Ink More Expensive Than Champagne

laing writes "According to this story, ink for home printers is now seven times more expensive than vintage champagne.Ink in a typical replacement cartridge costs about £1.70 per millilitre, compared with 1985 Dom Perignon at 23p per millilitre." Explains why I get daily spam about toner, but none at all for booze!

Comments

Reassignment of terms.

[Ignorant Aardvark]

Ink costs more than champagne? What?! That's not the natural order of things. To correct this problem, the French must immediately start drinking printer ink and printing with champagne. That should kill a few problems with one stone (sorry for the mixed metaphor). To clear up the resulting confusion we will call printer ink "Freedom Champagne" and champagne, "printer ink 2: full-speed".

Re:Reassignment of terms.

[Uart]

what will really blow your mind is when you realize that gasoline is cheaper than bottled water...

Re:Reassignment of terms.

[Enraged_jawa]

"Evian" spelled backwards is "Naive" .. the French knew all along

Re:Reassignment of terms.

[dcmeserve]

Historically homo-sapiens always had the need to carry around something. Whether it was a rock, a spear, sword, etc;...

[Ooog walks into cave]

Bogg: Hi, Ooog! I see you have your rock with you.

Ooog: Yeah, I know, it's kinda heavy, but, well, you know, ya gotta carry something...

Bogg: Oh, I know! Believe me!

[Bogg picks up his rock]

Bogg: I've had this sucker for 3 days now. It really fills the void left when I threw my last rock into the river...

Ooog: What'd you do that for, anyways?

Bogg: Oh, well, you know, gotta throw something...

Ooog: Oh yeah, I hear ya!

Boog: Hey, can you believe they're charging three squirrels for a good rock nowadays?

Ooog: Oh, man, that sucks! That's even more than a good clay pot -- those are 2 squirrels, maybe 2 and a half max!

Bogg: Yeah, man, why are there so many idiots who would pay so much just for a rock?!

Ooog: Well, ya know, gotta carry something...

Bogg: Oh, yeah, I hear ya!

And the buzz is better

[Lane.exe]

Plus, the rad high you get from sipping ink completely blows away that bubbly kind of drunk you get when you pound the Christobal.

On the other hand...

[Raindance]

People are taking this so negatively; just revel in the fact that champaign is so cheap!

Slashdot is too UK-centric

[bdesham]

But seriously -- anyone mind providing conversions to USD?

Re:Slashdot is too UK-centric

[dinog]

USD $2.84

Thanks to : http://www.xe.com/ucc/

So a bottle of Lexmark ink would cost USD 2132.00. Unfortunately, it doesn't taste nearly as good, and goes rather poorly with lobster. The initial bouquet is bad, the nose just aweful, and the horrid taste sticks to you tongue like, well, ink.

Dean G.

Re:Slashdot is too UK-centric

[mickwd]

"Unfortunately, it doesn't taste nearly as good, and goes rather poorly with lobster."

Since it's ink, perhaps it would go rather better with squid ?

Re:Slashdot is too UK-centric

[mdielmann]

Unfortunately, it doesn't taste nearly as good, and goes rather poorly with lobster.

Well, yes, when you use the blue ink. If you try the red ink, I'm sure you'll be much happier.

Bootlegging

[retto]

Does this mean people are going to start bootlegging ink? Will the great crime families ditch the drug trade for the undergound ink market? I fear the day our great cities are brought under the heel of the ink barons.

Ink

[nother_nix_hacker]

I tend to find the 86' Lexmark ink has a fruity taste which can be complimeted only by a good mature cheese and a decent toner cartrige.

Re:Ink

[nick_davison]

Personally, I prefer fava beans and a nice Epson. Thththththththth.

lucky drunks

[abe_is_fun]

Even though ink is more expensive than fine champagne, and therefore is better than fine champagne (proof by induction), you shouldn't drink it.

It would stain your teeth some ugly color like #006666, and you would never get a date and you would die cold and alone, a pitiful 30 year old virgin.

Instead, drink beer -- it's been helping ugly people get laid for over 200 years!

Other shocking comparisons..

[L. VeGas]

Pound for pound...

Poodles cost more than horses!

Crack whores cost more than fatties!

Eardrums cost more than eyeballs!

Get Smart

[Shadow Wrought]

Chief: This desk runs entirely on ink.

Max: But chief, that's incredible. Do you realize what this could mean to our energy supply?

Chief: Unfortunately its an extremely rare type of ink that can only be found in the Middle East.

Yes I'm paraphrasing, but that's the first thing that came to mind;-)

Newsflash: Apples and Oranges vary in price!

[NotQuiteReal]

Is this one of those tests?

Champagne is to printer ink as:

a) Automobiles are to shoes.
b) Doorknobs are to bedpans.
c) Beach sand is to integrated circuits.

The answer is c because integrated circuits are computer related and this is slashdot...

Worms more expensive than steak!

[Anonymous Coward]

That's nothing. You should see the cost of worms. This week, 250 grams of mail-order worms cost me 4UKP (say $6). So much for the urban legends about worms going into McBurgers. I bet they just use cheap filler ingredients instead, like ground up cow.

Re:You don't get any for booze because...

[dasmegabyte]

Which is why we need a bureau of Printer Ink, Natural Viagra Supplements, Genital Enlargement, Nigerian Banks and Obscure Domain Name Registrars.

Re:Price of bottling

[suwain_2]

Mmmmm. Nothing like a good bottle of gasoline. ;)

What the hell have I been doing?

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

I need to stop printing and start drinking. Its "cheaper". Yeah honney. I was thinking about printing out the manual for your new stairmaster, but I wanted to save money so I drank a case of cris and then put it together.

Re:Hardcore dupe action

[dark-br]

New /. slogan: "News that mattered. Stuff for the amnesiac." ;)

Ink piracy

[Decimal Dave]

These high prices are just a result of rampant piracy in the ink industry. College students are especially guilty of downloading ink from Kazaa and sharing it with their friends.

I guess it's a good thing

[cyclist1200]

that your printer doesn't require a magnum of ink!