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Re: [OM] Has anyone figured out how to defeat the ink price monster?

Subject: Re: [OM] Has anyone figured out how to defeat the ink price monster?
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:41:17 -0500
Take a look here.  This is where I buy Epson inks.

http://www.atlex.com/hp_index.htm

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:27 AM
Subject: [OM] Has anyone figured out how to defeat the ink price monster?


> When I have a lot of prints to do I send them off for conventional 
> processing.  But I still do make some prints with my two HP printers 
> which, despite being relatively low cost units, have 5 ink colors and do 
> a nice job printing on HP photo paper.  It gives me good color balance 
> with no balancing hassles.
> 
> Since I have a small laser printer for non-photo printing I don't do 
> much printing with the ink jets.  While I've never been happy with the 
> price of ink it hasn't been particularly upsetting since I don't use a 
> great deal of it.  But yesterday I went to Staples to get a replacement 
> for the large black cartridge (an HP 564XL) and I was greeted by the 
> following notice on the package... "NEW lower price, smaller size.  Up 
> to 2X more pages".
> 
> Well, they didn't change the product name. XL is supposed to mean "extra 
> large".  They're claiming that the XL delivers twice the page count of 
> the standard cartridge but it used to be much more than that.  I'd have 
> preferred that they just increase the price.  Now I have to change 
> cartridges more frequently with more time and expense in acquiring them.
> 
> How do I fight back?  Third party ink suppliers and profiling of ink and 
> papers?
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
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