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!

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Explains?

[Anonymous Coward]

Explains why I get daily spam about toner, but none at all for booze!

I <hic /> don' know what yer takin' 'bout. <hic /> I get those spams alla time.

Open Source Solution?

[pjdepasq]

Isn't there some type of Open Source Solution for this problem? Shouldn't there be one? We need to get a group together and create an Open Source printer. Then we need a similar ink solution helping to drive down the prices.

What's with the mods??

[Atario]

Hang on just a gol-durn minute here!

"mao che minh (611166)" points out that this story is a rapid-fire dupe, and gets a +5, Informative. I say the same thing (albeit in a more smartassed way) -- and even go to the trouble of self-deprecating as "obvious" -- and get a -1, Troll?? What am I trolling for, complete apathy?

I was expecting a +2, Funny, or, at worst, 0, Redundant. Are mod points being passed out in Cracker Jacks these days, or what?

(Now watch as the original modders also mod down this complaint against them.)

In Soviet France.

[XSforMe]

Bottled water is more expensive than wine.... Crab, what a great place to go out for a party!

Re:Market Forces

[RatBastard]

If you're going to write BS that makes you come off as a pretentious blowhard, you should at least use correct metaphors

What the hell are you talking about?