Printer,Cartridge,Price,Fixing computer Printer Cartridge Price Fixing
Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc ----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a
Permission is granted for the above article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes are made and the byline, copyright, and theresource box below is included. ----------------------------------------------------------Printer Cartridge Price FixingBy Stephen BucaroPrinters are one of the biggest rip-offs in computingtoday. Companies like Hewlett Packard (HP) and Cannonthrow together a bucket of cheap plastic parts and chargeyou $150.00 for it. Then, they price gouge you for the inkcartridges.CNET.com analyzed the cost for inkjet printing andreported that the costs ranged from 14 cents to $1.32 perpage. If it costs 21 cents per page and you print only anaverage of two pages per day, the annual cost of ink wouldbe more than the cost of the printer.The ink cartridge for a low end HP printer, containingonly one tiny ounce of ink, costs a mind boggling $30.00!Thats price gouging, and all printer manufacturers aredoing it. Thats called PRICE FIXING and its illegal. Toadd to the rip-off, some of them put all the colors intoone cartridge. Then you have to buy a new cartridge whenonly one color runs out, wasting the remaining ink.This price gouging makes it impossible for businesses likedirect marketing or mail order to survive. The only wayyou can protect yourself is to refill your own cartridges.Most people feel that it is too difficult or too messy torefill cartridges. But for the cost of a new cartridge,you can refill your old one 12 times (per color).If your business on average prints 200 pages per day,refilling cartridges could bring your costs down from$15,330.00 to $1,277.50 per year. This is based on 21 centsper page, your actual cost per page could me much higher.With this kind of savings, you can afford to screw up afew cartridges while learning. If you spill some ink,you can afford to re-carpet the entire house. A good place to get inkjet refill kits is MIS Associateshttp://www.inksupply.com. They provide detailed onlinewell-illustrated step-by-step instructions. The same ideaapplies to laser printer toner cartridges. Can you affordto pay $400.00 every time your HP 1200se toner cartridgeruns dry? A good place to get toner refill kits ishttp://www.tonerrefillkits.com. They also provide detailedonline well-illustrated step-by-step instructions. You canrefill the 1200se cartridge for only $12.95! (after onetime $12.95 purchase of tool kit.)Printers are one of the biggest rip-offs in computingtoday. I dont know why the FTC is not investigatingillegal ink cartridge price fixing by printermanufacturers. For now, the way to protect yourself is tolearn how to refill your own cartridges.----------------------------------------------------------Resource Box:Copyright(C)2002 Bucaro TecHelp. To learn how to maintainyour computer and use it more effectively to design a Website and make money on the Web visithttp://bucarotechelp.comTo subscribe to Bucaro TecHelp Newsletter Send a blankemail to [email protected]==========================================================
Printer,Cartridge,Price,Fixing