ink by the gallon

[John Butto]

The price of Gas versus Printer Ink

All these examples do NOT imply that gasoline is cheap; it just illustrates how outrageous some prices are.

You will be really shocked by the last one!
(At least, I was)
Compared with Gasoline......

Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 ... $10.32 per gallon
Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ....$9.52 per gallon
Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 .... $10.17 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 ... $10.00 per gallon

Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 ... $178.13 per gallon
Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 ... $123.20 per gallon
Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 ... $25.42 per gallon
Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 ...$84.48 per gallon

Here’s a REAL KICKER...
Evian water 9 oz $1.49...$21.19 per gallon! $21.19 for WATER and the buyers don't even know the source

Ever wonder why printers are so cheap?
So they have you hooked for the ink.
Someone calculated the cost of the ink at...
(You won't believe it...but it is true...)

$5,200 a gal. (five thousand two hundred dollars)​

 

[ChicagoGraphics]

How did you come up with the figure of $5,200 a gal.?

 

[bayshorecreations]

There are 3 785.41178 ml in a gallon.
it would take 17 220ml carts to make a gallon.
By my calculations that would be $1173.00 per gallon

 

[John Butto]

passing it along

Someone calculated the cost of the ink at...
I think it was John Someone, he works for the Obama Administration.

 

[bayshorecreations]

Actually you would need a little bit more than that but I dont feel like doing the math.

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

white out used to be the most expensive before printer ink. Perhaps it should become our new currency?

 

[bayshorecreations]

http://123refills.net/cic/product.php?id=bulk-ink-1gallon

$100.00 per gallon!

 

[petesign]

... and I just poured out my waste tank.. damn it!

 

[bayshorecreations]

You could probably use your waste ink to fill your desktop inkjets black carts with.
Hmmm now you have me thinking...

 

[shakey0818]

Thats amazing.Iam more concerned with the price of Captian Morgan cause with that i will forget about the prices of all the other gallons of stuff.

 

[petesign]

wouldn't it be nice if the capping station could catch ink from each color head and recycle it?

 

[MikePro]

must be in reference to the largest number he could find for desktop printer ink cartridges.

 

[phototec]

Recycle ink?

wouldn't it be nice if the capping station could catch ink from each color head and recycle it?

Hey there is next great idea, develop a add-on gizmo, that will collect the separate ink colors and divert them to different waste tanks, so you could recycle each color printer ink.

Man, the person who could come up with this device and market it would make a fortune!

 

[bayshorecreations]

Better yet, have the waste ink get re-routed right back into the cartridges!

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

Better yet, have the waste ink get re-routed right back into the cartridges!

It may be time to beef up security, your life might well be in danger making suggestions like that.

 

[saktrnch]

Sublimation ink

Here's the link to a recent thread about sublimation ink.