Saturday, January 23, 2010

Raising a stink over printer ink

Raising a stink over printer ink
an article in the LA Times...By Steve Everly

"Officials who regulate weights and measures for states are preparing for a showdown with manufacturers over how ink cartridges are labeled."

"Most printer manufacturers, except Kodak, sell the printers at low cost and then earn big profits on the cartridges. The American Consumer Institute in a study in late 2008 said that consumers were being lured into a bad deal by buying the lower-cost printers and then overpaying an estimated $6 billion per year for the cartridges."

read the entire article here: Raising a stink over printer ink

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