On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Richard England wrote: >Ric Moore wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 12:28 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: >>>> Because you'd be pissed off at spending $50 for a mere 10 mls of liquid >>>> inside a quite large plastic box that's mostly empty. Wondering, why in >>>> hell's name, can't they use a larger cartridge and really fill it with >>>> lots of ink. >>>> >>>> Of course *we* know why - maximising profits. They could, quite easily, >>>> make bigger cartridges that hold more ink, and not charge as much. >>> >>> So refill them. It isn't very hard and for HP cartridges its cut my ink >>> costs dramatically. >> >> Alan, I worked in the Chemical Industry as a Field Representative, doing >> lots of technical stuff like titrations, electrical work, A to D >> conversions to control peristaltic computerized pumps, lotsa techie >> hands-on stuff for 26 years and taught others as well. >> >> I tried filling a cartridge once. Paid good money for a kit with all >> kinds little widgets included to fill the cartridge with ink. What a >> friggin' mess! Maybe the instructions needed to be dumbed down a bit, >> but I got more ink on me than I got into the cartridge. <chuckles> I use >> the HP 92 cartridge for black and it just seems to be lighter in weight >> each time I get one, and fewer pages are printed per cartridge. If the >> thieving bastards had to put the fluid oz of product on the label, at >> least I'd know when they decide to reduce the amount of the ink in the >> cartridge and then I could bitch about it. I think I'll just call my >> Congressman and start a "movement", like Arlo Guthrie did! <grins> Ric > >Set this up on a web page and let me know where I can sign your petition and > Call MY congressmen. I think a movement on this is long past due. > >So who's in charge of this, FDA, probably not, FTC, don't know. Consumer > Protection?. Maybe that is the problem, no regulatory jurisdiction.... > >~~R I'm fur it. +1 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Death is nature's way of saying `Howdy'.
