Inkjet printers wasting 20-64% of your ink

[thewayne]

Basically there's usually plenty of ink left when it reports a cartridge is low. Epsons clocked in with the lowest amount remaining, 20%, a Kodak printer was apparently down only 36% when it reports itself low! These results need to be taken with a wee pinch of salt as Epson commissioned the study.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070618-study-inkjet-printers-are-filthy-lying-thieves.html

Comments

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

That's why I keep using my printer when it starts giving me those messages until it just stops printing. Well, until I start getting crappy print quality, at least. I don't print much at home, so it's been giving me a low ink message for about three months now, but it's still going.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

That's what you need to do! Ink is HP's most profitable line of business. I wonder what it represents in gross revenue.