I’m sure I saw on a TV quiz show once that the most expensive liquid on the planet per litre was in printer ink cartridges.  When you consider how much you pay for a few millilitres this is definitely believable.
Well it looks like Kodak is finally waking up to the fact that users no longer need to pay these unreasonable charges because it’s just as easy to email a picture to a friend now as it is to display it on a TV, by introducing a new range of inkjet printers with cartridges a third of the price.
I wonder if it’s too little too late. I remember when I got my all-in-one printer back in 2003. I used to print a lot of pictures as I couldn’t email them back then as hardly any of my friends had broadband. Friends even used to bring round their memory cards to print photos.
Now I hardly use my printer to even print documents. In fact, I don’t even leave my printer on any more and it’s pushed right into the corner of my desk so that it doesn’t get in the way. I probably print around 5 pages a month, if that.
Do you think the printer is going to go the way of the fax machine and be yet another piece of office equipment that is left behind by technology?
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