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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: "bill pearce" <billcpearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:36:46 -0500
looks like the same price as B&H. I own a fractional interest in two oil 
wells, and we don't make near the kind of money that ink suppliers and/or 
manufacturers do, and their prices don't fluctuate down, only up.

It's a racket.

bill Pearce
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Has anyone figured out how to defeat the ink price 
monster?


> Interesting.  The part number I bought at Staples yesterday is not
> listed there but the one I used to buy is.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 3/19/2011 12:41 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Take a look here.  This is where I buy Epson inks.
>>
>> http://www.atlex.com/hp_index.htm
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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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