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Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining
sandbagger writes: Printer ink is expensive, so it's important that when a printer tells you a cartridge is running dry, the cartridge is actually running dry. Unfortunately, that's not always the case. The folks over at Bellevue Fine Art in Seattle recently decided to find out exactly how much ink their high-end Epson 9900 printer wastes. A professional grade 700ml cartridge will have 120-150ml remaining when "empty," and a 350ml cartidge will have 60-80ml remaining when "empty." For this studio, the difference amounts to hundreds of dollars worth of ink every month.
Whenever there isn't some significant force acting to prevent scams like this, then scams like this are the default. My peers grin condescendingly and act like I am being cynical when I talk about stuff like this. And yet.....I am just stating the facts.
Scams like this thrive precisely because of the naive trust that people of ordinary intelligence have in others.
Just assume that all business partners want to rip you off until you have evidence to the contrary, and assume that all those in power are lying about everything, and abusing their power (regardless of evidence to the contrary), and you won't be too far off.
Some days, I am ashamed to be a human. But then I remember that all morally superior beings are fictional, and accept that cold comfort such as it is.