{"id":2483,"date":"2004-05-12T18:12:35","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T08:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/13\/why-bother-buying-ink\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:39:11","slug":"why-bother-buying-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/12\/why-bother-buying-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Why bother buying ink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11101,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.epson.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/Store\\\/support\\\/supDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&amp;oid=14417&amp;infoType=Overview&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8000,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.officedepot.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310041431\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.officedepot.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.officedepot.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 08:43:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 14:48:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 14:48:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11102,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00006F2W4\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311124047\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00006F2W4\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00006F2W4\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11103,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.epson.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/Store\\\/consumer\\\/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&amp;oid=36033903&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.epson.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/Store\\\/consumer\\\/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11104,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0000B3ALY\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311123957\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0000B3ALY\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0000B3ALY\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I bought ink for my printer today &#8212; an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epson.com\/cgi-bin\/Store\/support\/supDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&amp;oid=14417&amp;infoType=Overview\" title=\"Epson Stylus C82\">Epson Stylus C82<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ink &#8212; one cartridge each of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black &#8212; cost me \\$70 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officedepot.com\/\" title=\"Office Depot\">Office Depot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The printer, which isn&#8217;t even sold by Epson anymore, can be picked up on Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B00006F2W4\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Epson Stylus C82\">starting at \\$39<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The current comparable printer from Epson &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epson.com\/cgi-bin\/Store\/consumer\/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&amp;oid=36033903\" title=\"Epson Stylus C84\">Stylus C84<\/a> &#8212; can be picked up on Amazon (complete with ink) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B0000B3ALY\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Epson Stylus C84\">for about \\$84<\/a>, only about \\$14 more than what I paid for the ink.<\/p>\n<p>Why even bother buying ink anymore? Seems to me that it&#8217;s practically more cost effective to just buy a printer and use it until the ink runs out, junk it, and buy a new one. Go for a printer that&#8217;s a little bit cheaper than the C84, and I&#8217;d be willing to bet that it <em>is<\/em> cheaper to treat them as a &#8220;disposable&#8221; item.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just flat-out ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Masters of War&#8221; by Dylan, Bob from the album <em>Freewheelin&#8217; Bob Dylan, The<\/em> (1963, 4:34).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why even bother buying ink anymore? Seems to me that it&#8217;s practically more cost effective to just buy a printer and use it until the ink runs out, junk it, and buy a new one. Go for a cheaper printer, and I&#8217;d be willing to bet that it is cheaper to treat them as a &#8216;disposable&#8217; item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}