. LOL. You are getting screwed.
On top of it, Epson Ink is color accurate.
When printers started disabling themselves because they were "low" (usually not actually low) on a single color, I stopped buying. I switched to a laser printer years ago, and have never looked back. It's faster, it's cheaper to run, and the ink never dries out from sitting too long.
R&D was really the best excuse they could come up with? Basic color home printers look no better now than they did twenty years ago. I'm confident there is little to no R&D going on in that category.
I had an HP printer when I was in college. After the ink ran out, I wanted to buy a cartridge-type ink for it. I was surprised at how expensive it was (++++thinking that I have a bad experience with HP, my printer's always broken though). I bought a new printer which is EPSON and it is a tank-type printer. It is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more worth of my money.